03/07/2026 16:10 - 19:30

HALL: Pola - AT12

Contact: Athanasopoulou-Kypriou S.

Chair: Athanasopoulou-Kypriou S., Ernst-Auga U.

This panel builds on the rich body of theological and interdisciplinary scholarship that has critically examined minority perspectives in relation to religion and inequality. It aims to further explore how such perspectives interrogate the production, legitimation, and contestation of social, legal, and gendered inequalities within religious and theological fields. Departing from dominant, "major" theological frameworks that often align with sovereignty, normativity, and institutional power, the panel foregrounds theological practices that emerge from marginal locations, including feminist, queer, postcolonial, decolonial, and other subaltern religious articulations.
Drawing on Bourdieu's analysis of symbolic power as well as scholarship on religion, gender, biopolitics, performativity, and agency, the panel understands theology as a political, embodied, and knowledge-producing practice shaped by unequal regimes of visibility, recognition, and authority. At the same time, it remains attentive to emerging theoretical approaches that question fixed identity frameworks and explore "minor" modes of religious and theological articulation as critical, relational, and transformative practices.
We invite papers that examine how religious traditions, institutions, and discourses both reproduce and resist inequalities related to gender, sexuality, race, class, citizenship, embodiment, and religious diversity. Contributions may address: invisible or normalized inequalities within religious and theological fields; the effects of implicit or invisible religion in social, political, and legal contexts; the politics of theological recognition and exclusion; symbolic power within religious knowledge production; religion as a site of both symbolic violence and emancipatory imagination; and reconfigurations of equality beyond universalist, liberal, or identity-centered paradigms.