IARG

Women, Religions and Gender  Relations

Turin, 9-11 November 2016

University of Turin – Campus Luigi Einaudi – Lungo Dora Siena 100 – Sala lauree blu grande | blu piccola

You can find the programme in pdf here.

Languages: On the 9th the language of the conference will be Italian. On the 10th and 11th it will be English.

9   NOVEMBRE

MATTINO: 9.30-13.00

09.30 – 10.30: Saluti delle istituzioni e apertura lavori

• Stefania Palmisano (Università di Torino)
• Alberta Giorgi (Università di Coimbra)

10.30 – 11.00: Coffee break

11.00 – 12.45: Tavola Rotonda – Donne, Religioni e Relazioni di Genere

• Elisabetta Ruspini (Università di Milano-Bicocca): Genere e Religioni in Italia. Prove di istituzionalizzazione.
• Luigi Berzano (Università di Torino): Ministeri indisponibili per le donne nella Chiesa cattolica
• Franco Garelli (Università di Torino): La Religiosità dei giovani: differenze di genere
• Ilaria Zuanazzi (Università di Torino): L’anima femminile della Chiesa
• Paola Donadi (Università di Urbino): Il femminile tra funzione materna o virginale

12.45 – 14.00 Buffet lunch

POMERIGGIO: 14.00 – 18.00

14.00 -16.00 Panel 1

Per una religiosità (al) femminile: esperienza spirituale, immaginari alternativi ed empowerment

Chair: Roberta Pibiri (Università di Torino)

• Emily Pierini (Università Americana di Roma): The Glastonbury Experience: Gender and Embodiment in the GoddessTemple
• Erika Bernacchi (Università di Firenze): Beyond God the Father: Goddess spirituality as a new form of women’s empowerment?
• Eleonora Graziani (Università di Coimbra): Chi è Maria Maddalena? Riflessioni sul Vangelo secondo Maria
• Marta Scaratti (University di Genova): Il pianto rituale nell’area mediterranea: le figure femminili del cordoglio

16.00-16.30: break

16.30 -18.30 Panel 2

Identità religiosa e cambiamenti di status

Chair: Nicola Pannofino (Università di Torino)

• Carla Bertolo (Università di Padova): Spiritualità incorporate e percorsi di soggettivizzazione
• Maria Alessandra Bianchi (Università di Aix-en-Provence): Questioni di genere nel percorso di conversione di alcuni attori “occidentali” al buddismo dzogcen
• Monica Chilese (Osservatorio Socio-Religioso Triveneto): Modelli di coniugalità diaconale della Chiesa cattolica. Riflessioni da un’indagine sul diaconato permanente
• Mara Tognetti Bordogna (Università Milano-Bicocca) e Alberto Mascena (Università di Bergamo): Unioni miste e radicalizzazione religiosa delle donne

 

10 NOVEMBER

MORNING: 9.30-13:00

9.00 – 10.30 Keynote Speech

Kristin Aune (Coventry University): Representations of Religion on a British feminist webzine

Introduced by Maria Chiara Giorda (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento)

10.30 – 11.00: Coffee Break

11.00 – 13.00 | Parallel Sessions

Panel 3

Mysticism, Spiritualism, Politheism

Chair: Marianna Zanetta (Università di Torino)

• William Pawlett (University of Wolverhampton): The Threat of Mysticism: Angela of Foligno, Teresa of Avila and Georges Bataille
• Daniela Calvo (Università di Rio de Janeiro): Women’s role in Candomblé’s history and ritual
• Florence Pasche Guignard (University of Fribourg) and Giulia Pedrucci (University of Bologna): Motherhood/s and Polytheisms: Epistemological and Methodological. Reflections on the Study of Religions, Gender, and Women
• Jemelka Martin and ŠTOFANÍK Jakub (Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences): Silesian folk spiritualism across gender, class and nationalities: the case of Terézie Černá

Panel 4

Gender and Islam

Chair: Chiara Maritato (Università di Torino)

• Caterina Peroni (University of Padua) and Elisa Rapetti (University of Milan): To ban or not to ban? The feminist dilemma regarding Burkini
• Lieke Schrijvers (Utrecht University): Being Dutch, become other. Representing women’s conversion to Islam in the Netherlands in van Hagelslag naar Halal
• Johanna Lems (University of Madrid): In search of authority. Young Muslim women and religious knowledge in Madrid
• Laura Ferrero (University of Turin): Gendering Islam, gendering Migration. Egyptian women and their role in a local

13.00-14:00 Buffet lunch

AFTERNOON: 14.00 – 18.30

14.00 – 16.00 | Parallel Sessions

Panel 5

Gender, Religion and Migration

Chair: Alessandro Gusman (Università di Torino)

