Religion and Gender Equality around the Baltic Sea

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.

Autorentext

Milda Aliauskien is a professor of Sociology at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania.

Egl Aleknait is a senior researcher in the Social Research Center at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania.

Marianne Bjelland Kartzow is a professor of New Testament Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway.

Inhalt

Introduction - Milda Aliauskien , Egl Aleknait and Marianne Bjelland Kartzow; 1. Religions and Gender Equality in the Baltic States: Key Aspects of Soviet and Post-Soviet Developments - Milda Aliauskien , Dace Balode, Linards Rozentals, Anne Kull and Art ras Terekinas; 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 - Egl Aleknait , Anne Kull and Girts Rozners; 3. Seeking Equality: Relational and Power-based Conceptualizations of Gender (in)Equality among Latvian Women of Faith - Aivita Putnina; 4. Between Gender Equality and Religion: The Baltic Muslim Women's Quest for 'True' Islam - Morta Vid nait , Anastasia Babash and Anne Hege Grung; 5. Gender as a (non)issue in Lithuanian female Muslims' lives - Egd nas Räius; 6. Gender Roles and Family Practices among Pagan Women in Lithuania and Estonia: between Reconstruction of Tradition and Memories from Soviet Past? - Milda Aliauskien and Liina Kilemit; 7. Gender (in)equalities in lived Christianity: Catholic and Lutheran Evangelical Women's Understanding of Gender Roles in the Family in Estonia and Latvia - Liina Kilemit, Aivita Putnina, Girts Rozners; 8. From the Demonization of LGBTQ+ to the Privatization of Intimate Citizenship in the Lithuanian Catholic Church - Art ras Terekinas and Morta Vid nait ; 9. Baltic Parable of Life and Death: Christian Opinions on Gendered Violence in the Context of the Istanbul Convention - Gintar Poc , Anne Kull, and Ilva Skulte; 10. Inter- and intra-religious alliances making gender and family politics in Norway and Lithuania: What is at stake, and for whom? - Anne Hege Grung and Egl Aleknait ; 11. Intersections of Religion and Gender in Public Schools of Baltic Countries - Olga Schihalejev, Rimgail Dikait , Laima Geikina