Collaborative Pathways: Feminist Scholarship,

Freedom, and Faith Across Contexts: In Collaboration with the Women & Religion Unit

Sheraton, Boston Common, Fifth Floor

Co-sponsored with the AAR/SBL Women’s Caucus, this panel explores the intersections of gender, freedom, and religion through the lens of feminist collaboration and mentorship. Featuring emerging scholars, the session highlights diverse global contexts—Victorian-era Korea, medieval China, contemporary South Korea, and Madagascar—to examine how women navigate, reinterpret, and resist religious and cultural constraints. Papers include analyses of Korean Protestant women’s negotiations of Victorian womanhood, African churchwomen’s movements for liberation and solidarity, strategic uses of chastity and religion in medieval China, and the paradoxes of neoliberal empowerment for evangelical businesswomen in South Korea. Together, these studies offer rich insights into how women embody, challenge, and transform religious traditions. Emphasizing intergenerational and intercultural dialogue, the panel fosters collaborative methodologies and invites participants to consider how feminist religious scholarship can be a site of both critical reflection and imaginative resistance.

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Facilitators:

Julia Enxing, Presiding​