Results

Scientific Publications:

• Milda Ališauskienė, 2023, “Sun the Mother and Moon the Father: Gender Roles and Family Practices in Romuva”. Nova Religio; 27 (1): 79–98. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2023.27.1.79
• Morta Vidūnaitė, 2023, “The Agency in Islam or (and) Human Rights? The Case of Pious Baltic Muslim Women”. Religions; 14: 937. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14070937

Conference Papers:

• Milda Ališauskienė “Gender Roles and Family Practices among Religious Women in the Baltic States: the Generational Approach”, the 37th Biennial ISSR conference “Religion in Dialogue: Transformations, Diversity, and Materiality”, July 4-7, 2023, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
• Milda Ališauskienė and Liina Kilemit “Gender Roles and Family Practices among Pagan Women in Lithuania and Estonia: Between Reconstruction of Tradition and Memories from the Soviet Past?”, the 37th Biennial ISSR conference “Religion in Dialogue: Transformations, Diversity, and Materiality”, July 4-7, 2023, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
• Anne Hege Grung “Religious gender politics in Norway: Are women negotiated away?”, Conference of the University of Oslo NORA (Session Religion, Gender and Citizenship), June 20-22, 2022, Oslo, Norway.
• Morta Vidūnaitė, Anastasiia Babash “Tarp lyčių lygybės ir religijos: Baltijos valstybių religingų moterų musulmonių “tikrojo” Islamo paieškos” (Between Religion and Gender Equality: the Search for the ‘True’ Islam between Religious Female Muslims in the Baltics), 14th Conference of the Lithuanian Sociological Association “Universitetai, sociologija ir pilietinė visuomenė krizių akivaizdoje” (Session Religion, Philosophy and Social Relations), December 2, 2022, Kaunas, Lithuania.
• Anne Kull “Morphings of gender equality in the post-Soviet context: politics, religion and “terrifyingly destructive” gender: an example of the reception of the Istanbul Convention in Estonia”, EASR 2022 (Religions and States of Freedom),  27 June – 1 July 2022, Cork, Ireland.
• Milda Ališauskienė “Does Gender Equality exist among Pagans? Diversity of Notions of Gender Equality among Lithuanian Pagan Women”, International Sociological Association Research Committee on the Sociology of Religion (RC 22) international conference  “Religion, Politics and Uncertainty: Shifting Boundaries”, November 11-13, 2021, Vilnius, Lithuania.
• Eglė Aleknaitė “The Binary between the Religious and the Secular in Lithuanian Catholic Women’s Discourses on Gender Relations”, International Sociological Association Research Committee on the Sociology of Religion (RC 22) international conference  “Religion, Politics and Uncertainty: Shifting Boundaries”, November 11-13, 2021, Vilnius, Lithuania. 
• Dace Balode “Between Two Worlds: Women on Gender in Latvian Churches”, International Sociological Association Research Committee on the Sociology of Religion (RC 22) international conference  “Religion, Politics and Uncertainty: Shifting Boundaries”, November 11-13, 2021, Vilnius, Lithuania. 
• Anne Kull “National and International Activism against the Istanbul Convention: the Myths and Consequences”, International Sociological Association Research Committee on the Sociology of Religion (RC 22) international conference  “Religion, Politics and Uncertainty: Shifting Boundaries”, November 11-13, 2021, Vilnius, Lithuania. 
• Aivita Putnina “Fading Visibility of Women: Understanding of Gender in the Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church”, International Sociological Association Research Committee on the Sociology of Religion (RC 22) international conference  “Religion, Politics and Uncertainty: Shifting Boundaries”, November 11-13, 2021, Vilnius, Lithuania. 
• Ilva Skulte and Sofija Kozlova “Polarization of Discourse about Gender Roles, Family and Violence in Discussions about Istanbul Convention in Latvian Internet Media”, International Sociological Association Research Committee on the Sociology of Religion (RC 22) international conference  “Religion, Politics and Uncertainty: Shifting Boundaries”, November 11-13, 2021, Vilnius, Lithuania. 
• Girts Rozners “Fundamentalism and Women: Report on the Understanding of Gender Roles in Latvian Evangelical Churches”, International Sociological Association Research Committee on the Sociology of Religion (RC 22) international conference  “Religion, Politics and Uncertainty: Shifting Boundaries”, November 11-13, 2021, Vilnius, Lithuania. 

Project Events:

Research Seminars 

The international methodological seminar “How do we study Gender and Religion in Diverse Social Contexts?” was held online on May 28, 2021. 

Symposiums, Conferences

The international symposium “Religions, Gender, and ‘Genderism’: Interactions Shaping Gender Equality” was held in Vilnius on October 6-7, 2022. In total, 28 participants from Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, Italy, Great Britain, and Poland attended the symposium. 

Other events

On April 20-21, 2023, the ReliGen project team, consisting of researchers from Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Norway, met in Tallinn to discuss the research and publication plans. This meeting was organized by the University of Tartu. The main aim of this meeting was to discuss the results of theoretical and empirical research, as well as to discuss the forthcoming collective monograph, which will focus on the relationship between religion and gender, the ideologies of religion and gender, the interpretation and application of these ideologies in the everyday lives of religious women, and on the influence of religion on the policy of gender equality in the Baltic States and Norway.

An open event for social partners was held on 29th November 2022 at Tartu University, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies. Type of the event – a discussion with short presentations by project members Anne Kull and Olga Schihalejev. Participants –  representatives of the Lutheran church and its weekly newspaper, students, and researchers. The topics of the discussion: are the socialization of people by textbooks and violence against women (particularly in the context of the Istanbul Convention).

On 10-11 February 2022, the first face-to-face meeting of ReliGen (Religion and Gender Equality: Baltic and Nordic Developments) project team took place at the University of Latvia in Riga. The meeting focused on the discussion of the project research progress in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Norway, its future directions and other project activities planned in 2022 and 2023. The meeting also included a discussion with local guests – Jāna Jēruma-Grīnberga, the first Evangelical Lutheran bishop in the UK who has returned to Latvia and works for the changes in the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Muslim woman Safija who shared her experience of living and practicing Islam in Latvia, and Agnese Logina a member of Riga City Council. Discussion overviewed the arising issues in the intersections between religions and gender equality.