This past year, I have been working on an article and conference presentation together with my dear colleague Jelle Wiering (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen). We are both anthropologists, we found out that we even studied together in the BA cultural anthropology at Utrecht University. Five years later, we are both PhD candidates in universities on different sides…… Continue reading Let’s talk about sex… “Contested Privates: Religion and Homosexuality in Public Discourse”
Tag: religious studies
Expert meeting: Rethinking Religion, Emancipation and Women’s Conversion
Originally posted on IARG:
The research group “Beyond ‘Religion versus Emancipation”, with IARG director prof. Anne-Marie Korte as project leader, organises its first interdisciplinary symposium at Utrecht University. Two keynote lectures by experts in the field, professor Jeanette Jouili (University of Pittsburgh) and professor Elina Vuola (University of Helsinki), will be the starting point for…
Women converting to Islam in the Netherlands: ‘van Hagelslag naar Halal’
[This blog was previously published on the website of ‘Cultures, Citizenship and Human Rights’, a research focus area (and community) at Utrecht University, NL on Oct. 17 2016] In public debates in contemporary Western Europe, religious traditions are often met with suspicion when it concerns the freedom of women. Monotheistic traditions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) are in…… Continue reading Women converting to Islam in the Netherlands: ‘van Hagelslag naar Halal’
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