Religions and Discourse

ISSN: 1422-8998

Religions and Discourse explores religious language in the major world faiths from various viewpoints, including semiotics, pragmatics and cognitive linguistics, and reflects on how it is situated within wider intellectual and cultural contexts. In particular a key issue is the role of figurative speech. Many fascinating metaphors originate in religion e.g. revelation as a 'garment', apostasy as 'adultery', loving kindness as the 'circumcision of the heart'. Every religion rests its specific orientations upon symbols such as these, to name but a few. The series strives after the interdisciplinary approach that brings together such diverse disciplines as religious studies, theology, sociology, philosophy, linguistics and literature, guided by an international editorial board of scholars representative of the aforementioned disciplines. Though scholarly in its scope, the series also seeks to facilitate discussions pertaining to central religious issues in contemporary contexts. The series will publish monographs and collected essays of a high scholarly standard.

62 publications

Gender and Sexualities in Education

ISSN: 2166-8507

Part of the Peter Lang Diversity series, the Gender and Sexualities in Education series seeks to publish high quality manuscripts that address the complex interrelationship between gender and sexuality in shaping young people’s schooling experiences, their participation in popular youth cultures, and their sense of self in relation to others. Books published might include: a study of hip-hop youth culture, Latina/o students, white working class youth, or LGBTQQ community groups – in each case asking how they explore, challenge, and perform gender and sexualities as part of learning and “becoming somebody.” Other books might address issues of masculinities, gender and embodiment, trans and genderqueer youth, sexuality education, or the construction of heteronormativity in schools. We invite contributions from authors of ethnographic and other qualitative studies, theoretical texts, as well as critical analyses of popular culture “texts” targeted at or produced by youth – including an analysis of popular music and fan culture, video and film, and gaming culture. While the focus of the series is on original research or theoretical monographs, exceptionally well-crafted proposals for thematically coherent edited volumes and textbooks will also be considered. For additional information about this series or for the submission of manuscripts, please contact: Dennis Carlson, Miami University: carlsodl@muohio.edu Elizabeth J. Meyer, California Polytechnic State University: ejmeyer@calpoly.edu

9 publications

Gender, Sexuality, and Culture

This new series is a forum for the investigation and analysis of the contested terrain between culture, gender, and sexuality. Titles in the series can include, but are not limited to, (re)theorizations of gender in relation to, or its constitution through, sexuality, race, dass, or culture, studies of sexuality and sexual identity that produce new understandings of gender, or new inquiries into culture, broadly defined, that raise competting implications for the ways in which we think about gender and sexuality in the contemporary social world. Of particular interest are manuscripts that cirtique and/or broaden traditional constructions of gender and take into account sexuality, race, dass, or the pressures of other constitutive categories, analyze nonwestern literary and cultural representations of gender and their relationship to sexuality, especially in postcolonial contexts, and theorize transgender from feminist, queer, postcolonial, or cultural studies frameworks. This new series is a forum for the investigation and analysis of the contested terrain between culture, gender, and sexuality. Titles in the series can include, but are not limited to, (re)theorizations of gender in relation to, or its constitution through, sexuality, race, dass, or culture, studies of sexuality and sexual identity that produce new understandings of gender, or new inquiries into culture, broadly defined, that raise competting implications for the ways in which we think about gender and sexuality in the contemporary social world. Of particular interest are manuscripts that cirtique and/or broaden traditional constructions of gender and take into account sexuality, race, dass, or the pressures of other constitutive categories, analyze nonwestern literary and cultural representations of gender and their relationship to sexuality, especially in postcolonial contexts, and theorize transgender from feminist, queer, postcolonial, or cultural studies frameworks. This new series is a forum for the investigation and analysis of the contested terrain between culture, gender, and sexuality. Titles in the series can include, but are not limited to, (re)theorizations of gender in relation to, or its constitution through, sexuality, race, dass, or culture, studies of sexuality and sexual identity that produce new understandings of gender, or new inquiries into culture, broadly defined, that raise competting implications for the ways in which we think about gender and sexuality in the contemporary social world. Of particular interest are manuscripts that cirtique and/or broaden traditional constructions of gender and take into account sexuality, race, dass, or the pressures of other constitutive categories, analyze nonwestern literary and cultural representations of gender and their relationship to sexuality, especially in postcolonial contexts, and theorize transgender from feminist, queer, postcolonial, or cultural studies frameworks.

8 publications

Leipziger Gender-Kritik

Das Zentrum für Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung der Universität Leipzig versteht sich seit seiner Gründung 2001 als Ort der Vernetzung und Sichtbarmachung interdisziplinärer Forschung und Lehre im Bereich der Gender Studies an der Universität Leipzig. Die seit 2009 herausgegebene Schriftenreihe Leipziger Gender-Kritik umfasst dabei die Beiträge der regelmäßig und außerordentlich veranstalteten Vortragsreihen und Fachtagungen seit 2007, die einen Einblick in aktuelle Debatten und Kontroversen um die Kategorie Geschlecht ermöglichen und wird um Lehrwerke und Forschungsarbeiten ergänzt. Band 8 schließt diese Reihe ab. Das Zentrum für Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung der Universität Leipzig versteht sich seit seiner Gründung 2001 als Ort der Vernetzung und Sichtbarmachung interdisziplinärer Forschung und Lehre im Bereich der Gender Studies an der Universität Leipzig. Die seit 2009 herausgegebene Schriftenreihe Leipziger Gender-Kritik umfasst dabei die Beiträge der regelmäßig und außerordentlich veranstalteten Vortragsreihen und Fachtagungen seit 2007, die einen Einblick in aktuelle Debatten und Kontroversen um die Kategorie Geschlecht ermöglichen und wird um Lehrwerke und Forschungsarbeiten ergänzt. Band 8 schließt diese Reihe ab. Das Zentrum für Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung der Universität Leipzig versteht sich seit seiner Gründung 2001 als Ort der Vernetzung und Sichtbarmachung interdisziplinärer Forschung und Lehre im Bereich der Gender Studies an der Universität Leipzig. Die seit 2009 herausgegebene Schriftenreihe Leipziger Gender-Kritik umfasst dabei die Beiträge der regelmäßig und außerordentlich veranstalteten Vortragsreihen und Fachtagungen seit 2007, die einen Einblick in aktuelle Debatten und Kontroversen um die Kategorie Geschlecht ermöglichen und wird um Lehrwerke und Forschungsarbeiten ergänzt. Band 8 schließt diese Reihe ab.

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Gender and the History of Institutions

The aim of this book series is to examine the history of institutions around the world through the lens of gender. Of interest are institutions established with the specific purpose of regulating gender and sexuality (e.g. the Magdalen asylums, Magdalen hospitals, penitentiaries, refuges, mother and baby institutions) as well as those with more general purposes where gender has had an important role in their operation and function (e.g. prisons, workhouses, lunatic asylums), including both religious and private organisations. The series supports the increasing interest in these institutions internationally, both in academia and in the treatment of ‘historical’ abuse. The series highlights the range of archives that can be considered in examining this history, not only in English-speaking countries but also in countries where the institutions described above have existed and determined the lives of many people. It will also broaden the conversation by widening the scope of institutions being considered. The series has as its main objective expanding the discussion of gender in reference to these lesser known institutions. At the same time, its purpose is to provide academia with a forum for discussion and a critical approach to the concepts of gender and institutions that attract both researchers and the general public. All projects undergo rigorous peer review before acceptance for publication.

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