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Call for Papers - Religious Pluralism: Uncovering Gender

Die Eingabefrist für den Call of Papers läuft bis am 28. Februar 2010. Details dazu finden Sie auf der Website oder direkt in diesem Dokument.

Call of papers: To encourage open discussions across diverse disciplines, the conference will be held as a closed seminar. Therefore, we will select 20 outstanding papers for presentation. We expect the participants to be present for the entire conference. The deadline for submitting paper proposals is 28 February 2010.

Konferenzbeschrieb: Following the due course of globalization, transnationalisation and migration, ideas about religious pluralism have been widely diffused within academic circles over the past years. Although studying changing religious realities in terms of pluralism is currently a hot topic in the social sciences and humanities, looking at religious systems with a gender focus is still a relatively new perspective - and a neglected one.

Religion and gender are intertwined but separate concepts: they are (re)constructed and (re)produced in social interaction, implicate normative values, are anchored in institutional arrangements and linked to social hierarchies, and they are also part of subjective identity formations.

In other terms, the issue of the intersections between religion and gender raises a broad range of questions, entails vast political debates and stresses its social and scientific importance at the same time.

Under the title Religious Pluralism: Uncovering Gender, we propose a conference that explores a broad range of phenomena which could be described using these terms. Our main aim is to clarify the intersections between religion and gender: the focus lies on theoretical approaches, methodological implications and possible empirical operationalisations in various disciplines.

Datum der Konferenz: 8. - 10.09.2010

Organisation: Maison d'analyse des processus sociaux.

Verantwortliche Personen: Prof. Dr. Janine Dahinden, Dr. Anne Lavanchy, Dr.Anna-Katharina Höpflinger.

Kontakt: Anna-K. Höpflinger, a.hoepflinger(at)access.uzh.ch.