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PANEL: THE REFORMATIONS AND WOMEN: EQUALITY, AGENCY, AND GENDER VIS-À-VIS RELIGION

01/07/2026 09:00 - 11:10

HALL: Pola - A203

This panel examines the impact of the Reformations (Protestant and Catholic) on women's religious lives and equality in the early modern Europe. The multiauthored volume "Women Reformers in the Early Modern Europe: Profiles, Contexts, and Texts" (2022) serves as the foundation for interdisciplinary critical discourse on theological grounds - and obstacles - for gender equality and the historical evidence vis-a-vis women's agency in the religious scene of the 16th century.

143.1 "WOMEN AT THE CENTER, AND NOT IN THE MARGINS: TRAJECTORIES IN SCHOLARSHIP"

Stjerna K. *

Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary of California Lutheran University ~ Berkeley ~ United States of America

143.2 "SIXTEENTH-CENTURY WOMEN DOING ANABAPTISM: MANAGING FAITH, FAMILY AND FORTUNE"

Räisänen-Schröder P. , Räisänen-Schröder P. *

University of Helsinki ~ Helsinki ~ Finland

143.3 "MEN AND MASCULINITIES IN 16TH CENTURY GERMAN WOMEN'S CONFESSIONAL WRITINGS: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON (IN)EQUALITY?"

Mikkola S. , Mikkola S. *

University of Eastern Finland ~ Joensuu ~ Finland

143.4 "BLAMED AND SHAMED: UNMARRIED SINGLE MOTHERS IN 16TH-CENTURY LEGAL TEXTS AND SOCIAL REFORMS."

Mäkinen V. *

University of Finland ~ Helsinki ~ Finland