{"id":12,"date":"2015-05-08T19:38:59","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T19:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/annemariekorte.org\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2018-03-04T09:29:37","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T09:29:37","slug":"contested-privates","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/annemariekorte.org\/?page_id=12","title":{"rendered":"Contested Privates 2013-2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since 2013, prof. Anne-Marie Korte has been involved as project leader in the\u00a0NWO-funded project “Contested Privates: The Oppositional Pairing of Religion and Homosexuality in Contemporary Public Discourse in the Netherlands”.<\/span><\/p>\n

This project starts from the observation that in recent decades the public perception of both religion and sexual diversity has changed fundamentally. While religion is increasingly considered to be a private matter, sexual diversity has gained public importance. And whereas religious identity, long accepted as a matter of course, steadily has become contested in its public and most characteristic manifestations, acceptance of sexual diversity is now often presented as a prerequisite for modern citizenship. Conflicts about religion and homosexuality are, therefore, an important source for studying the connecting and dividing functions of religion in contemporary society. This project, then, focuses on the strategic and ideological assumptions, interests, and effects of present-day constructions of (homo)sexuality and religion in public discourse. Its aim is to map out the social, political, and cultural dimensions of framing religion and homosexuality as polarized constructs. The central question is: how are religion and homosexuality construed as oppositional pairings in contemporary Dutch society? The central (PhD) project will uncover and analyze oppositional pairings of religion and homosexuality in political debates, public counseling and information, and popular culture. Two postdoctoral projects put the research in a comparative perspective by looking into recent history (1946 to 2005) and three other European countries (Sweden, Serbia, and Spain). The critical analysis, bearing on feminism and queer studies, will unmask stereotypes and uncover subtexts with alternative constructions of both homosexuality and religion, contributing to ways of overcoming the polarized state of affairs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Research team<\/span><\/h5>\n

This NWO-funded project is a collaboration of the Amsterdam Center for the Study of Lived Religion (VU Amsterdam) and the Chair of Religion and Gender, Faculty of Humanities, Utrecht University. Fellow researchers\u00a0include:<\/span><\/p>\n

Prof.<\/span> Ruard Ganzevoort<\/a><\/span>, project leader and Professor in Practical Theology at VU Amsterdam<\/span>
\n Dr.<\/span> Mariecke van den Berg<\/a><\/span>, postdoctoral research\u00a0fellow\u00a0at the\u00a0Amsterdam Center for the Study of Lived Religion, VU Amsterdam<\/span>
\n Dr.<\/span> David Bos<\/a><\/span>, postdoctoral research fellow at the Amsterdam Center for the Study of Lived Religion, VU Amsterdam<\/span>
\nMarco Derks<\/a><\/span> MPhil, PhD candidate at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Utrecht\u00a0University<\/span><\/p>\n

See the<\/span> project website<\/a><\/span>\u00a0or the<\/span>\u00a0full project description in pdf<\/a><\/span>\u00a0for more information.<\/span><\/p>\n

Publications related to this project<\/h5>\n

Korte, A.J.A.C.M., van den Berg, M. & van den Bogert, K. eds. [2018]. Religion, Gender and Body Politics. <\/em>Special issue of Religion and Gender<\/em> 7 (forthcoming).<\/p>\n

Korte, A.J.A.C.M, van Bruinessen, M. & Leezenberg, M. eds. [2018]. Gestures: Religion Qua Performance. <\/em>New York: Fordham University Press (submitted).<\/p>\n

Derks, M., Ganzevoort, R.R. & Korte, A.J.A.C.M., eds. 2017. Nuptial Symbolics beyond the Law: The Construction of Religion and Sexuality in Debates on the Legalization of Same-Sex Marriage<\/em>. Special issue of Theology & Sexuality<\/em> 23 (1).<\/p>\n

Korte, A.J.A.C.M., Berlis, A. & Biezeveld, K. eds. 2017. Everyday Life and the Sacred: Re\/configuring Gender Studies in Religion<\/em>. Studies in Theology and Religion, vol. 23. Leiden: Brill.<\/p>\n

Korte, A.J.A.C.M. 2017.\u00a0Embodied Faith as Bone of Contention: Introduction to ‘Bodies and Rituals’. In: B.\u00a0Becking, A.J.A.C.M. Korte\u00a0& L.\u00a0van Liere (Eds.), Contesting Religious Identities<\/em>. Numen Book Series: Studies in the History of Religions, vol. 156. Leiden: Brill. 6 pp.<\/p>\n

van den Berg, C.A.M., Bos, D.J., Derks, M., Ganzevoort, R.R., Jovanovic, M., Korte, A.J.A.C.M. & Sremac, S. (2014). Religion, homosexuality, and contested social orders in the Netherlands, the Western Balkans, and Sweden. In G. Ganiel, H. Winkel & C. Monnot (Eds.), Religion in Times of Crisis<\/em> (pp. 116-134). Leiden: Brill.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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