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You are warmly invited to the 

Feminist Review Annual Lecture 

and launch of Feminist Review 97 and 98
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Professor Linda Woodhead
Professor of Sociology of Religion, Lancaster University; Director of the
ESRC / AHRC Religion and Society Programme

 'Feminism Re-engaging Religion'

Chaired by Professor Lyn Thomas 
FR Collective member 
Deputy Director ISET, London Metropolitan University 



Thursday 16th June 2011
7pm 
Khalili Lecture Theatre, 
School of Oriental and African Studies


The event is free and open to all and will be followed by a drinks reception.


This Feminist Review public lecture has been organised 
with the collaboration of 
the Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS, and 
ISET (Institute for the Study of European Transformations, London
Metropolitan University).


Feminism Re-engaging Religion 
This paper offers an overview and critical analysis of the changing
relationship between feminism and religion. It shows how second-wave feminism
developed an oppositional stance to religion, in response to the situation of
the time, and in order to create new spaces for feminist thought and
practice. It shows how this stance is now being re-examined, not least
because religiosity has changed shape since the 1980s, with the decline of
the churches and the rise of many new forms of 'tactical' religion. After
exploring the gendered significance of these developments, the paper
concludes with a proposal for a feminist stance towards religion which
neither rejects 'religion' per se, nor reverts to an uncritical embrace of
religion as a force for good. The whole issue provokes an honest appraisal of
feminism's own normative, ethnic, and class commitments.

Linda Woodhead is Professor of Sociology of Religion at Lancaster University
and Director of the ESRC / AHRC Religion and Society programme. She has
written widely on gender, religion and spirituality and on gendering
secularisation theory. Her books include:  A Sociology of Religious Emotion
(with Ole Riis), Oxford University Press, 2010; The Spiritual Revolution: Why
Religion is Giving Way to Spirituality (with Paul Heelas) Blackwell, 2005;
Predicting Religion: Christian, Secular and Alternative Futures (co-edited
with Grace Davie and Paul Heelas) Ashgate, 2003; and Diana: The Making of a
Media Icon (co-edited with Jeffrey Richards and Scott Wilson) I.B.Tauris,
1999.


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