Dear Readers,
Religion and Gender has just published its latest issue at https://www.religionandgender.org/. It includes the special issue 'Religion, Gender, and Body Politics' by Mariecke van den Berg, Kathrine van den Bogert and Anne-Marie Korte; two research articles; and a number of book reviews. We invite you to review the new issue Contents here and visit our web site to review articles and other items of interest.
Thanks for the continuing interest in our work,
Nella van den Brandt
Utrecht University
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Religion and Gender
Vol 7, No 2 (2017): Religion, Gender and Body Politics
Table of Contents
https://www.religionandgender.org/jms/issue/view/582
Articles (open section)
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The Ghosts of Performance Past: Theatre, Gender, Religion and Cultural Memory (147-163)
Abimbola Adelakun
Transgender Identity, The Sex-Reassignment Surgery Fatwās and Islāmic Theology of A Third Gender (164-179)
M Alipour
Guest Editorial
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Religion, Gender, and Body Politics (180-183)
Mariecke van den Berg, Kathrine van den Bogert, Anne-Marie Korte
Articles (special issue)
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Unveiling Muslim Women in Socialist Yugoslavia: The Body Between Socialism, Secularism, and Colonialism (184-203)
Tea Hadziristic
A Time to Mourn, a Time to Dance: Abortion Death Rituals in South Korea (204-223)
SeungGyeong Ji
The Body of Mary: Embodiment and Identity in Modern Apparitions (224-239)
Jill M. Krebs
The Body Politic(s) of the Jezebel Spirit (240-255)
S. Jonathon O'Donnell
Book Reviews
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Review of Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesus, Electric Santería: Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion , New York and Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press 2015, xiv + 282 pp., ISBN 978-0231173162 (256-258)
Louise Autar
Review of Susannah Cornwall (ed.), Intersex, Theology and the Bible: Troubling Bodies in Church, Text and Society , New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, v + 241 pp., ISBN 978-1-137-36615-3 (259-261)
Jenny Daggers
Review of Azza Basarudin, Humanizing the Sacred: Sisters in Islam and the Struggle for Gender Justice in Malaysia , Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2016, 330 pp., ISBN 978-0-295-99531-1 (262-264)
Çağdaş Dedeoğlu
Review of Donna Bowman, Prayer Shawl Ministries and Women’s Theological Imagination , Lanham, MD: Lexington Books 2016, 352 pp., ISBN 978-0-7391-7971-0 (265-267)
Katherine Dugan
Review of Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870 , New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017, 484 pp., ISBN 9780307594907 (268-270)
Daniel N. Gullotta
Review of Wendy Urban-Mead, The Gender of Piety: Family, Faith, and Colonial Rule in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe , Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press 2015, xiv + 324 pp, ISBN 9-780821-421581 (271-273)
Romina Istratii
Review of Erin E. Stiles, Katrina Daly Thompson (eds.), Gendered Lives in the Western Indian Ocean: Islam, Marriage, and Sexuality on the Swahili Coast (Indian Ocean Studies Series), Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press 2015, 406 pp., ISBN-13 978-0-8214-21 (274-277)
Marzia Mauriello
Review of Leah Payne, Gender and Pentecostal Revivalism: Making a Female Ministry in the Early Twentieth Century (CHARIS: Christianity and Renewal—Interdisciplinary Studies), New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. ISBN: 1137494670 (278-280)
Aleksandra Djurić Milovanović
Review of Marion Holmes Katz, Women in the Mosque: A History of Legal Thought and Social Practice , New York: Columbia University Press, 2014, viii + 417 pp., ISBN 978-0-231-16266-1 (281-283)
Ruth Roded
Review of Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Mulki Al-Sharmani and Jana Rumminger, Men in Charge? Rethinking Authority in Muslim Legal Tradition , London: Oneworld Publications 2015, 286 pp., ISBN 978-1-78074-716-3 (284-286)
Diego García Rodríguez
Review of Diane D’Souza, Partners of Zaynab: A Gendered Perspective of Shia Muslim Faith , Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2014, 240 pp., ISBN 9781611173772 (287-289)
Robert Logan Sparks
Review of Jeanette Jouili, Pious Practice and Secular Constraints: Women in the Islamic Revival in Europe , Stanford, California: Stanford University Press 2015, xiii + 258 pp., ISBN: 9780804794664 (290-292)
Nella van den Brandt
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