2011 AAG Seattle CFP: Gender and Sexuality in Lived Religion
Session organizers: Betsy Olson (University of Edinburgh) and Peter
Hopkins (Newcastle University)
Linda Woodhead (2007) has critiqued sociology of religion for lagging
behind other fields in ‘taking gender seriously’. In contrast, within
geographies of religion and belief gender has frequently been at the
centre of analysis, from geopolitics to citizenship and from national
identity to personal formation. Markedly less developed are geographers’
explorations of the intersections between religion and sexuality, though
emerging research promises to raise important questions about how we
study the various ways that people 'live' religion.
The purpose of this session is to bring together innovative perspectives
on geographies of religion, gender and sexuality, with a focus on the
consequences for lived religion - the embodied perspectives,
biographies, emotions, and sensations of faith. Papers might address
religious spaces of alternative masculinities and femininities; the
gendered/sexualized experiences of religious spaces or institutions; the
politics or poetics of gendered and sexualized faith; intersecting forms
of marginality; gender, sexuality and the sacred; social justice,
religion and sexuality/gender; love in and through faith; postcolonial
religious projects in gender and sexuality; ethical and methodological
issues in researching gendered and sexualized religious spaces, contexts
and issues.
Please send abstracts of 150-200 words to Betsy Olson
([log in to unmask]) by 13 October.
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