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Research on religion and gender (and in practice, often, religion and women) has, by now, a history that is several decades long. The central approaches within this field of inquiry are feminist theology, secularist-critical feminist study, and analytic descriptions of gendered religious beliefs and practices in different times and places. Over the years, this research field has opened up various new thematic and methodological routes and taken several critical and creative turns.1
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Utriainen, T., Salmesvuori, P., Kupari, H. (2014). Introduction: Critical and Creative Turns. In: Utriainen, T., Salmesvuori, P. (eds) Finnish Women Making Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137383471_1
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