Deadline- 1 July 2013
Call for papers has been announced for The Pussy Riot Case in which special issue of Religion and Gender (to be published in 2014) will look at the interferences of gender, politics, art, and religion. The objective of this program is to bring together research from different academic disciplines, including cultural studies, political studies, sociology, visual arts, theater- and music studies, Slavic studies, ritual studies, theology, religious studies, and philosophy and welcomes a range of methods to engage with the issue.
Targeted issues-
Papers that tackle the following-
- Blasphemy and the female body
- The role of feminism in this political/religious protest
- Pussy Riot as a liturgical phenomenon
- Pussy Riot as a visual phenomenon: iconography, modern art history, and the ‘image’ of Pussy Riot
- Ethics of interpretation of the Pussy Riot action (secular, feminist, religious, political, anarchist, commercial.…) and the boundaries of interpretation
- Re-invention of tradition: how Pussy Riot makes use of visual, musical, religious aspects of the Russian Orthodox tradition and combines those with a globalized world culture (like punk art, fashion, philosophy of the occupy movement)
- The Pussy Riot case in relation to core disputes about religious identity and meaning in late modern societies
Eligibility & Criteria-
Paper from around the globe are accepted.
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