GENDER PERSPECTIVES IN RELIGIOUS STUDIES

• Main Author: Freire, Ana Ester Pádua
• Publication Date: 2018
• Format: Article
• Language: por
• Source: Interações (Uberlândia. Online)
• Download full: http://periodicos.pucminas.br/index.php/interacoes/article/view/17658
• topic: Feminist epistemology; Feminist religious studies; Gender; Epistemologia feminista; Ciência feminista da religião; Gênero

Since the twentieth century, feminism has proposed different approaches to scientific making. The reassignments feminism imputes to science pass through a feminist critique of the notions of subject and object of study. In this sense, it would be possible to think about the contributions of the feminist sciences to the study of the religious phenomenon, after all, the feminine gender present in the religions drives changes, since women are open to the new references that history and life suggest. Presenting possible relations between feminism and science, the present article proposes a feminist epistemology that contributes to the study of the Religious Studies, because when they use the feminist theoretical reference, they rescue the women from their invisibility, interpreting them from the of its existence.