Eline Huygens
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 904501 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Eline Huygens |
| PRENOMES | Eline |
| SOBRENOME | Huygens |
| ASSINATURA | HUYGENS E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7256-4102 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2015 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Roundtable
In Religion and Gender ’s fifteenth year, this roundtable piece by the editors reflects on our history and the times in which we are working. The piece responds to three questions: 1) How has the scholarly field developed during the first fifteen years of Religion and Gender ? 2) How can we respond to the current economic and political context? 3) What challenges and opportunities does the future hold for religion and gender scholarship, and for …
Keeping Women in Their Digital Place
Women and the Catholic Church
Dis/closures of positionality
This article argues that researchers should consider positionality not as a one-time declaration of social identity, but as an ongoing practice of epistemic suspicion that reveals how our knowledge is shaped not only by who we are, but also by the historically sedimented structures that make us intelligible as ‘knowers’ in the first place. We bring empirical material collected in an ethnographic study on race, (in)equality, and discrimination int…
Living a Catholic Life
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
Thinking Religion in Place
The Journal for the Academic Study of Religion (JASR) was founded—under the title of the Australian Religion Studies Review (ARSR)—some 35 years ago in 1988 and renamed in 2013. Now, the co-editors are relaunching the journal: this time, our name remains the same, but our song is changing. Our hope is to make the JASR distinctive in the religious studies publishing landscape. Although there are many high-quality journals in our field, we want to …
Catholic Women as Subjects of Debate
Through the analysis of empirical material that discusses women’s positions in religion in Flanders/Belgium, this article shows how local religion/secular dynamics are co-constituted by issues of race and gender. Starting from the premise that religious women’s (self-)positioning must be understood from a critical perspective on both secularity and race, we show how a.) mainstream secular and racialising discourses aim to discipline various relig…
Fostering the sacred in a secular society
This article aims to contribute to the body of scholarship on lived religion by using intimate relationships as a lens in order to examine religiosity. Based on ethnographic research carried out among practicing Catholic women in Belgium, I unpack Catholic women’s understanding of the entanglement between religiosity and relationships by showing the ways in which these women perceive intimate relationships to enable—and at times hinder—their perf…
Navigating the Catholic Church in Belgium
Despite being denied access to ordained positions of power, and limited to occupying lay positions, women numerically outnumber men in the Catholic Church in Belgium. Furthermore, their involvement in the Church mostly takes place in what can be considered gender stereotypical domains, such as education and care-providing services. This article explores how Catholic lay women navigate the Belgian Catholic Church and how they reconcile their relig…
‘My dream is that I share the bed with only one man’
Drawing on qualitative research with Catholic women who are active in the Church in Belgium, this article sets out to analyse how these women negotiate and manage premarital sexuality. I map their practices, experiences, and strategies, and explore how they make sense of religious and secular norms regarding premarital sexuality. By using two notions as theoretical frameworks, namely religious agency and growth ethics, I argue that combining both…
Humble Women, Powerful Nuns
Practicing Religion during a Pandemic
This article aims to investigate how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the religious lifestyles of practicing female Roman Catholics in Belgium. I explore how these Catholic believers manage to stay in touch with their faith and faith community in times of crisis when physical and real-life contact is very limited. In this article, I draw on in-depth interviews conducted via Zoom, carried out in the framework of my current ethnographic research …
Liefde als werkwoord
This article aims to investigate how the notions of love and romantic relationships are constructed in secular and Catholic texts. Flemish society can be characterised by an intricate entanglement of secularism and Catholicism. I aim to examine this entanglement through an empirical analysis of both secular and Catholic discourses on love and romantic relationships. These discourses offer a challenging case study in which the fluid boundaries bet…
Latter-day Screens. Gender, Sexuality, and Mediated Mormonism, by Brenda R. Weber
Postsecular Catholicism
Is There a Paradox of Liberation and Religion? Muslim Environmentalists, Activism, and Religious Practice
Social movement theorists have often posited that religion and political activism are inherently opposed—that religion cannot liberate people from situations of social or political discontent in the same manner as activism. Through a study of Muslim environmental activists in the United Kingdom and United States of America, this article directly challenges this belief—not only by charting the theoretical problems of this belief within the social …
Stealing My Religion
Practicing Religion during a Pandemic
This article aims to investigate how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the religious lifestyles of practicing female Roman Catholics in Belgium. I explore how these Catholic believers manage to stay in touch with their faith and faith community in times of crisis when physical and real-life contact is very limited. In this article, I draw on in-depth interviews conducted via Zoom, carried out in the framework of my current ethnographic research …
