Transforming Bodies and Religions

Powers and Agencies in Europe
Herausgeber: Berg, Mariecke van den; Wiering, Jelle; Schrijvers, Lieke

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book sheds an interdisciplinary light on â transforming bodiesâ : bodies that have been subjected to, contributed to, or have resisted social transformations within religious or secular contexts in contemporary Europe.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Critical Studies in Religion, Gender and Sexuality
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 378g
• ISBN-13: 9780367559670
• ISBN-10: 0367559676
• Artikelnr.: 64088534

Autorenporträt

Mariecke van den Berg studied Theology (BA) and Gender Studies (RMA) at Utrecht University. She obtained her PhD in Public Administration in 2014 at the University of Twente. She currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at Utrecht University in the project Beyond 'Religion versus Emancipation': Gender and Sexuality in Women's Conversion to Judaism, Christianity and Islam in Contemporary Western Europe, funded by the Netherlands Organisation for scientific Research (NWO). She is assistant managing editor at the open access journal Religion and Gender. Lieke L. Schrijvers is a PhD candidate for a joint doctorate at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University; and the Centre for Research on Culture and Gender at Ghent University. Her current research is a comparative ethnographic study of religion, gender and sexuality among female converts in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim communities in the Netherlands. With this project, she is part of the NWO-funded project Beyond 'Religion versus Emancipation' Gender and Sexuality in Women's Conversion to Judaism, Christianity and Islam in Contemporary Western Europe. Jelle O. Wiering is a cultural anthropologist whose main interest lies in the field of religious studies. He is a lecturer in religious studies and sociology at the university of Groningen and Utrecht University. He recently finished his PhD at the University of Groningen. This project focused on the intersections of religion, secularity, and sexuality in the Netherlands. Previously, he researched Western Buddhists, and Dutch pilgrims traveling to Santiago de Compostela. Anne-Marie Korte is Professor in Religious Studies at Utrecht University. She holds the chair of Religion and Gender, which aims to explore categories of gender, sexuality and diversity when investigating the significance and operations of religion(s) in cultural processes and current social developments. She is currently project leader of the Beyond 'Religion versus Emancipation': Gender and Sexuality in Women's Conversion to Judaism, Christianity and Islam in Contemporary Western Europe, funded by the Netherlands Organisation for scientific Research (NWO), and was the founding director of the journal Religion and Gender. Korte's current research is directed at the role of gender and sexuality in contemporary accusations of blasphemy, and on contemporary miracle stories.

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Transforming Bodies and Religions:
Introduction; Part 1 - Governing Bodies; Introduction to Governing Bodies-
Jelle O. Wiering, An van Raemdonck, Anne-Marie Korte;1 The Secular Body in
the Dutch Field of Sexual Health-Jelle O. Wiering; 2 SRHR, The Liberated
Body and the Primacy of Conscience: Probing Beyond The Secular/Religious
Binary-An van Raemdonck; 3 Blasphemous Popular Art, Queer Debate and the
Religious/Secular Divide.-Anne-Marie Korte; Part 2 - Narrating Bodies;
Introduction to Narrating Bodies-Nella van den Brandt, Mariecke van den
Berg, Megan Milota, Nawal Mustafa, Matthea Westerduin; 4 Negotiating
Difference and Transformation: Women's Stories of Conversion to Judaism and
Islam-Nella van den Brandt; 5 Embodying Transformation: Religious and
Gender Transitions in Jewish Autobiography-Mariecke van den Berg; 6 "The
Richest Material for Moral Reflection": Narrated Bodies and Narrative
Ethics-Megan Milota; 7 Exploring New Vocabularies in Conversations About
Religion, Race, Politics, and Justice-Nawal Mustafa, Matthea Westerduin;
Part 3 - Negotiating Bodies; Introduction to Negotiating Bodies-Maria
Vliek, Rahil Roodsaz, Lieke Schrijvers; 8 (Re)Negotiating Embodiment When
Moving Out of Islam: An Empirical Inquiry into 'A Secular Body'-Maria
Vliek; 9 Vacillating In and Out of Whiteness: Non-Religiosity and Racial
(Dis)identification among the Iranian-Dutch-Rahil Roodsaz; 10 Women Wearing
the Tallit: Tracing Gender, Belonging, and Conversion of New Jewish Women-
Lieke L. Schrijvers; Part 4 - Afterword; Corporate, Corporal, Collective:
Reflections on Gender, Genres, and the Ongoing Troubling of the Categories
of Religion and the Secular-Pamela Klassen