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SUMMARY:Gender Lecture 2024: Stumbling towards Ecstasy: Queer and (Trans)f
 eminist Methods in the Study of Religion
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ATTENDEE;CN="Prof. Dr. Melissa Wilcox";ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT:Prof. Dr. Meli
 ssa Wilcox
CREATED:20240506T122444Z
DESCRIPTION:https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/genderzukunft/aktuelles/termine/
 gender-lecture-2024-stumbling-towards-ecstasy-queer-and-trans-feminist-met
 hods-in-the-study-of-religion\nFeminist studies\, queer studies\, and tran
 s studies often seem opposed to the study of religion\; many scholars eith
 er ignore religion or approach it through a classically Marxist lens as 
 “the opium of the people.” Scholars of religion\, likewise\, have been
  slow to adopt feminist\, queer\, or trans studies in a widespread manner\
 , although theologians have engaged with these fields more quickly than ha
 ve descriptive-analytical scholars. Scholars of religion take religion ser
 iously\, but they frequently find the engaged\, justice-oriented methods o
 f trans\, queer\, and feminist studies too subjective and brand them with 
 the insult unique to our field: “confessional.” Trans\, feminist\, and
  queer studies scholars think in complex ways about power\, research metho
 ds\, and reflexivity\, but all too often refuse to extend that complex ana
 lysis to religion. Yet\, these differences indicate gaps and resistances i
 n each field that could be addressed with the tools of the other. This lec
 ture offers a poststructuralist and psychoanalytic critique of the accusat
 ion of confessionalism\, weaving religonists’ valuable skills of empathe
 tic understanding together with trans/queer/feminist scholars’ insistenc
 e on the locatedness of knowledge and on reflexive and embodied research m
 ethods in order to continue my current efforts to stumble haltingly toward
  an ecstatic method in the study of religion.
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LOCATION:Alte Aula (Lahntor 3)
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 ecture-2024-stumbling-towards-ecstasy-queer-and-trans-feminist-methods-in-
 the-study-of-religion
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