Dis/closures of positionality
This article argues that researchers should consider positionality not as a one-time declaration of social identity, but as an ongoing practice of epistemic suspicion that reveals how our knowledge is shaped not only by who we are, but also by the historically sedimented structures that make us intelligible as ‘knowers’ in the first place. We bring empirical material collected in an ethnographic study on race, (in)equality, and discrimination int…
Is There a Paradox of Liberation and Religion? Muslim Environmentalists, Activism, and Religious Practice
Social movement theorists have often posited that religion and political activism are inherently opposed—that religion cannot liberate people from situations of social or political discontent in the same manner as activism. Through a study of Muslim environmental activists in the United Kingdom and United States of America, this article directly challenges this belief—not only by charting the theoretical problems of this belief within the social …
Postsecular Catholicism
Liefde als werkwoord
This article aims to investigate how the notions of love and romantic relationships are constructed in secular and Catholic texts. Flemish society can be characterised by an intricate entanglement of secularism and Catholicism. I aim to examine this entanglement through an empirical analysis of both secular and Catholic discourses on love and romantic relationships. These discourses offer a challenging case study in which the fluid boundaries bet…
Latter-day Screens. Gender, Sexuality, and Mediated Mormonism, by Brenda R. Weber
‘My dream is that I share the bed with only one man’
Drawing on qualitative research with Catholic women who are active in the Church in Belgium, this article sets out to analyse how these women negotiate and manage premarital sexuality. I map their practices, experiences, and strategies, and explore how they make sense of religious and secular norms regarding premarital sexuality. By using two notions as theoretical frameworks, namely religious agency and growth ethics, I argue that combining both…
Humble Women, Powerful Nuns
Practicing Religion during a Pandemic
This article aims to investigate how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the religious lifestyles of practicing female Roman Catholics in Belgium. I explore how these Catholic believers manage to stay in touch with their faith and faith community in times of crisis when physical and real-life contact is very limited. In this article, I draw on in-depth interviews conducted via Zoom, carried out in the framework of my current ethnographic research …
Fostering the sacred in a secular society
This article aims to contribute to the body of scholarship on lived religion by using intimate relationships as a lens in order to examine religiosity. Based on ethnographic research carried out among practicing Catholic women in Belgium, I unpack Catholic women’s understanding of the entanglement between religiosity and relationships by showing the ways in which these women perceive intimate relationships to enable—and at times hinder—their perf…
Navigating the Catholic Church in Belgium
Despite being denied access to ordained positions of power, and limited to occupying lay positions, women numerically outnumber men in the Catholic Church in Belgium. Furthermore, their involvement in the Church mostly takes place in what can be considered gender stereotypical domains, such as education and care-providing services. This article explores how Catholic lay women navigate the Belgian Catholic Church and how they reconcile their relig…
Living a Catholic Life
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
Thinking Religion in Place
The Journal for the Academic Study of Religion (JASR) was founded—under the title of the Australian Religion Studies Review (ARSR)—some 35 years ago in 1988 and renamed in 2013. Now, the co-editors are relaunching the journal: this time, our name remains the same, but our song is changing. Our hope is to make the JASR distinctive in the religious studies publishing landscape. Although there are many high-quality journals in our field, we want to …
Stealing My Religion
Catholic Women as Subjects of Debate
Through the analysis of empirical material that discusses women’s positions in religion in Flanders/Belgium, this article shows how local religion/secular dynamics are co-constituted by issues of race and gender. Starting from the premise that religious women’s (self-)positioning must be understood from a critical perspective on both secularity and race, we show how a.) mainstream secular and racialising discourses aim to discipline various relig…
Dis/closures of positionality
This article argues that researchers should consider positionality not as a one-time declaration of social identity, but as an ongoing practice of epistemic suspicion that reveals how our knowledge is shaped not only by who we are, but also by the historically sedimented structures that make us intelligible as ‘knowers’ in the first place. We bring empirical material collected in an ethnographic study on race, (in)equality, and discrimination int…
Roundtable
In Religion and Gender ’s fifteenth year, this roundtable piece by the editors reflects on our history and the times in which we are working. The piece responds to three questions: 1) How has the scholarly field developed during the first fifteen years of Religion and Gender ? 2) How can we respond to the current economic and political context? 3) What challenges and opportunities does the future hold for religion and gender scholarship, and for …
Keeping Women in Their Digital Place
Women and the Catholic Church
Sociology (11 obras) · Religion and Society Interactions (9 obras) · Gender Studies (8 obras) · Political science (8 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Psychology (6 obras) · Religion, Society, and Development (6 obras) · Anthropology (5 obras) · Philosophy (5 obras) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (4 obras)