I contribute to the international research project Beyond Mother Goddesses: New Directions for International Scholarship on Motherhood in Religious Studies, led by a team of four researchers working collaboratively to explore new paths of research in religious studies on the topic of mothers, motherhood and mothering. This project is funded by the 2021 Collaborative International Research Grant of the American Academy of Religion. This website presents the process and results of the project: beyondmg.study
Four interviews are already available on the website:
Interview with Massimo Cultraro, Archaeologist, Research Director of CNR (Italy) and Professor at the University of Palermo (Italy), about the chapter « Maternità asimmetriche: meccanismi di riproduzione-produzione sociale e dinamiche simboliche nella Grecia micena » in Maternità e Politeismi / Motherhood(s) and Polytheisms (Pàtron, 2017, p. 89-106), recorded by Giulia Pedrucci on July 26, 2021 and published on October 4, 2021.
A translation will be available shortly.
Interview with Amrita Nandy (PhD, independent researcher) about her book Motherhood and Choice: Uncommon Mothers, Childfree Women (Zubaan, 2017), recorded by Sucharita Sarkar on September 11, 2021 and published on September 27, 2021.
Transcription of the interview (PDF, English)
Interview with Professor Karen Derris (Redlands University) about her article « Interpreting Buddhist Representations of Motherhood and Mothering » (Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 30/2 (2014), p. 61-79), recorded by Pascale Engelmajer on August 17, 2021 and published on September 20, 2021.
Transcription of the interview (PDF, English)
Interview with Professor Francis X. Clooney (Harvard Divinity School) about his book Divine Mother, Blessed Mother: Hindu Goddesses and the Virgin Mary (Oxford University Press, 2005), recorded by Florence Pasche Guignard on August 3, 2021 and published on September 13, 2021.
Transcription of the interview (PDF, English)