Volume 38.3/2024 [open]

2024-01-17

Special issue –  Divine – masculine/feminine/other: engendering religious theories, practices, and expressions

Submission deadline (extended): 15 September, 2024 

(The journal accepts submissions on a rolling basis for the Varia, Book Review, and Interview sections)

Guest editors: Guilherme Borges Pires, Isabel Gomes de Almeida e Isabel Araújo Branco (CHAM-Centro de Humanidades/FCSH-Universidade NOVA de Lisboa)

 

This special issue aims to bring together contributions focusing on the intersection between two core concepts - gender and religious phenomena - in different historical, geographical and social contexts, integrating perspectives and insights from different humanities and social sciences fields. 

“Gender" is here broadly understood as the set of associations, attitudes and continually changing practices attributed by human social groups to individuals based on their sexualised bodies. As for “religion”, the concept employed in this issue comprises not only belief systems and theological constructs but also popular religious practices and manifestations.

Intersecting these two realities makes it possible to identify case studies that unfold various practices, theories and expressions. The editors invite scholars to submit unpublished articles dealing with gender and religion in one (or more) of the following theoretical-analytical axes: 

  • Creator deity’s sexual/gender ambiguity
  • Conceptualisations of divine gender identity and expressions
  • Genderised understandings in belief systems and/or theological elaborations
  • Gender dimension in cultic practices
  • Religious communities’ socialisation(s) from a gender perspective
  • Gender roles in popular religiosity
  • Gender and the relationship with the transcendent
  • Conceptions of post mortem life from a gender perspective
  • Gender and violence in religious systems/practices
  • Bodies at the intersection of gender and religion
  • Queer theology
  • Religiously inspired feminisms
  • Male/female/other religious iconography
  • Artistic and/or literary products focussing on the intersection between gender and religion/religious