Department of Religions, Department of Philosophy & School of History, Religions and Philosophies

Dr Sian Hawthorne

Key information

Roles: Department of Religions Department of Philosophy Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Religion and Politics
Department: Department of Religions, Department of Philosophy & School of History, Religions and Philosophies
Qualifications: PhD (London)
Building: Russell Square: College Buildings
Office: 337
Email address: sh79@soas.ac.uk
Telephone number: 020 7898 4215

Biography

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Research interests

Narrativity; Cultural Memory; Religion and Gender; Feminist Historiography; Postcolonial theory; Postsecularism and gender; Intellectual history in the study of religions.

PhD Supervision

Name	Title
Rumi Dahar
Stewart Gilchrist	Hindutva : Saffron Yoga and the expiration of ahiṃsā
Amelia Louise Wood	Abuses of Power in Modern Transnational Yoga

Publications

Calls, Invitations, Summons: ‘Gender’ in the aftermath of Politics of Piety

Hawthorne, Sian, 2019, Radical Philosophy (2), 5, pp 54-59

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At the Edge of Time: Postcolonial Temporalities in An Intimate Rebuke

Hawthorne, Sian, 2019, Journal of Africana Religions (7), 2, pp 291-299

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Inhospitable Landscapes: Disciplinary Territories and the Feminist "Paradigm Shift"

Hawthorne, Sian, 2018, Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions (19), pp 36-55

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“Reparative Reading” as Queer Pedagogy

Hawthorne, Sian, 2018, Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion (34), 1, pp 155-160

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Christianity's Forgetting

Hawthorne, Sian, 2015, ReOrient: The Journal of Critical Muslim Studies (1), 1, pp 43-50

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Displacements: Religion, Gender, and the Catachrestic Demand of Postcoloniality

Hawthorne, Sian, 2013, Religion and Gender (3), 2

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Introduction. Catachresis: Religion, Gender, and Postcoloniality

Hawthorne, Sian and van Klinken, Adriaan, 2013, Religion and Gender (3), 2

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An Outlaw Ethics for the Study of Religions: Maternality and the Dialogic Subject in Julia Kristeva’s 'Stabat Mater'

Hawthorne, Sian, 2013, Culture and Dialogue (3), 1, pp 127-151

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Review of: 'Scottish Orientalists and India: The Muir Brothers, Religion, Education and Empire' by Avril A. Powell

Hawthorne, Sian, 2012, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (75), 1, pp 181-183

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Is There a (M)other in the Text?: Post-theistic Sikh Ontology and the Question of the Phallus

Hawthorne, Sian, 2011, Method and Theory in the Study of Religion (23), 2, pp 160-176

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Review of: 'In Praise of the Whip: A Cultural History of Arousal' by Niklaus Largier

Hawthorne, Sian, 2008, Culture and Religion (9), 1, pp 102-105

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Gender: God

Hawthorne, Sian, (ed.) (2017). Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA. (Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks)

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Origin Myths and Temporal Orders

Hawthorne, Sian (2017). In: Hawthorne, Sian, (ed.), Gender: God. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Macmillan Reference USA, pp 247-262

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Homonationalism and the Challenge of Queer Theology

Hawthorne, Sian and Auga, Ulrike (2017). In: Hawthorne, Sian, (ed.), Gender: God. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, pp 367-383

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Genealogical Fictions: Origins Myths and Temporal Orders

Hawthorne, Sian (2017). In: Hawthorne, Sian, (ed.), Gender: God. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA

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Entangled Subjects: Feminism, Religion, and the Obligation to Alterity

Hawthorne, Sian (2013). In: Evans, Mary, (eds.), Hemmings, Clare, (eds.), Henry, Marsha, (eds.), Johnstone, Hazel, (eds.), Madhok, Sumi, (eds.) and Wearing, Sadie, (eds.), The Sage Handbook of Feminist Theory. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications

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Religion and Gender. 'Contentious Traditions': The Study of Religions and the Gender-Theoretical Critique

