Projects / Programmes
Religion and sexisem: The image of Women in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition
| Code |
Science |
Field |
Subfield |
| 6.11.00 |
Humanities |
Theology |
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| Code |
Science |
Field |
| H160 |
Humanities |
General, systematic and practical Christian theology |
culture, tradition, negative gender stereotypes and prejudices, gender roles, gender hierarchy, gender equality, religious feminism, woman religious experience, women and religion, feminist theology, "Christian feminism", Jewish feminism, emancipation, etization and humanization of global world, feminization.
Researchers (1)
| no. |
Code |
Name and surname |
Research area |
Role |
Period |
No. of publicationsNo. of publications |
| 1. |
22368 |
PhD Nadja Furlan Štante |
Theology |
Head |
2008 - 2010 |
250 |
Organisations (1)
Abstract
Research project deals with culture's theology of european-slovene religious space and women's comparative religious studies (comparative religious study will attempt some comparisons of the treatment of women in two major world religions: Judaism and Christianity) and more precisely with analysis of models which allow a modern understanding of place and role of multircultural phenomenon of feminist theology within the framework of interreligious women's studies (judeo-christian). First, the the question of the relations and connections between culture, religion and the appearance of sexism is analyzed in more detail. In the second part, the comparison of the treatment of women in two major world religions: Judaism and Christianity in terms of six major themes: male and female in cosmic order and good and evil; purity and impurity; education, teaching and religious leadership; asceticism and monasticism; marriage, divorce and widowhood; dress, body, and segregation; takes part. The third and final part of the research with help of hermeneutical key of Christian feminist theology is going to develop a model of women religious identity and experience in the Slovene socio-religious space (with stress on Catholic Church). The research with help of hermeneutic key of feminist theology pose on recognizing different negative gender stereotypes and prejudices and also suppressing mechanisms which have formed through the past and marked personal relations and individual gender. At this point the research touches the new phenomenom - the culture's theology which brings into focus the ethic imperative of respect and equivalence of a single person as such, not regarding the gender, race, religion; and at the same time emphasizes specific characteristics of a certain culture, sexual and racial variety and diversity. The methodological and comparative-religious part and also the above mentioned researches will be used to create a wider multicultural ethical code which emphasizes and preserves a call for holiness and religiosity and places the emancipatory pattern into the Christian context and at the same time emphasizes the universal orientation of the Christian ethos, which is the central element of our culture's theology (the culture of European and Slovene social and religious space). The research, with the help of feminist theology's findings, tries to refresh and awake the basic Christian imperative of genders' equality which is more or less recognizable not only in the fundamental Christian tradition but also in every classical study of any religion. The themes of the second part analyse in detail the field of oppression, uncover the images and warn of the numerous prejudices which have become a part of a certain culture's theology, of everyday's lifespace and of (non)ethic attitude of a certain society. The research project is united with the unfolding of the hypothesis about the importance of recognizing the mechanisms for supressing women by the men's superiority which have been, through the centuries, strenghten with the help of emphasis and choices of certain sacred texts, which were interpreted in the light of men's superiority. At the same time, this is the attempt for the construction of conditions for multicultural-comparative religiosity of which the central axis is concentrated on multicultural universalism of the feminist theology's phenomenom.
Significance for science
Creation of strategies and methodologies that enabled the creation of the model for religious experience end the position of women in Slovenian religious sphere (with stress on Christianity and Judaism).
Reinstatement of relations between the Slovene and world scientific area.
The transfer of European and American scientific concepts into the Slovene area.
The transference of global knowledge to Slovenia.
The feminist theology and the question of religious feminism and women's studies inside individual religious systems are in Slovenia a spadework field which has not yet found a right place in the academic-scientific spheres and is in fact still not researched and is an unknown field which is waiting for a more detailed place and development. Project and its results are big contribution to completion of methological equipment which concerns the research of the phenomenon of the feminist theology, its hermeneutics and also absorption of the feminist question in the sense of the consistent world's humanity and etization. According to the fact that the feminist theology and religious feminism are becoming a universal multicultural phenomenon, it is extremely important that the Slovene space also gets a deserving place and value on the basis of world's and European criteria because her presence stimulates and raises the ethic standards of a society.
Significance for the country
Education of the broader society and interested public as well as media: doc. dr. Nadja Furlan as the only researcher in the postdoctoral project is preparing different religious lectures (the cultural centre Sinagogue in Maribor, the congress and cultural centre Cankarjev dom in Ljubljana and rotary Club in Ljubljana) which contribute to a better understanding and representation of the intercultural and interreligous phenomenon of feminist theology and different religious feminisms and women religious studies.
Cognition and results of the research proceed into the educational process at the University of Primorska.
The indirect value of the results of the project is in the important contribution to the phenomenon of feminist theology, which is still poorly developed and scarcely present in our country and which is becoming an increasingly topical intercultural universal language in the globalising world, stimulating a “harmonious ethicalization of the world,” especially in light of its increased integration with the European and international space. The results of the project thus provide the Slovene social sphere with an access to foreign knowledge and its consequent international integration, with the results also imposing a strong ethic imperative of better, more humane and noble interpersonal relations.
Most important scientific results
Annual report
2008,
final report,
complete report on dLib.si
Most important socioeconomically and culturally relevant results
Annual report
2008,
final report,
complete report on dLib.si
