Religion and Gender Equality around the Baltic Sea
Ideologies, Policies, and Private Lives
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Religion and Gender Equality around the Baltic Sea
Ideologies, Policies, and Private Lives
About this book
This volume aims to rethink the intersections of gender and religion, as well as the secular and religious, in implementing and challenging gender equality at individual, institutional, and societal levels in the regions around the Baltic Sea. Acknowledging the diversity of societies and the significance of socio-historical contexts, the empirical data discussed in this book draw attention to the under-researched region of post-socialist Baltic states. The analyses presented in the chapters are based on fieldwork carried out in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Norway. This volume includes sociological, anthropological, historical, political science, and theological perspectives and covers five broad research areas: a shifting concept of gender equality and its developments in Baltic and Nordic countries; a diversity of developments within religious groups related to issues of gender equality and the negotiation of competing gender ideologies; inter-religious developments and gender equality; the role of religions in the construction of public discourse on gender equality; and religious socialization, focusing on the promotion of religious gender models through socialization and public education.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- CopyrightPage
- Table of Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Religion and Gender Equality in the Baltic States: Key Aspects of Soviet and Post-Soviet Developments
- 2 Female Presidents but not Female Priests? Catholic and Evangelical Lutheran Women’s Discourse on Female Ordination and Gender Relations in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania
- 3 Conceptualizations of Gender (In)Equality among Latvian Christian Women
- 4 Between Gender Equality and Religion: Pious Baltic Muslim Women’s Quest for ‘True’ Islam
- 5 Gender as a (Non)Issue in Lithuanian Female Muslims’ Lives
- 6 Gendering Paganism in Lithuania and Estonia: Between the Reconstruction of Tradition and Memories of the Soviet Past?
- 7 Gender (In)Equalities in Lived Christianity: Catholic and Lutheran Evangelical Women’s Understandings of Gender Roles in the Family in Estonia and Latvia
- 8 From the Demonization of LGBTQ+ to the Privatization of Intimate Citizenship in the Lithuanian Catholic Church
- 9 Baltic Parable of Life and Death: Christian Opinions on Gendered Violence in the Context of the Istanbul Convention
- 10 Religious Gender Politics in Lithuania and Norway: Interdenominational and Interreligious Alliances and Their Positionings
- 11 Intersections of Religion and Gender in Public Schools of Baltic Countries
- Index