Centre for Women's Studies Theology

Coordinator: Reimund Bieringer

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Description

Having its origin in "Women in Theology", a group of students and assistants who came together from 1989, the foundation of the Centre for Women’s Studies Theology (CWST) as an interdisciplinary academic centre goes back to the academic year 1994-1995. The Centre stimulates research and debate from a feminist perspective. It engages itself in making known the results of this research to the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies and others who may be interested. For example, the Centre wants to encourage awareness of gender issues in the education of students and the formation of researchers. This awareness is made concrete in the organisation of the course "Women Studies: Religion and Theology", the organisation of lectures and study days, and suggestions to the library for specialised literature.
 
The Centre pays attention to specific problems of female students and staff members of the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies. One of these specific problems includes the use of inclusive language in communication within the Faculty, in courses, theses and publications. Furthermore the Centre seeks to support and encourage existing networks of women at a university level.
               
 
 

Members

 
Membership of the Centre is open to everyone interested, including students, assistants and professors of KULeuven and other universities, as well as those who do not have any official links with an academic institution but are willing to commit their time and energy to get involved in the Centre.
 

Recent Publications

  • D. Kurek-Chomycz, "Sincerity and Chastity for Christ: A Textual Problem in 2 Cor. 11:3 Reconsidered", Novum Testamentum, 49 (2007) 54-84.
  • R. Bieringer, "Women and Leadership in Romans 16. The Leading Roles of Phoebe, Prisca and Junia in Early Christianity, Part II", East Asian Pastoral Review, 44 (4) (2007) 316-336.
  • R. Bieringer, "Women and Leadership in Romans 16. The Leading Roles of Phoebe, Prisca, and Junia in Early Christianity", East Asian Pastoral Review, 44 (3) (2007) 221-237.
  • R. Bieringer, I. Vanden Hove, Mary Magdalene in the Four Gospels, Louvain Studies, 32 (2007) 186-254.
  • R. Bieringer, B. Baert, K. Demasure (eds.) Noli me tangere: new interdisciplinary perspectives. Bibliotheca Ephemeridum theologicarum Lovaniensium, Leuven: Peeters, 2012
  • R. Bieringer, B. Baert, K. Demasure (eds.), To Touch or Not to Touch: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Noli me tangere, Annua Nuntia Lovaniensia, 67, Leuven - Paris - Walpole MA: Peeters, 2012.

Dissertations

Since 1969, there is a growing number of women who receive their STD/PhD at the Faculty of Theology. Women who receive an honorary doctorate from KULeuven are unfortunately a minority, with for instance Catherine Verfaille in 2003, Carla del Ponte in 2002 and Sister J. Devos in 2000.

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