• Francesca Scrinzi (University of Glasgow): Women and gender in a Latin American migrant Evangelical church (Italy)
• Alison Halford (Coventry University): Does the movement ‘Ordain Women’ represent the voice of Mormon Women? American exceptionalism and contested territory in European Mormon
• Carlo Nardella (University of Milan): The sacralization of differences. Gender and Sexuality in a Filippino Catholic celebration
• Line Nyhagen (University of Loughborough): Gender Equality, Women’s Movements and Feminism as Contested Categories: A Case Study of Christian and Muslim women in Europe

Panel 6 – Roundtable

Exploring and expanding (the multifarious aspects of) an archetypal role

Chair: Gianni Pellegrini (Università di Torino)

• Daniela Bevilacqua (University of SOAS): The Motherization of Hindu female ascetics
• Carola Erika Lorea (International Institute of Asian Studies Leiden): Pregnant males, barren mothers and religious transvestism: transcending one’s gender in Bengali heterodox lineages
• Romina Rossi (University of Rome Sapienza): A Psychoanalytical Perspective on the Institutionalization of Maternity in Hindu India
• Paolo E. Rosati (University of Rome Sapienza): The mother Goddess Kāmākhyā: matrilinear tribes’ influences on a tantric Cutl
• Letizia Trinco, (University of Rome Sapienza): On “failure-at-motherhood”, vengeful spirits and shrines: some folk Hinduism strategies to cope with inauspiciousness
• Consuelo Pintus (University of Milan): Silence or struggle? A new interpretation of Dalit women’s identity through the role of the mother.

16.00 -16.30 Coffee break

16.30 -18.30 | IARG meeting

 

11 NOVEMBER

MORNING: 9.00 – 13.30

 09.00 – 11.00 | Parallel Sessions

Panel 7

Womanhood and Manhood in Religions

Chair: Luca Ozzano  (University of Turin)

• Maria Caterina Mortillaro (University of Milano-Bicocca) Women and the Sacred Dance. Hindu and Christian Perspectives on the female dancing body
• Daan Oostveen (University of Amsterdam): Multiple religious belonging and hybrid religiosity from the perspective of gender and post-colonial studies
• Darai Saddik (Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University) and Mohamed Bouazzi (University of Casablanca): The impact of cultural factors on men’s and women’s religiosity: Moroccan university students as a case study
• Katarzyna Leszczyńska (AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow): Womanhood as a normative ideal and womanhood as social practice. Strategies of being women in the Roman Catholic Church organizations in various cultural and institutional contexts

Panel 8

Changing roles of women in religious organizations

Chair: Alberta Giorgi (University of Coimbra)

• Fran Handrik (University of Birmingham): The Changing role of Amish Women
• Stefanie Sinclair (The Open University): Gender, religion and historiography: Regina Jonas, ‘almost-forgotten’ first female rabbi
• Dominika Gruziel (The European University Institute): The alteration of the XIX century Catholic female laity’s religious expression – an investigation of laywomen’s involvement in pious associations
• Sara Bonfanti (University of Bergamo): Jostling a priestly office? The ambivalence of religious ministry for South Asian diaspora women in Italy

11:00 – 11:30 Break

11.30 – 13.00 Panel 9

Religion and Female Sexuality

Chair: Lia Zola (University of Turin)

• Nella Van den Brandt (Utrecht University) Rethinking Emancipation and Religious Traditions
• Sylwia Urbańska (University of Warsaw): The forgotten connection: Religion, women’s global migration, and gender revolution
• Jelle Wiering (University of Groningen): There is a Sexular Body: Introducing a Material Approach to The Secular
• An Van Raemdonck (Ghent University): Egyptian women making sense of Female Genital Cutting (FGC): an Islamicate practice

13:00-13:30 Concluding remarks and publication plans

Chair: Alberta Giorgi (University of Coimbra)

Women, Religions and Gender Relations – (University of Turin) 9-11 November 2016

Interest in the subject of “Women, Religions and Gender Relations” has intensified especially from the mid-1990s in Europe – more recently in Italy – spreading beyond the borders of the sociology of religion and gender studies. Specifically, attention has been focussed on three critical points that we shall address:

First, the study of transformations of religious expression within traditional religions and, at the same time, the analysis of contemporary forms of spirituality demonstrate a “feminine specificity” which raises various questions and highlights the necessity to dedicate more attention to the different religious experiences of men and women and to re-interpret critically the basic analytical categories of the sociology of religion;

Secondly, comparison with non-Christian traditions reveals the importance of a critical reading of women’s role in various forms of religion and spirituality;

Finally, the development of a gender lens in religion allows analysis of the variegated constructions of the male and the female in different religious traditions.

The call is designed to offer a platform to scholars to present their research on the topic and exchange their ideas on research findings at an international level. The topics are centred on the following themes:

• The (often ambivalent) role of women in the administration of the sacred
• Female religious agency
• The relationship between body and (public and private) space, not forgetting the dimensions of chastity and sexuality
• Data, sources and analytical tools necessary for the study of the complex relationship between feminism and women in religions
• The ever-changing role of women in a social context of hybridization processes and recognition of various religious traditions
• Female engagement in religious (official/unofficial) institutions

Designed as a space of dialogue and encounter, the conference promotes original models of interpretation based on different contexts and experiences. It strongly welcomes contributions based on empirical researches (both single cases studies or larger analyses), envisaging an interdisciplinary perspective and employing ethnographic and comparative methodologies.

