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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 10d

2/2 and how texts from Hindu, Jain, Buddhist, and Sikh religious traditions offer new acumens. These broaden existing gender theoretical frameworks, deepening our understanding of gender through reflections on religiosity, epistemology, and ethics.

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 10d

1/2 This week's article spotlight is Veena R. Howard's "Broadening Horizons: Hindu and Jain Texts and Debates on Gender Fluidity and Gender Hybridity"!

In this #OpenAccess article from our 10 year anniversary issue in 2021, Howard highlights the importance of reading questions of gender creatively

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 24d

2/2 on interviews about women-centred spiritualities in the Spanish context. García Jouve proposes the term 'gender eclecticism' to approach the diverse notions about 'gender' that appear in some women-centred practitioners' testimonies.

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 24d

1/2 This week, we're spotlighting Alex García Jouve's article "Gender Eclecticism: Beyond Gender Essentialism and Gender Constructivism in Discourses and Practices among Women-Centred Spiritualities Practitioners in Spain"!

The article explores the debate around 'gender essentialism', focusing...

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · Aug 31

2/2 book review editors, directly at [email protected].

For some inspiration, check out Daniel N. Gullota's book review of Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's "A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism":
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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · Aug 31

1/2 Are you interested in contributing to one of our upcoming issues? Then why not consider submitting a book review to us!

Although we have a range of books available, you can also review a book not on our list. If you're interested, reach out to Lucy Spoliar and Jing-Yi Magraw, our...

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · Aug 26

3/3 Scripture can be a source of both harm and healing, the article returns to the biblical books of Song of Songs and Psalms to recover and reclaim alternate and unhappy, gendered and sexual scripts.

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · Aug 26

2/3 in Australian Evangelical Faith Communities".

They argue that the use of Scripture to promote gender 'complementary' models of marriage as necessary for lived Christianity and human flourishing maintains the dominance of this heteronormative script in evangelical communities. Recognising that

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · Aug 26

1/3 How does the promise of married happiness operate as a disciplinary device within Australian evangelicalism?

Rosie Clare Shorter and Erin Martine Hutton explore this question in their article "‘Your Unhappiness Is Sinful’: Using a Happiness-via-Marriage Script to Regulate Gender and Sexuality

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NISIS @nisis-school.bsky.social · Jul 18

Looking for the next academic event that’s right up your alley? Take a look at the NISIS Autumn School at UvA on October 29-31!
Our insightful speakers include Dr. Zhinia Noorian, who discusses female voices in Persian lyric homoeroticism.
To answer the CfP see: nisis.sites.uu.nl/2025/02/19/n...

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · Aug 17

2/2 Soliman highlights both the artists' feeling disappointed by the mainstream public, and an agitational orientation as these artists intend to offer explicitly articulated alternative self-representations that target the mainstream public.

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · Aug 17

1/2 How can German Muslim women's artistic self-representation and their public engagement be seen as counterpublics?

Asmaa Soliman explores this question in this week's #OpenAccess article spotlight: "Muslim Women’s Self-Representation in Art: Offering Alternative Counterpublics"...

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · Jun 29

2/2 examines Napolitano's insights into this intersection of Catholicism and migration. Moreover, Napolitano's book explores how these themes can highlight the lived experiences and affects of bodies in different spaces.

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · Jun 29

1/2 What relation does Rome's Catholicism have with transnational migration? What is the impact of Catholic practitioners migrating from the Americas to Rome?

Kayla E. Green's review of Valentina Napolitano's "Migrant Hearts & the Atlantic Return: Transnationalism and the Roman Catholic Church"...

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · Jun 22

2/2 child that accompanies its mother.

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · Jun 22

1/2 This week's article spotlight is Peter-Ben Smit's "Masculinity and the ‘Holy Child’ of the Birhen sa Balintawak"!

Smit's article explores the Birhen sa Balintawak, the first indigenous representation of the ‘Virgin-with-child’ in the Philippines, and the construction of the masculinity of the..

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · Jun 8

Our latest issue is now out 🎉 !

Volume 15, Issue 2 is titled "Special Section: Anti-genderism in Eastern Europe: A Question of Religion?", edited by Regina Elsner.

Discover more in Regina Elsner's #OpenAccess introduction to this issue below:

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · Jun 8

2/2 Izzo's book, a social history of the YWCA and the Maryknoll Sisters, explores the relationship between women’s liberation, the Social Gospel, US foreign policy, liberation theology, and women’s Christian identities.

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · Jun 8

1/2 What place does Christianity have in the history of the US women's movement?

Eleanor Tiplady Higgs's book review of "Liberal Christianity and Women’s Global Activism: The YWCA of the USA and the Maryknoll Sisters" (by Amanda L. Izzo) examines how Izzo offers insight into this question....

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · May 15

2/2 how Casselberry answers these questions. The review also highlights the importance of the author's detailed analysis of forms of labour and the 'complicated authority' women may acquire through this.

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · May 15

1/2 How do women shape 'holy lives' whilst navigating patriarchal power structures? How is 'holy Black female personhood' produced in religious communities?

Brenda Bartelink's review of @jscasselberry.bsky.social's "The Labor of Faith. Gender and Power in Black Apostolic Pentecostalism" explores..

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · May 1

2/2 male Hindu gurus called Shankaracharyas. Through narrative performance, Mataji reshapes the boundaries of religious leadership to affirm new possibilities for female authority.

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · May 1

1/2 This #ThrowbackThursday's article is Antoinette E. DeNapoli's "A Female Shankaracharya? The Alternative Authority of a Feminist Hindu Guru in India"!

This #OpenAccess article examines how the guru Trikal Bhavanta Saraswati ("Mataji") constructs women's alternative authority in a lineage of...

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · Apr 22

2/2 interviews to explore the role that faith plays for women experiencing homelessness in Croatia. By drawing upon these interviews and observations, the authors explore the meanings attributed by these women to their experiences of faith.

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · Apr 22

1/2 How can faith contribute to personal resilience during difficult life events?

Jadranka Rebeka Anić and Lynette Šikić-Mićanović's 2019 #OpenAccess article "… If You Can Turn to God, You Can Turn to Anyone! The Role of Faith among Homeless Women in Croatia" uses participant observation and...

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