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The following provides specific information concerning the next meetings (here) and about projects (here). If you are interested in the latest publications on the feminist-theological market, click (here).

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Meetings


Africa and Switzerland: Women in Processes of Religious and Secular Transformation

Date: 14.10.2011

Place: mission 21, Missionsstrasse 21, Basel (Switzerland)

Organisation: joint venture between mission 21 and the Centre for African Studies at the University of Basel

Description: This conference provides a forum for the roles and positions of women in church and society in African nation states to be analysed and discussed primarily from a women’s and gender perspective. The first main objective is to foster awareness and distinct perceptions relating to processes of social transformation. The second key aim is to bring together academics, practitioners and interested individuals both from African countries, Switzerland and Germany to share topicrelated ideas, problems, experiences and prospects for future collaboration.

More information: http://www.mission-21.org/agen da/veranstaltungen-mission-21/ veranstaltungen-von-mission- 21/archive/2011/Mai/article/ africa-conference/



"Let's think about sex": Obsessions of the modern Catholic sexual morality, "good" sex

Date: 5 - 6 October 2011

Place: Frankfurt am Main

Description: Think about sex. That is the task of this conference.

More information: here

Religions and Masculinities en Las Américas

Date: 29.09.2011 and 30.09.2011

Place: Torhaus der Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, Raum S01, Krummer Timpen 3-5, Münster (Germany)

Description :To focus on masculinities inevitably requires taking the relationality of the category gender seriously and conducting an intersectional power analysis wherein religion again is conceptualized as a tremendously important socio-political factor among others. We would like to explore on the one hand the meaning of religion in the construction of masculinities and the impact of masculinity concepts on religion and religious institutions on the other. Considering migration, exchange, and transfer among cultures, ideas, and institutions in twentieth-century Americas – a geographical space, which is both marked by violent imbalances of power as by subtle forms of hegemony – will achieve analytical acuity, if it is guided by questions on the nexus of gender and religion. At the conference, we would like to discuss different approaches, hoping to develop further conceptual ideas.

More information here

"Why is there no Happiness in the East? The Making of European Gender Studies"

A conference at the Department of Gender Studies and the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies

Time: 8-10 September, 2011
Place: Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden

More information: www.sh.se/easthappy



Projects


Encyclopedia “The Bible and Women”

Book 1.1 (Torah) of "The Bible and Women" appears in both German and Italian.


Translation Project: The Bible in Just Language

The Bible in Just Language has already appeared in 3 editions! For the 4th edition, The Bible in Just Language is being edited with the addition of a new Glossary-Article. There are 52 female translators involved in the project. It is a German language Bible translation, which includes a feminist theological understanding, avoids discrimination and takes Jewish-Christian dialogue into consideration.
More information is available at the
project website (german).


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