Julia Roth

Heidemarie Winkel

Alexandra Scheele

Across the globe, a growing number of social movements, such as demonstrations in support of equal civil status or reproductive freedom and against sexualized violence, show that women's and gender rights are highly contested. Against the backdrop of a long history of unequal rights implementation, the contributors to this volume deal with the questions of why and in which ways gender equality has become contested in various political contexts. Local case studies examine the relevant structural, institutional, and socio-cultural causes of the global challenges to equality. This book follows an interdisciplinary approach and unites scholars from law, linguistics, cultural studies, history, social sciences, and gender studies in diverse contexts.

Global Contestations of Gender Rights

Kornelia Sammet

Das Buch bündelt aktuelle Weiterentwicklungen religionssoziologischen Denkens und Forschens. Die Beiträge gehen auf jeweils eigene Art und anhand unterschiedlicher Kontextualisierungen und empirischer Felder der Frage nach, wie ein soziologisch differenziertes Verständnis von Religion aussehen kann, das nicht primär auf das (westliche) Christentum und die Herausforderungen westlicher Gesellschaften bezogen ist. Hierzu werden zentrale religionssoziologische Diagnosen quergelesen und durch theoretische Neukonturierungen ergänzt. Empirischer Referenzpunkt der Beiträge sind aktuelle, weltweit zu beobachtende Prozesse religiöser Diversifizierung und Pluralisierung sowie neue Formen religiöser Grenzziehung, der Sinnstabilisierung und Re-Organisation von Religion.

Reflexionen auf aktuelle Entwicklungen in Theorie und Empirie

Religion soziologisch denken

Angelika Poferl

Until today, Western, European sociology contributes to the social reality of colonial modernity, and gender knowledge is a paradigmatic example of it. Multiple Gender Cultures, Sociology, and Plural Modernities critically engages with these ‘Western eyes’ and shifts the focus towards the global variety of gendered socialities and hierarchically entangled social histories. This is conceptualised as multiple gender cultures within plural modernities. The authors examine the multifaceted realities of gendered life in varying contexts across the globe. Bringing together different perspectives, the volume provides a rereading of the social fabric of gender in contrast to androcentrist-modernist as well as orientalist representations of ‘the’ gendered Other. The key questions explored by this volume are: which social mechanisms lead to conflicting or shifting gender dynamics against the backdrop of global entanglements and interdependencies, and to what extent are neocolonial gender regimes at work in this regard? How are varying gender cultures sociohistorically and culturally structured, and how are they connected within (global) power relations? How can established hierarchies and asymmetries become an object of criticism? How can historical, cultural, social, and political specificities be analysed without gendered and other reifications? That way, the volume aims to promote border thinking in sociological understanding of social reality towards multiple gender cultures and plural modernities.

Re-reading Social Constructions of Gender across the Globe in a Decolonial Perspective

Multiple Gender Cultures, Sociology, and Plural Modernities

Christel Gärtner

Islamic religion has become an object of political discourse in ways that also affects academic reflection; against this background this volume aims to provide a theoretically and empirically founded assessment of where social sciences currently stand with regard to Islam. For this purpose, the volume continues to develop the sociological knowledge of Islam that began in the 1980s. Given the Orientalism inherent in sociology, the volume focuses on Muslim knowledge systems and institutions, as well as the practice of Muslim religiosity in various social contexts stretching from Algeria and Morocco to Turkey.

Heidemarie Winkel

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