FEMINIST REVIEW ANNUAL PUBLIC LECTURE
by
PROFESSOR LINDA WOODHEAD
16 June, 7pm
Khalili Lecture Theatre
School of Oriental and African Studies
University of London
Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square
London WC1 0XG
**ALL WELCOME - No registration necessary**
FEMINISM RE-ENGAGING RELIGION
The lecture 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.
The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception.
This Feminist Review public lecture has been organised with the
collaboration of SOAS and ISET (Institute for the Study of European
Transformations, London Metropolitan University).
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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