Heleen Zorgdrager
Biographic Data
| ID | 6573869 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heleen Zorgdrager |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heleen |
| FAMILY NAME | Zorgdrager |
| SIGNATURE | ZORGDRAGER H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Protestant Theological University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Gender, War, and Religion
Starting with clashes between Western and Ukrainian feminists, this article discusses basic questions from an intersectional perspective on the relation between gender, war and religion. In the context of Russia’s war against Ukraine, how should a gender-sensitive peace ethics look? Among feminists, as in religious communities, we find radical pacifist positions next to and sometimes conflicting with approaches that draw on traditions of “just wa…
Churches, Dignity, Gender
This article is based on a case-study of the public debate in Ukraine on the so-called Istanbul Convention ‘on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence’. The debate polarizes churches and more liberal parts of society. The author seeks for the roots of the churches’ position not to address the structural causes of domestic violence as gender-based violence. How does this relate to embracing dignity of the human being …
Ukrainian churches in defence of ‘traditional values’
Following the post-Maidan political urge to align Ukrainian legislation to European Union standards, churches and religious organisations strongly oppose the legal introduction of terminology relating to gender and sexual orientation. This contribution discusses two cases: the contested bill on the Labour Code and the difficult process of ratification of the Istanbul Convention. It presents an analysis of the position and strategy of the Ukrainia…
On the Fullness of Salvation
This essay addresses the need for a fuller, more integral and embodied understanding of salvation in Protestant, especially Reformed theology. Specifically, it makes a case for retrieving the early Eastern Christian notion of theosis /deification for contemporary Reformed theology. After reviewing classical formulations of theosis and other notions of salvation in the broader Christian tradition, it considers conventional Reformed objections to t…
Interview with Ekaterina Samutsevich
Interview with Ekaterina Samutsevich, member of Pussy Riot.Translated into English by Katya Tolstaya and Stella Rock
Introduction to the special issue on Pussy Riot’s Punk Prayer
Religion and Gender is the first peer-reviewed, international journal for the systematic study of gender and religion in an interdisciplinary perspective. The journal explores the relation, confrontation and intersection of gender and religion, taking into account the multiple and changing manifestations of religion in diverse social and cultural contexts. It analyses and reflects critically on gender in its interpretative and imaginative dimensi…
Interview with Ekaterina Samutsevich
Introduction to the Special Issue on Pussy Riot’s Punk Prayer
This special issue of Religion and Gender studies the interrelationship between political protest and religious culture in the Pussy Riot case, looking at the interferences of gender, religion, politics and art in Pussy Riot's famous performance in Moscow in February 2012 and in its multiple afterlives and resonances. The political art collective Pussy Riot's protest in the form of a 'Punk Prayer' invocating 'the Virgin Mary to chase Putin away' …
Homemade Mission, Universal Civilization
Though it is generally acknowledged that Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1836) was the first to put mission studies in the curriculum of theology, the contents of his theology of mission are not very well known. This article offers a careful reconstruction of his mission theology based on a gender-critical and postcolonial reading of the main sources, in particular Christian Ethics . Schleiermacher made a case for a family-based type of mission, c…
Churches, Dignity, Gender
This article is based on a case-study of the public debate in Ukraine on the so-called Istanbul Convention ‘on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence’. The debate polarizes churches and more liberal parts of society. The author seeks for the roots of the churches’ position not to address the structural causes of domestic violence as gender-based violence. How does this relate to embracing dignity of the human being …
Ukrainian churches in defence of ‘traditional values’
Following the post-Maidan political urge to align Ukrainian legislation to European Union standards, churches and religious organisations strongly oppose the legal introduction of terminology relating to gender and sexual orientation. This contribution discusses two cases: the contested bill on the Labour Code and the difficult process of ratification of the Istanbul Convention. It presents an analysis of the position and strategy of the Ukrainia…
Homemade Mission, Universal Civilization
Though it is generally acknowledged that Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1836) was the first to put mission studies in the curriculum of theology, the contents of his theology of mission are not very well known. This article offers a careful reconstruction of his mission theology based on a gender-critical and postcolonial reading of the main sources, in particular Christian Ethics . Schleiermacher made a case for a family-based type of mission, c…
On the Fullness of Salvation
This essay addresses the need for a fuller, more integral and embodied understanding of salvation in Protestant, especially Reformed theology. Specifically, it makes a case for retrieving the early Eastern Christian notion of theosis /deification for contemporary Reformed theology. After reviewing classical formulations of theosis and other notions of salvation in the broader Christian tradition, it considers conventional Reformed objections to t…
Interview with Ekaterina Samutsevich
Interview with Ekaterina Samutsevich, member of Pussy Riot.Translated into English by Katya Tolstaya and Stella Rock
Introduction to the special issue on Pussy Riot’s Punk Prayer
Religion and Gender is the first peer-reviewed, international journal for the systematic study of gender and religion in an interdisciplinary perspective. The journal explores the relation, confrontation and intersection of gender and religion, taking into account the multiple and changing manifestations of religion in diverse social and cultural contexts. It analyses and reflects critically on gender in its interpretative and imaginative dimensi…
Interview with Ekaterina Samutsevich
Introduction to the Special Issue on Pussy Riot’s Punk Prayer
This special issue of Religion and Gender studies the interrelationship between political protest and religious culture in the Pussy Riot case, looking at the interferences of gender, religion, politics and art in Pussy Riot's famous performance in Moscow in February 2012 and in its multiple afterlives and resonances. The political art collective Pussy Riot's protest in the form of a 'Punk Prayer' invocating 'the Virgin Mary to chase Putin away' …
Churches, Dignity, Gender
This article is based on a case-study of the public debate in Ukraine on the so-called Istanbul Convention ‘on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence’. The debate polarizes churches and more liberal parts of society. The author seeks for the roots of the churches’ position not to address the structural causes of domestic violence as gender-based violence. How does this relate to embracing dignity of the human being …
Ukrainian churches in defence of ‘traditional values’
Following the post-Maidan political urge to align Ukrainian legislation to European Union standards, churches and religious organisations strongly oppose the legal introduction of terminology relating to gender and sexual orientation. This contribution discusses two cases: the contested bill on the Labour Code and the difficult process of ratification of the Istanbul Convention. It presents an analysis of the position and strategy of the Ukrainia…
Gender, War, and Religion
Starting with clashes between Western and Ukrainian feminists, this article discusses basic questions from an intersectional perspective on the relation between gender, war and religion. In the context of Russia’s war against Ukraine, how should a gender-sensitive peace ethics look? Among feminists, as in religious communities, we find radical pacifist positions next to and sometimes conflicting with approaches that draw on traditions of “just wa…
Sociology (9 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (4 works) · Religious studies (4 works) · Social science (4 works)