Women away from the altar! Resistance to the gender equality pressures in the Polish organisations of the Catholic Church in England, Sweden, and Belgium
This article examines the practices that maintain the gender asymmetry in transnational migratory religious organisations, as exemplified by the Polish organisations of the Roman Catholic Church (so-called Polish Catholic Missions). Based on interviews with women and men involved in these structures...
| Published in: | Journal of contemporary religion |
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| Authors: | ; ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Carfax Publ.
2023
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| In: |
Journal of contemporary religion
Year: 2023, Volume: 38, Issue: 2, Pages: 305-324 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
England
/ Swedes
/ Belgium
/ Poles (People)
/ Catholic parish
/ Gender studies
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion CA Christianity KBD Benelux countries KBE Northern Europe; Scandinavia KBF British Isles KDB Roman Catholic Church TK Recent history ZB Sociology |
| Further subjects: | B
Sweden
B Gender Equality B Belgium B Transnationalism B England B Poland B Isomorphism B Catholic Church B Religious organisations B gendered migration |
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| Summary: | This article examines the practices that maintain the gender asymmetry in transnational migratory religious organisations, as exemplified by the Polish organisations of the Roman Catholic Church (so-called Polish Catholic Missions). Based on interviews with women and men involved in these structures as well as on our observations during fieldwork, we reconstruct the gendered division of work in such organisations, with a special focus on differentiation within the area of religious functions. Drawing on integrative theories of gender (especially of Raewyn Connell) and on the new institutionalist understanding of organisations, we investigate how and why these transnational religious bodies resist the normative pressures regarding gender equality stemming from the egalitarian contexts in which they function (England, Belgium, and Sweden). |
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| ISSN: | 1469-9419 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of contemporary religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2022.2110711 |