Global Religious History in Theory and Practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 441-462
Author(s):  
Michael Bergunder
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Religious History ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Central Research ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Empirical Methods ◽  
The Past ◽  
Anthropological Fieldwork ◽  
And Gender

Abstract “Global religious history” derives its name from the German phrase “globale Religionsgeschichte”. This term articulates an approach that aims to be relevant to the whole field of religious studies, and it encompasses theoretical debates, particularly in the areas of postcolonialism and gender studies. Thus, “Global” embodies, acknowledges, and incorporates all prevalent terms of and the parameters for the global constitution of present-day academia and society. “Religious” means that it concerns religious studies. “History” denotes a genealogical critique as the central research interest. Historicization in that sense is not limited to philological research of sources from the past but also relevant to any research based on data from contemporary anthropological fieldwork or other empirical methods. This approach also aims to provide a pertinent influence on research practice, and seeks to circumvent any artificial segregation of theory and practice.

scholarly journals PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH AND GENDER APPROACH

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Irene Zubkova
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Psychological Characteristics ◽  
Feminist Psychology ◽  
The Past ◽  
Psychology Of Women ◽  
And Gender

Over the past 30 years, psychological theory and practice abroad has undergone the most severe criticism and reappraisal than ever before. As an academic discipline, psychology contained distorted facts and pseudoscientific theories about women, supported stereotypical ideas about the abilities and psychological characteristics of women and men. Under the powerful influence of the female movement, feminism, independent areas were identified, which included the psychology of women and men (psychology of women, women's study, men's study, gender studies, feminist psychology) in different volumes and contents.

Intersectionality and its discontents: Intersectionality as traveling theory

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 403-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Salem
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Precise Definition ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Critical Potential ◽  
The Past ◽  
Important Means ◽  
Traveling Theory ◽  
And Gender ◽  
New Phase

‘Intersectionality’ has now become a major feature of feminist scholarly work, despite continued debates surrounding its precise definition. Since the term was coined and the field established in the late 1980s, countless articles, volumes and conferences have grown out of it, heralding a new phase in feminist and gender studies. Over the past few years, however, the growing number of critiques leveled against intersectionality warrants us as feminists to pause and reflect on the trajectory the concept has taken and on the ways in which it has traveled through time and space. Conceptualizing intersectionality as a traveling theory allows for these multiple critiques to be contextualized and addressed. It is argued that the context of the neoliberal academy plays a major role in the ways in which intersectionality has lost much of its critical potential in some of its usages today. It is further suggested that Marxist feminism(s) offers an important means of grounding intersectionality critically and expanding intersectionality’s ability to engage with feminism transnationally.

Introduction

2007 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-105
Author(s):  
KRISTINA HAGSTRÖM STÅHL
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Performance Studies ◽  
Performance Theory ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Critical Step ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
The Past ◽  
To Come ◽  
And Performance ◽  
And Gender

In the past decade and a half, feminism and gender studies have undergone a process of critical self-scrutiny and re-assessment. Presently, the fields of theatre and performance studies are undertaking a similar project of self-evaluation, as evidenced by recent calls to assess the ‘state of the field’ as well as its future directions. Elaine Aston and Geraldine Harrison suggest in their recent co-edited volume, Feminist Futures? Theatre, Performance, Theory, that any attempt to envision the future must begin by examining the present, which in turn entails looking to, and reflecting on, the legacies and remains of the past. In her article for this issue of TRI, ‘A Critical Step to the Side: Performing the Loss of the Mother’, Aston does precisely this, asking, ‘in what ways it might be critically productive to come back to the maternal as a subject for feminism’.

scholarly journals A Woman of Many Parts

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Peggy Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
The People ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Personal Engagement

This article seeks to demonstrate the wide-ranging nature of Professor Ursula King’s research and intellectual interests within the field of religious studies. It highlights her personal engagement not only with issues in science, ecology and religions, Hinduism, education, spirituality, feminist and gender studies on an international stage, but also her involvement dialogically with the people whose work and religious lifeways she has encountered.  It shows a continuing and remarkable vitality and freshness in an arena of interests across both local, personal and global issues.

scholarly journals Evolution of International Peace and Conflict Resolution Studies

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 8-17
Author(s):  
Omar Habibal
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
International Peace ◽  
Military Studies ◽  
Peace And Conflict Studies ◽  
Power Disparity ◽  
Peace And Conflict ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Peace And Conflict Resolution

In this paper review of the International Peace literature, specifically exploring the contemporary trends that function to align International Peace theory and practice with dominant interests. I begin with a critical historical overview of the development of this field, looking at the primary influences that have shaped and continue to impact it. A variation on this, peace studies (irenology), is an interdisciplinary effort aiming at the prevention, de-escalation, and solution of conflicts by peaceful means, thereby seeking "victory" for all parties involved in the conflict. This is in contrast to military studies, which has as its aim on the efficient attainment of victory in conflicts, primarily by violent means to the satisfaction of one or more, but not all, parties involved. Disciplines involved may include philosophy, political science, geography, economics, psychology, sociology, international relations, history, anthropology, religious studies, and gender studies, as well as a variety of others. Relevant sub-disciplines of such fields, such as peace economics, may be regarded as belonging to peace and conflict studies also. This establishes a power disparity between the conflict actors and the conflict resolution theorists/ practitioners, exacerbating the distance between the two groups and privileging the latter.

scholarly journals Rochelle Ruthchild. Natalya Pushkareva – Creator of the Russian School of Gender Studies in History and Ethnology

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 5-9
Author(s):  
Rochelle G. Ruthchild
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Scientific School ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Scientific Biography ◽  
The Past ◽  
Intellectual Identity ◽  
Common Interests ◽  
American Historian ◽  
And Gender

In a brief report by a well-known American historian is analysed the contribution of her Russian colleague Natalya Pushkareva to the creation of a new scientific direction - gender studies in ethnology and in the study of the past. The author substantiates the special role of an individual in the institutionalization of women's and gender studies in Russian historiography, reflects on stages of the scientific biography of Natalya Pushkareva, foundation of a scientific school and her followers, united by common interests and intellectual identity.

scholarly journals (Con)figuring gender in Bible translation: Cultural, translational and gender critical intersections

2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Punt
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Gender Studies ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Bible Translation ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Biblical Translation ◽  
Critical Aspects ◽  
Gender Criticism

The gendered intersection of cultural studies and Bible translation is under acknowledged. Accounting for gender criticism in translation work requires, besides responsible theory and practice of translation, also attention to interwoven gender critical aspects. After a brief investigation of the intersections between biblical, translation and gender studies, translation in a few Pauline texts with bearing on gender and sexuality are investigated.

Political Bodies and a Touch of Pain

2013 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-40
Author(s):  
Matt Sheedy
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Gender Studies ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Body Politics ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
Women's And Gender Studies ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The University ◽  
Women’S And Gender Studies

An interview with Darlene Juschka (cross-appointed Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Religious Studies at the University of Regina), focusing on her 2009 book Political Bodies/Body Politics: The Semiotics of Gender (Equinox Publishing). The conversation ranged from a look at some of the key influences upon her theoretical development to her work on the construction of gender/sex in the Eurowest and its deployment through myth, ritual and sign-symbol, along with applications of this theory to religious studies and her more recent work on the concept of pain.

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