Engaging Islam: Feminisms, Religiosities, and Self-Determinations, University of Massachusetts Boston

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-- Call for Papers for "Engaging Islam: Feminisms, Religiosities, and Self-Determinations"

-- The 2007 Fall Institute at UMass Boston invites proposals that explore critically the relationship between Islam and Feminisms today. For more information, visit their website http://www.engagingislam.umb.edu/

-- By engaging Islam through a feminist lens, we hope to challenge inadequately interrogated assumptions and modes of thinking that posit secularism and democracy in opposition to religiosity and oppression. The critical perspective of feminist analysis provides a particularly valuable window into the many struggles internal to Islam, its changing dynamics over time, and the intersecting influences of economic/cultural globalization, imperialism and patriarchal power structures in the lives of individuals, communities, and nations.

-- Deadline for Submissions: February 15, 2007

-- Please email submissions to: Jennifer.Howard003@umb.edu or mail to: 2007 Fall Institute: Engaging Islam, Attention: Jennifer Howard, University of Massachusetts Boston, College of Liberal Arts, 100 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, Massachusetts 02125