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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

R&G has recently turned 15! 🎉 To mark the occasion, our editors collaborated on a roundtable to reflect on the journal's history, how we can respond to current contexts, and the challenges and opportunities the future holds. Read the #OpenAccess roundtable below! brill.com/view/journal...

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Abstract In Religion and Gender’s fifteenth year, this roundtable piece by the editors reflects on our history and the times in which we are working. The piece responds to three questions: 1) How has ...

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Today we're introducing our new book review editor: Giorgio Maria Millesimi! Giorgio is a PhD student in Religious Studies at KU Leuven, Belgium. Part of the PANIC research project, his research focuses on how Catholic identity is shaped within the Italian context in relation to LGBTQ+ matters.

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

1/3 Our Special Issue "Contemporary Women’s Spirituality and Questioning Decolonisation" is now out 🎉! Edited by Cassandra Annapoorna Ellerbe and Carine Plancke, this Special Issue emerges from contributions developed from a 2022 symposium at Gent University, Belgium. As noted by the editors in...

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"Introduction to ‘Contemporary Women’s Spirituality and Questioning Decolonisation’" published on 15 Sep 2026 by Brill.

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

1/2 How do Kundalini yoga practitioners adopt gendered rituals? What are the interactions between a practitioner's personal and professional life and their yoga trajectory? Laeticia Stauffer's "The Self-Transformation Process in Kundalini Yoga as Taught by Yogi Bhajan through a Gendered Lens"...

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Managing Editor Call! We're seeking an additional Managing Editor to join our team. The managing editors (currently two) are responsible for overseeing the complete editorial production workflow and coordinating peer-review processes. See below for more info on the role and how to apply!

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

1/2 How do we understand power and regulation within religious spaces? Our Special Issue, "Power, Bodies and Regulation within the Context of Religion and Spirituality", edited by Sarah-Jane Page and @kpilch.bsky.social uses an intersectional focus...

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

1/2 How are interreligious marriages experienced? How do they challenge ideals, discrimination, and norms? Nella van den Brandt's book review of Lara Deeb's "Love Across Difference: Mixed Marriage in Lebanon" provides insight into how Deeb's research has examined the answers to the questions...

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

1/2 How does Smai Tawi/Kemetic Yoga enable spiritual empowerment through practices such as spirit conjuring? Cassandra Annapoorna Ellerbe explores this in the recent article "Embodied Resistance and Conjuring Spirit with Smai Tawi/Kemetic Yoga", by employing a Black feminist/Womanist and...

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

This week's #OpenAccess throwback is Andrea Pető's 2016 "How are Anti-Gender Movements Changing Gender Studies as a Profession?" Pető reflects on anti-gender movements' impact on gender studies, and its increased academic and institutional vulnerability. Read more below: brill.com/view/journal...

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

1/2 This week's featured book review is Rosa Martinez-Cuadros's review of Hind Elhinnawy's 2025 work "Secular Muslim Feminism: An Alternative Voice in the War of Ideas"! Martinez-Cuadros's review highlights the ways in which Elhinnawy explores the perspectives of Secular Muslim Feminists, noting...

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

1/2 This week, we're spotlighting an interview by Mary Anne Case, Sarah Bracke, and David Paternotte from 2016, with Father Krzysztof Charamsa. A former member of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and a former professor of theology, he made headlines in 2015 after coming out...

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

1/2 This week's spotlight is on Vieann Ragoonanan Maharaj's article "Purity and Patriarchy in Trinidad’s Kali Mai Puja"! The article examines gender roles and relations within Kali Mai Puja as practiced at the Jai Kali Shakti Mandir temple in Trinidad. Focusing on women's roles in ritual spaces...

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

1/2 This week's spotlight is Louise Gramstrup's book review of @linenyhagen.bsky.social and Beatrice Halsaa's "Religion, Gender and Citizenship: Women of Faith, Gender Equality and Feminism"! The review highlights the book's contribution towards a feminist acknowledgement of the role that faith...

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Our latest issue is out! 🎉 Volume 16 Issue 1 is a Special Issue on Religion & Gender in the Caribbean, edited by Maarit Forde, and explores negotiations of gender norms in the Anglophone Caribbean. Read the #OpenAccess Introduction here! brill.com/view/journal... #GenderStudies #ReligiousStudies

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

1/2 How did Charismatic Evangelical women support Jair Bolsonaro in the 2022 Brazilian elections? Manoela Carpenedo's #OpenAccess article "Embodiment, Religion, and Right-Wing Political Mobilisation: Charismatic Evangelical Women, Celebrity Pastors, and Electoral Politics in Brazil" explores these

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

1/2 How can pilgrimage tourism provide insight into binaries in modern Malaysia? Saswati Bhattacharya's book review of Viola Thimm's "Shopping with Allah: Muslim pilgrimage, gender and consumption in a globalised world" highlights Malaysia's recognition as a 'Halal hub', through the expansion...

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

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

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

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

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

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

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

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...

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Mehrdad Alipour @beyondbinaries1.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

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...

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

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

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

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...

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

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...

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

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

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NISIS @nisis-school.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

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...

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

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"...

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

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"...

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

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..

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

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"

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

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....

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

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..

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

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...

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

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...

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

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...

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

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...

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

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...

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Alberta Giorgi @albertagiorgi.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

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

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

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...

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

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...

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

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...

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

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...

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

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...

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

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

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

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...

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

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

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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

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...

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