Workshop 75
Travelling Religions-
Circuits of Gendered
Moralities
Convenors:
Gertrud Hüwelmeier,
Free University of Berlin
gertrud.huewelmeier@rz.hu-berlin.de
Steven Vertovec,
University of Oxford
steven.vertovec@compas.ox.ac.uk
Over the past decade, a
growing body of literature has emerged
that deals with processes
of transnationalism, migration and
diasporic networks.
Although religion seems to play an important
role in constructions of
social identity of many dispersed
communities all around the
globe, it received comparatively
little attention within the
field of research on processes of
deterritorialisation.
Transmigrants transport religious ideas,
practices and sacred
objects from one place to another, while
simultaneously changing or
redefining ideas about belief, ritual,
gender roles, religious
authorities or sacred places. Focusing
on transnational religious
networks, we suggest to explore
the (‚real‘,
‚virtual‘ or ‚imaginary‘) connections/disconnections
between sacred centres,
religious leaders and dispersed moral
communities. Relevant
questions to be addressed in regard to
travelling religions in
terms of moral circuits concern
a. the role of the media
(internet, video, tv, films etc.),
b. practices through which
religious authorities/actors become
global players,
c. the politics of religion
in local/national settings and
d. contestations and power
struggles within and between different
religious groups across
social and political boundaries.
We would encourage
participants to explore these issues from a
gendered perspective since
the different performances of women
and men in transnational
religious movements (and their possible
transformations) yet call
for greater attention in the scholarly
discourse of diaspora and
migration studies.
Dalit Goes Global,
Mission Goes Dalit
Maren Bellwinkel-Schempp,
University of Heidelberg
Migrant Women,
Transnational Practices and Changing Socio-
Economic Status:
Senegalese Women in New York and Paris
Georgia Barbara Jettinger,
University of Oxford
georgia.jettinger@compas.ox.ac.uk
Religion and Conflict in
Cyberspace
Birgit Bräuchler,
University of Munich
Negotiating Gender:
Discourses and Practices Among Young
Muslims in a
Scandinavian City
Christine M. Jacobsen,
University of Bergen
christine.jacobsen@sosantr.uib.no
Of Blood and Sacrifice:
Korbani and the Creation of a Moral
Order Among Bangladeshi
Migrants
José Mapril, University
of Lisbon
Travelling Spirits.
Transnational Healing in African Christian
Churches in Germany
Kristine Krause, Free
University of Berlin
Claiming the High
Ground: Global Religion and God as a Pathway
of Migrant Simultaneous
Incorporation
Nina Glick Schiller,
University of New Hampshire and Max Planck Institute
of Social Anthropology,
Halle/Salle
ngs@cisunix.unh.edu, schiller@eth.mpg.de
Diaspora at Home: A
Struggle to Appropriate Alternative
Religiosity
Tamar El-Or, Hebrew
University