Between Piety and Protests: The Impacts of Religions and Fundamentalism and Attacks on Gender - Part II
Language: English
How do sociologists—both scholars and activists—assess these complexities of religion and their relation to gender? This session will seek answers to this question through presentations about the current developments in religions worldwide, their fundamentalist turns, and their relation to attacks on gender rights and practices. Presenters might also consider activism that pushes back against fundamentalism. The session will feature research which examines the intersectional variations in the impacts of religions on gender rights and practices. The focus can be comparative, local and transnational. Papers that use experimental research methodologies to study gender and religion are also welcome.
Presenters may address the following topics or other relevant issues—
- Violence against women and other gender minorities in the context of religion and fundamentalism
- Religious nationalism, fundamentalism and gender
- Religion, fundamentalism and gendered health equity
- Religion-based activism for gender equality
- Religion, religious nationalism, migration and gender
- Methodologies of studying attacks on gender minorities in the context of religion and fundamentalism