IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 531: The Social Dynamics of Religious Dissent, I: Gender, Family, and Household
Tuesday 7 July 2020, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Centre for the Digital Research of Religion / Dissident Networks Project (DISSINET), Masarykova univerzita, Brno |
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| Organisers: | Robert Shaw, Oriel College, University of Oxford David Zbíral, Department for the Study of Religions, Masarykova univerzita, Brno |
| Moderator/Chair: | Robert Shaw, Oriel College, University of Oxford |
| Paper 531-a | Life Cycle, Gender, and Heresy: Insights from Social Network Analysis (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Gender Studies, Religious Life, Social History |
| Paper 531-b | Gender, Age, and Marital Status in Lollard Social Networks: An Analysis Based on Heresy Trial Records from Coventry and Kent (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Gender Studies, Religious Life, Social History |
| Paper 531-c | Kinship, Gender, and Social Networks within English Dissident Communities (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Gender Studies, Religious Life, Social History |
| Abstract | The relationship between gender and heresy has been discussed since the Middle Ages themselves. While the idea that women were inherently attracted to religious dissent has been abandoned, a more systematic approach to the importance and roles of men and women remains rare. Similarly, while we know that kinship ties could promote involvement in dissent, analyses of this issue have drawn only from a small portion of the extant sources. This session seeks to build upon these foundations to explore the dynamic interactions that took place between and within genders, among family-members, and in the household in dissident communities. |