Gender, religion and feminist theologies. Challenges and unifying solutions

This article presents the complex, dynamic, multidimensional interplay between gender, as a major category of analysis, and religion, religious studies and theology, especially feminist theology. In the first part of the article we explain the mechanisms that create the inextricable embeddedness bet...

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Published in:Theology & sexuality
Main Author: Alak, Alina Isac (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group [2020]
In: Theology & sexuality
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Gender studies / Islamic theology / Feminist theology
RelBib Classification:BJ Islam
FD Contextual theology
NBE Anthropology
Further subjects:B Muslima theology
B Theology
B feminist muslim theology
B Religious Studies
B Religion
B Gender
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Summary:This article presents the complex, dynamic, multidimensional interplay between gender, as a major category of analysis, and religion, religious studies and theology, especially feminist theology. In the first part of the article we explain the mechanisms that create the inextricable embeddedness between these two dynamic identitary and social organizing principles: gender and religion. Also, we analyze the manner in which the plural significations and conceptualizations of gender were integrated in feminist debates regarding religious studies and religion and the conflict that still manifests between the study of religion and gender. The second part of the article will concentrate on the manner in which feminist theologians are deconstructing the patriarchal and androcentric translations of religion in a framework characterized by disciplinary fluidity, ambiguity, intersectionality and self-reflexivity. Muslim feminist theologies will serve as a final example of the unifying potential of feminist theologies.
ISSN:1745-5170
Contains:Enthalten in: Theology & sexuality
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2020.1790987