The conference will host the annual meeting of the International Association for the study of Religion and Gender (IARG) – everybody’s welcome to join.

Keynote speaker: Kristin Aune
Deadline for abstracts (350 words) – 15 September 2016. To: [email protected]
Decisions will be notified: 30 September 2016
Scientific Committee: Contemporary Religions and Faiths in Transition (CRAFT): Enrico Comba, Stefania Palmisano, Luca Ozzano, Roberta Ricucci, Roberto Scalon
Organizing Committee: Mariachiara Giorda, Alberta Giorgi, Alessandro Gusman, Chiara Maritato, Stefania Palmisano.

Fees:
IARG members: 20€
PhD students: 30€
Postdocs and Temporary Research Staff: 35€
Full Professors: 50€

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Published

 
Religion, Equalities, and Inequalities

Dawn Llewellyn and Sonya Sharma

2016
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
Religion, Gender and Citizenship
Women of Faith, Gender Equality and Feminism

Line Nyhagen and Beatrice Halsaa

2016

 
 
 

Veiled threats
Representing the Muslim woman in public policy discourses

Naaz Rashid

2016

 
 

 

Public Religion and the Politics of Homosexuality in Africa

Editors: Adriaan van Klinken and Ezra Chitando

2016

 
 
 

 

Christianity and Controversies over Homosexuality in Contemporary Africa

Editors: Ezra Chitando and Adriaan van Klinken

2016

 
 

 

Haredi Masculinities between the Yeshiva, the Army, Work and Politics
The Sage, the Warrior and the Entrepreneur

Yohai Hakak

2016

 

 

Does God Make the Man?
Media, Religion, and the Crisis of Masculinity

Stewart M. Hoover and Curtis D. Coats

2015

 
 
 
 

 

Pious Practice and Secular Constraints:
Women in the Islamic Revival in Europe

Jeanette S. Jouili

2015

 

Forthcoming November 2016

 

The Bloomsbury Reader in Religion, Sexuality and Gender

Editors: Donald L. Boisvert and Carly Daniel-Hughes

 

 

The Making of a Salafi Muslim Woman
Paths to Conversion

Anabel Inge

 

Critical Theory in the Humanities: Resonances of the Work of Judith Butler

From April 5-7, 2017, the interdisciplinary Research Institute for the Humanities CLUE+ at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam organises a three-day international conference on resonances of the work of the critical theorist and philosopher Judith Butler, who shall deliver a keynote address and participate in the conference.

Please see the Call for Papers. Abstracts can be submitted before October 1, 2016.

We look forward to welcoming you in Amsterdam.

The International Academy of Practical Theology Conference CFP

The IAPT biennial conference in 2017 is located in Oslo, in the peaceful and wealthy Nordic welfare state.  How are we to do practical theology when the everyday – and the global – are part of reforming processes, both spiritual, social and cultural? With 500 years of Reformation as an important Nordic context, are there reforming experiences and values to learn – and unlearn? The topic Reforming: Space, body, and politics guides all aspects of the conference program:  the keynotes, roundtables and plenaries as well as the paper sessions.  While we call for the exploration and critical discussion of these three notions as a set of key concepts for practical theology in this moment of time, we are also interested in their relevance for how practical theology as a discipline might be reformed.

Conference themes: http://www.tf.uio.no/english/research/iapt-conference/about/

We invite abstracts of approx. 150 words. The abstracts should be submitted by  September 1, and we will respond to the proposals by October 1. You can submit your proposal through our website: http://www.tf.uio.no/english/research/iapt-conference/paper-submission/

 

Catherine of Siena College

online courses exploring gender, justice, religion, and theology

http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/Catherine-of-Siena/

Catherine of Siena College was established in 2007 by a group of scholars concerned about the marginalization and oppression of women across the world. They wished to offer courses to support those working for gender justice. As the founders recognized, facilitating the full contribution and leadership of women is not only crucial for the wellbeing of women. It is also vital for the flourishing of men, children, societies, nations, and religious communities. In 2015, Catherine of Siena College became part of the portfolio of the University of Roehampton.

Today, we aim to

1. Support women and men as they seek to become aware of, understand and analyze injustices that people experience in personal, public, and religious spheres as a result of their gender identity, and to acquire skills necessary for the struggle for gender justice.
2. Offer cutting edge, research-based courses on topics related to gender studies, justice, religion, and theology.
3. Foster ecumenical and interfaith connections through partnerships with churches and religious communities for the purposes of education and awareness-raising on issues relating to gender and social justice.

The college takes its name from the fourteenth century Christian mystic, Catherine of Siena. Born in Italy in 1347, she defied the conventions of her day through her theological writing and political activism. She wrote letters to bishops and popes urging an end to ecclesial schism, and her “Dialogue” is considered one of the most impressive theological writings of her time.