Freedom and Entrapment: Intersections and Collisions in Gender, Sexuality and Religion
A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444). This special issue belongs to the section "Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 22472
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
My name is Dr Kathleen McPhillips. I am a sociologist of religion and gender at the University of Newcastle, Australia. I conduct research in the areas of women, religion and politics and gender-based violence. I invite you to submit a proposal for this Special Issue.
The aim of the special issue is to explore a number of central problematics in the field of gender, sexuality and religion. The focus will be on the tensions between the rights of religions to freedom of speech and worship and the need for gender equality and safety and protection against family and gender based- violence. Currently this is an unsettled space, with religious traditions making claims for specific inclusions in human rights laws in many countries to protect religious values and independence. Problematically, these values are often based on patriarchal claims and discriminate against women and LGBTQI+ populations. This raises the issue of the relationship between religion and state and particularly the responsibilities of the modern liberal state in ensuring the equity and safety of all citizens and protecting the rights of minority groups.
The essays in this volume will focus on current accounts of laws covering religious freedom in relation to gender discrimination, as well as reporting on research into the specific conditions of discrimination against women and minority groups in religious traditions, including responses to gender-based violence. The conundrum of protecting rights and ensuring freedom, so central to democracies, while addressing the entrapment many women experience in patriarchal religious traditions will be the central focus of this issue.
This Special Issue aims to address these topics via a number of avenues, including: legal reforms that claim to protect religious freedoms yet discriminate on the basis of gender; responses to these legal reforms by religious groups with particular reference to whose rights and claims are being addressed; the impacts of legal reforms on women and LGBTQI+ groups; research documenting gender-based violence in religious groups; the response by religious groups to accounts of gender-based violence; theologies that facilitate gender-based violence; state responses to institutional religion-based sexual abuse.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following: gender and religion; feminist theory; feminist theology; religion and politics; religion and social theory.
I/We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Kathleen McPhillips
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- religious freedom
- equality and gender justice
- gender-based violence
- marriage equality
- religious traditions
- patriarchy and religion
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