WUNRN
CALL
FOR PAPERS: SPECIAL ISSUE OF GENDER & SOCIETY
Gender
& Society
(GENDSOC) is a peer-reviewed journal, focused on the study of gender.
It is the official journal of Sociologists for Women in Society, and was
founded in 1987 as an outlet for feminist social science. Currently, it is a
top-ranked journal in both sociology and women's studies. Gender &
Society publishes less than 10% of all papers submitted to it. Articles
appearing in Gender & Society analyze gender and gendered processes in
interactions, organizations, societies, and global and transnational
spaces.
http://gas.sagepub.com/site/includefiles/GAS_CFP_Special_Issue_2013.pdf
CALL FOR
PAPERS: ISSUE ON GENDER & RELIGION
Gender is one of the most salient features of religious movements and religious
institutions. Women are the majority of participants in religious life and they
are increasingly significant actors in religious movements and politics. In
many religious traditions, cultural and religious continuity hinges on
gendered practices and sexual regimes. Many regions of the world are
experiencing important transformations with respect to religion. For instance,
China has seen an enormous upsurge in participation in religious and spiritual
movements, including large numbers of women. Evangelical Christianity is an
increasingly significant player in society and politics across the Global
South. Buddhist women in Asia are taking on positions of
greater authority in their religious tradition. Hindu nationalism in India and
Islamist governments coming to power in the Middle East and North Africa, have
given renewed urgency to questions about women and religion. And in the
United States, many political debates continue to be polarized by religious
affiliation and these debates have become significant issues in public
discourse.
Despite the growing popular and scholarly interest in religion, scholarship on
gender and religion remains under-conceptualized and marginalized in the
discipline of sociology.This special issue of *Gender & Society *seeks to
br ing together a range of empirical studies at the intersection of gender and
religion in diverse contexts in order to develop new theoretical concepts and
perspectives that can illuminate these issues._Gender & Society_ is one of
the most highly cited journals in sociology, and we expect this issue to become
a significant platform for emerging scholarship that will point toward new
directions and continuing conversations in the study of gender
and religion.
We welcome papers that interrogate the gendered nature of religious
communities, movements, and experiences while recognizing the centrality of
religion in the lives ofmany communities and individuals. Especially welcome
are papers that highlight transnational work that is grounded in deep regional
knowledge,
papers that bridgedifferent religions, and papers that contribute to
theorizing of major conceptual debates in the study of gender and sociology
more generally. Empirical and theoretical issues may include:
* Religion, structure, and agency
* Religious social movements
* Religious sexual cultures
* Religious masculinities
* Gendered religious practices
* Religion, gender, and politics
* Religion, gender, and everyday life
* Gender and secularism/post-secularism
* Religious law and gender
* Religion and activism for social/gender justice
* Religion, gender, and economic life / and or
class
* Intersectional perspectives on gender and
religion
* Religion, gender, and nationalism
Completed manuscripts, due *September 1, 2013* and should specify in the cover
letter that the paper is to be considered for the special issue.
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gendsoc
For additional information, please contact any of the guest editors for
this issue:
Orit Avishai
Department of Sociology
Fordham University
avishai@fordham.edu
Afshan Jafar
Department of Sociology
Connecticut College
ajafar@conncoll.edu
Rachel Rinaldo
Department of Sociology
University of Virginia
rar8y@virginia.edu