Queering Gender, Race, Embodiment
Approaches and Guiding Questions in Religious Studies Research and Teaching
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.26104Keywords:
gender, race, decolonial, teaching, queer theory, religious studiesAbstract
The Essay presents provocative peer-reviewed scholarship that examines the field-wide implications of the latest research queries in Religious Studies. In this edition, Jessica Albrecht, a doctoral student at the University of Heidelberg, stresses the need for scholars to consider the role of the body within the critical study of religion. Albrecht argues that greater attention to material and corporeal relations is necessary for Religious Studies to advance its intellectual and pedagogical goals, goals that in the 21st century are presumably interested in decolonization. The Bulletin is pleased to publish this expanded version of this article, of which the original appeared in the German publication “Geschlecht, Sexualität, Verkörperung verqueert: Ansätze und Leitfragen in religionswissenschaftlicher Forschung und Lehre,” Handbuch der Religionen (forthcoming).
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