International Summer School: Critical Approaches to the Study of Religion and Gender, Postcolonial, Post-secular and Queer Perspectives
Organised by the Centre for Gender and Diversity (CGD), Maastricht University and the International Association for the study of Religion and Gender (IARG).
When: 17-21 May 2017
Where: Maastricht University, FASoS
In contemporary multicultural societies, religious subjectivities, conflicts and contestations often focus on the themes of sexual difference, gender and sexuality. It is evident that in our postcolonial world and in (post)secular ‘Western’ as well as in ‘Non-Western’ societies, the confrontations, profiling and ‘identity’ politics of, and over and against religion[s] are often shaped by issues directly related to gender and sexuality (e.g. the recurrent heated debates over women’s veiling, abortion, or homosexuality). The expanding academic field of religion and gender provides critical tools to analyse these issues, and we wish to continue developing critical approaches to the study of religion and gender in the upcoming IARG advanced summer school.
More information: https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/events/international-summer-school-2017
