BUJS Forum with Beatrice de Gasquet (*part of the Modern Mediterranean Societies Lecture Series)
- Starts: 2:30 pm on Thursday, October 6, 2016
- Ends: 4:30 pm on Thursday, October 6, 2016
Title: "Parité, Politics, and Judaism: The Politics of Equality in Non-Consistorial French Synagogues"
French Judaism has historically been organized through a single institution called the Consistoire. Since the 1990s, both Reform and Masorti (Conservative) synagogues have contested the Consistoire's increasingly Orthodox approach to Judaism. Yet the question of women's role in Jewish rituals has remained divisive even within these more liberal settings. Today, this question is particularly fraught because gender equality has emerged as a new political marker of Frenchness and Republicanism at a time when Islamic gender practices are reviled as un-democratic and un-European. Professor de Gasquet will analyze how these changes in French Judaism and French belonging have impacted the religious orientations and experiences of women and men who choose to worship in non-consistorial synagogues.
Béatrice de Gasquet is an Assistant Professor of sociology at Paris Diderot University in France. Dr. de Gasquet's paper is part of the seminar series, "Religious Identities in Modern Mediterranean Societies." All seminars in this series involve discussion of a pre-circulated paper. The paper can be requested as early as a week before the scheduled event. Requests should be emailed to Dr. Theresa Cooney at ewcjs@bu.edu.
This series is generously supported by the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies, the Jewish Cultural Endowment, the Boston University Center for the Humanities, and the Kaufthal Family Lectureship.
- Location:
- 147 Bay State Road, Second Floor Library