REGENN's 2026 Research Week registration is open! This year's Research Week is from 5-9 January at Dopersduin, Schoorl, and provides the space for those working in religion and gender to share insights and projects. Sign up below! regenn.nl?page_id=690 #ReligiousStudies #Theology #GenderStudies

1/2 How do gatherings in Slovenia's Red Tent movement navigate issues of inclusivity? Polona Sitar's article "Class Privilege and Spiritual Capital: The Case of Feminist-Spiritualist Menstrual Movement the Red Tent in Slovenia" explores how access to these spaces is shaped by economic, cultural and

1/2 CALL FOR PAPERS! On behalf of Rowena Robinson and Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor, we're circulating below the call for papers for "The politics of parenting: Reimagining gender and belief", a provisionally accepted Special Issue of Religion and Gender. This issue will include non-Western and

1/2 We're excited to announce that our latest volume is now out! Volume 15, Issue 3 is a Special Issue on "Religion, Gender and Embodied Politics", edited by Manoela Carpenedo, @albertagiorgi.bsky.social and @jmartinezarino.bsky.social. Featuring case studies about religious traditions across...

1/2 What was the role of women in the 19th century revivalist movement, the French Protestant Réveil? Tianji Ma's book review of Michèle Miller Sigg's "Birthing Revival: Women and Mission in Nineteenth-century France" explores how Sigg traces the evolution of Protestant women’s influence from...

1/2 This week's article spotlight is Veena R. Howard's "Broadening Horizons: Hindu and Jain Texts and Debates on Gender Fluidity and Gender Hybridity"! In this #OpenAccess article from our 10 year anniversary issue in 2021, Howard highlights the importance of reading questions of gender creatively

1/2 This week, we're spotlighting Alex García Jouve's article "Gender Eclecticism: Beyond Gender Essentialism and Gender Constructivism in Discourses and Practices among Women-Centred Spiritualities Practitioners in Spain"! The article explores the debate around 'gender essentialism', focusing...

1/2 Are you interested in contributing to one of our upcoming issues? Then why not consider submitting a book review to us! Although we have a range of books available, you can also review a book not on our list. If you're interested, reach out to Lucy Spoliar and Jing-Yi Magraw, our...

1/3 How does the promise of married happiness operate as a disciplinary device within Australian evangelicalism? Rosie Clare Shorter and Erin Martine Hutton explore this question in their article "‘Your Unhappiness Is Sinful’: Using a Happiness-via-Marriage Script to Regulate Gender and Sexuality

Looking for the next academic event that’s right up your alley? Take a look at the NISIS Autumn School at UvA on October 29-31! Our insightful speakers include Dr. Zhinia Noorian, who discusses female voices in Persian lyric homoeroticism. To answer the CfP see: nisis.sites.uu.nl/2025/02/19/n...

1/2 How can German Muslim women's artistic self-representation and their public engagement be seen as counterpublics? Asmaa Soliman explores this question in this week's #OpenAccess article spotlight: "Muslim Women’s Self-Representation in Art: Offering Alternative Counterpublics"...

1/2 What relation does Rome's Catholicism have with transnational migration? What is the impact of Catholic practitioners migrating from the Americas to Rome? Kayla E. Green's review of Valentina Napolitano's "Migrant Hearts & the Atlantic Return: Transnationalism and the Roman Catholic Church"...

1/2 This week's article spotlight is Peter-Ben Smit's "Masculinity and the ‘Holy Child’ of the Birhen sa Balintawak"! Smit's article explores the Birhen sa Balintawak, the first indigenous representation of the ‘Virgin-with-child’ in the Philippines, and the construction of the masculinity of the..

Our latest issue is now out 🎉 ! Volume 15, Issue 2 is titled "Special Section: Anti-genderism in Eastern Europe: A Question of Religion?", edited by Regina Elsner. Discover more in Regina Elsner's #OpenAccess introduction to this issue below: brill.com/view/journal... #Religion #Gender"

1/2 What place does Christianity have in the history of the US women's movement? Eleanor Tiplady Higgs's book review of "Liberal Christianity and Women’s Global Activism: The YWCA of the USA and the Maryknoll Sisters" (by Amanda L. Izzo) examines how Izzo offers insight into this question....

