Guest Lecturer:

Integrating interdisciplinarity and intersectionality: challenges and opportunities for research on religion

• Date: 1 april 2025, 16.00–17.30
• Location: English Park, Humanities Theater

Professor of Sociology, Dr Line Nyhagen, Loughborough UniversityProf Nyhagen is an expert on religion, gender, feminism and citizenship. Her interdisciplinary research examines women's and men's religious, gendered and racialised identities and their experiences of discrimination and barriers to citizenship in everyday life. She has also conducted research on feminism and women's movements in Europe. In addition, she researches inequalities in higher education.

This talk discusses the concept of intersectionality, including its activist and scholarly genealogies, with explicit reference to the study of religion. It examines historical and contemporary developments in research on religion and intersectionality and explores the contribution of Heidi Safia Mirza’s concept of ‘embodied intersectionality’. The talk also discusses connections between different theoretical perspectives in research on religion where intersectionality is key, with a view to empirical examples from studies of religion in different contexts.

Previous Guest Lectures at CRS:

The Rise of Civilisational Rhetoric and the Co-radicalisation of Young Europeans: Islamophobism vs Islam

Ayhan Kaya is the Director of the European Institute. He is a Professor of Politics and Jean Monnet Chair of European Politics of Interculturalism at the Department of International Relations, İstanbul Bilgi University; and a member of the Science Academy, Turkey. He is currently the principal investigator for the ERC Advanced grant project titled “Nativism, Islamophobism and Islamism in the Age of Populism: Culturalisation and Religionisation of what is Social, Economic and Political in Europe”.

He has researched and published broadly on Islam, migration and integration in Europe and on Europeanization and tolerance in Turkey. Recent publications include Populism and Heritage in Europe: Lost in Diversity and Unity (London: Routledge, 2019) and edited volume Memory in European Populism (London: Routledge, 2019, with Chiara de Cesari).

BECOMING JEWISH, BELIEVING IN JESUS: PENTECOSTALS, JEWISH RITUALS AND ZIONIST POLITICAL INCLINATIONS IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH

Manoela Carpenedo Rodriguez, Postdoctoral Researcher in Religion and Extremism in the global South vid University of Groningen, will give a lecture based in her book Becoming Jewish, Believing in Jesus: Judaizing Evangelicals in Brazil and her ongoing reserach about Christian zionism.

Manoela Carpenedo Rodriguez is a social scientist and ethnographer. Manoela’s work is dedicated to understanding grassroots Christian movements in the global South and their intersections with politics, religious extremism and gender.

A collaboration between CRS, Forum for Jewish Studies and Higher seminar in History of Religion and World Christianity at the Department of Theology.