Moderator: Luciane Lucas dos Santos (CES)
 

Overview
In recent decades, feminist theorists dedicated to studies on post-feminism have emphasised the materialisation of this phenomenon in discourses constituted in the interweaving of neoliberal, neoconservative and anti-feminist ideologies. Although they have great circulation and visibility in the mediatized public sphere, the intersections between post-feminist discourses, subjectivities, and the agency of women in religious contexts are still little explored. Understanding this discussion as important for the current debates on the boundaries between the religious and the secular, this webinar will address these intersections with a focus on the Brazilian evangelical context. To this end, we will shed light on the ambivalent practises of evangelical women in positions of authority and visibility, such as Ana Paula Valadão (Lagoinha Baptist Church) and Cristiane Cardoso (Universal Church of the Kingdom of God), exploring the ways in which they interweave elements of post-feminist grammar and the Pentecostal world-view in the constitution of idealised models of Christian female subjectivity. Based on these reflections, we will discuss this model as a social device for transgressing and/or maintaining the patriarchal status quo, exploring its meanings and possible political uses in neoconservative times.

Bio notes
Nina Rosas is an adjunct professor in the Department of Sociology at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) and is the coordinator of the Postgraduate Programme in Sociology at the same university. She holds a Master's and PhD in Sociology and concluded a doctoral internship at the Center for Religion and Civic Culture in Los Angeles, with a Capes grant. She is currently coordinating the project “The experiences of evangelicals with chronic illness”, funded by FAPEMIG, and is conducting the research “Religion, gender and feminism: a review based on studies of evangelical women”, the result of a productivity grant from CNPq. Rosas is the author of the books: Mulher, pra que religião? Uma crítica aos conselhos conservadores da pastora Ana Paula Valadão (KDP, 2020); and As obras sociais da Igreja Universal: uma análise sociológica (Fino Traço, 2014). She is interested in and publishes on the following topics: religion, evangelicals, gender, sexuality, feminism, politics, the body, and health.

Monise Martinez is a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra, as well as an editor, proofreader, and content producer for books and teaching materials. She has a doctorate in Feminist Studies (UC), a master's degree in Publishing Studies (UA) and a bachelor's degree in Humanities (USP), with internships at the Universidad de Sevilla, the Università Degli Studi di Bergamo and the Gender Studies Centre - PAGU (Unicamp) - the latter two, respectively, with Erasmus+ and FCT funding. Martinez is a member of the team of the Working Group: Polycultures: Religions and Society (CES) and the Gender and Sexuality Working Group of SOPCOM; she was a member of the organising team of the Gender Workshop Series (CES); she worked as a scholarship researcher on the project “Engender: Gender mainstreaming in curricula and pedagogical practices in Portuguese Public Universities”, funded by FCT; and she was a collaborator on the “6th Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) - Brazil”. She works at the intersection of the following themes: religion, evangelical women, media, politics, feminisms and anti-feminisms.

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