1/2 How do women shape 'holy lives' whilst navigating patriarchal power structures? How is 'holy Black female personhood' produced in religious communities? Brenda Bartelink's review of @jscasselberry.bsky.social's "The Labor of Faith. Gender and Power in Black Apostolic Pentecostalism" explores..

1/2 This #ThrowbackThursday's article is Antoinette E. DeNapoli's "A Female Shankaracharya? The Alternative Authority of a Feminist Hindu Guru in India"! This #OpenAccess article examines how the guru Trikal Bhavanta Saraswati ("Mataji") constructs women's alternative authority in a lineage of...

1/2 How can faith contribute to personal resilience during difficult life events? Jadranka Rebeka Anić and Lynette Šikić-Mićanović's 2019 #OpenAccess article "… If You Can Turn to God, You Can Turn to Anyone! The Role of Faith among Homeless Women in Croatia" uses participant observation and...

1/2 This week's article spotlight is Sabine Grenz's #OpenAccess ‘I Don’t Know If You Have Experience with Meditation?: Intersectionally Gendered Power Relations in Post-secular Research’! Grenz's article explores the question of how we interact with participants to allow for...

1/2 What are the lived experiences of ordained women in British Buddhism? Seán Henry's review of Caroline Starkey's "Women in British Buddhism: Commitment, Connection, Community" explores how Starkey seeks to shed further light on this through comparing and contrasting the...

1/2 This week, we're spotlighting Mia Liinason's article "Sámi Resurgence through Heritage Work"! The article explores the intersections between Sámi spirituality and Lutheran Christianity. By drawing upon sources ranging from interviews and a podcast to a documentary and...

Great monographic issue out now on Religion & Gender (@religionandgender.bsky.social), The Complex Intricacies of Gender, Secularities and Religiosities: Exploring Entanglements, Borders and Struggles in Knowledge Production, Activism and Everyday Life, edited by Sabine Grenz and Mia Liinason

1/2 We're excited to announce that our latest issue is now out! 🎉 Volume 15 issue 1 is a special issue on "The Complex Intricacies of Gender, Secularities and Religiosities", edited by Sabine Grenz and Mia Liinason. This issue features articles on topics from post-secular research to Christian...

1/2 How do British Evangelical women navigate male headship? What connections are there between male headship beliefs in the church and within the marital sphere? Hannah Tolson's #OpenAccess article "Strategic Ambivalence: How British Evangelical Women Navigate Male Headship" draws upon...

1/3 In what way do arts and popular culture have transformative, and critical, potential for constructions of religion, gender, and sexuality? The recently published volume "Blasphemous Art?: Religion, Gender and Sexuality in Arts and Popular Culture" (edited by Adriaan van Klinken...

1/2 Happy 2025! 🎉 For our first post of 2025, we want to share some great news: volumes 9-11 of R&G are now #OpenAccess! We now have an open access embargo period of 3 years, which means that when you publish with us, your work will be open access after 3 years - with no cost to you as an...

1/2 How does the conversion narrative change over time? Karin van Nieuwkerk's #OpenAccess article "“Islam Is My Washing Line”: Long-Term Religious Trajectories of Dutch Female Converts to Islam" provides a longitudinal study of conversion to Islam by Dutch women. By revisiting interlocutors more...

1/2 How can podcasts broaden religious and feminist conversations? What sets podcasts apart from other digital media forms for Christian feminist podcasters? @albertagiorgi.bsky.social's article "Safe Soundscapes: Christian Feminist Podcasters Changing the ‘Religious Feeling Rules’" explores these

1/2 This week we're spotlighting Yafa Shanneik's review of Masooda Bano and Hilary Kalmbach's "Women, Leadership, and Mosques: Changes in Contemporary Islamic Authority"! The volume explores female Islamic leadership, and women's access to spaces within Islamic and non-Islamic spheres. Through...

This week for our #EditorialBoardSpotlight, we're introducing Lieke Schrijvers (VU Amsterdam)! Lieke is one of our co-managing editors, and is a cultural anthropologist with expertise in religion, gender, sexuality, and race. Discover more about Lieke below! #Religion #Gender #JournalEditor

Welcome to our new Bluesky page! 🎉 In case you haven't already seen it 👀 our latest issue was recently released! The issue's articles include Alex Fry and @drsharonjagger.bsky.social's "What Shapes Ambivalence towards ‘Feminism’ amongst the Clergy?" which explores responses...