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The workpackage analyses the relationship between women and religion in the 21st century, with the aim of assessing similarities and differences in the ways in which migrant women of different faiths negotiate their religious identities and publicly perform religion in the European public spheres. The research addresses the issue of the new forms of revivalism in an Islamic and in a Christian framework and the ways in which women contribute to the repositioning of religion at the local, national, transnational and sovranational levels, challenging hegemonies and powers inside both their national/religious communities as well as inside European countries.
We do this by focusing on those multiple dynamics that have for a long time been branded as a ‘fundamentalist’ rejection of modernity (certain code of dress, certain ways of eating, meeting, praying…), which in fact represent the strongest contemporary challenges to settled hegemonies and orders.