Hawthorne, Sian (2009). In: Clarke, Peter B., (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp 134-151

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Western Feminism

Hawthorne, Sian (2007). In: Malti-Douglas, Fedwa, (ed.), Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender. Farrington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference, Thomson Gale

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Religion and Gender

Hawthorne, Sian (2007). In: Malti-Douglas, Fedwa, (ed.), Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender. Farrington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference, Thomson Gale

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Feminism: Feminism, Gender Studies, and Religion

Hawthorne, Sian (2005). In: Jones, Lindsay, (ed.), Encyclopedia of Religions. Farrington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, pp 3023-3027

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Gynocentrism

Hawthorne, Sian (2005). In: Jones, Lindsay, (ed.), Encyclopedia of Religions. Farrington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, pp 3719-3721

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Gender and Religion: History of Study

Hawthorne, Sian (2005). In: Jones, Lindsay, (ed.), Encyclopedia of Religion. Vol. 5.. Detroit: Thomson Gale, pp 3310-18

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Rethinking Subjectivity in the Gender-Oriented Study of Religions: Kristeva and the 'Subject-in-Process'

Hawthorne, Sian (2004). In: King, U., (eds.) and Beattie, T., (eds.), Gender, Religion and Diversity. Cross-Cultural Perspectives. London: Continuum, pp 40-50

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Cosmic Households and Primordial Creativity: Worlding the World with (and as) Devī in a Contemporary Indian Śrīvidyā Tradition

Hirmer, Monika (2022), PhD thesis, SOAS

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The Upside-down Kingdom of God : A Disability Studies Perspective on Disabled People’s Experiences in Churches and Theologies of Disability

Jacobs, Naomi Lawson (2019), PhD thesis, SOAS

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Narrating Christianity, living 'fulfilled lives': the young women's Christian association in Kenya, 1912-2012

Higgs, Eleanor Tiplady (2018), PhD thesis, SOAS

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Owning the future : demonology and the architecture of sovereignty in a time of terror

O'Donnell, S. Jonathon (2015), PhD thesis, SOAS

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Female voices in the Vārkarī sampradāya : gender constructions in a bhakti tradition

Daukes, Jacqueline (2014), PhD thesis, SOAS

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Damaged bodies: women’s agency in trecento Florentine soteriological discourses

Langsdale, Samantha (2014), PhD thesis, SOAS

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'Why vote for a fake kinnar when you can vote for a real one?’: representation and political identity among kinnars in Madhya Pradesh, India

Ung Loh, Jennifer (2013), PhD thesis, SOAS

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Exile from exile: the representation of cultural memory in literary texts by exiled Iranian Jewish women

Langer, Jennifer (2013), PhD thesis, SOAS

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Lesbian Buddhism?

Rylance, Valerie J. (2011), PhD thesis, SOAS

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Origins, Genealogies, and the Politics of Mythmaking: Towards a Feminist Philosophy of Myth

Hawthorne, Sian (2006), PhD thesis, SOAS

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Contact Sian

Email: sh79@soas.ac.uk
Telephone: 020 7898 4215

Dr Sian Hawthorne

Key information

Biography

Research interests

PhD Supervision

Publications

Contact Sian

School of History, Religions and Philosophies

Jaina-Prosopography: Monastic Lineages, Networks and Patronage

MA History

Dr Sian Hawthorne

Key information

Biography

Research interests

PhD Supervision

Publications

Articles Open

Calls, Invitations, Summons: ‘Gender’ in the aftermath of Politics of Piety

At the Edge of Time: Postcolonial Temporalities in An Intimate Rebuke

Inhospitable Landscapes: Disciplinary Territories and the Feminist "Paradigm Shift"

“Reparative Reading” as Queer Pedagogy

Christianity's Forgetting

Displacements: Religion, Gender, and the Catachrestic Demand of Postcoloniality

Introduction. Catachresis: Religion, Gender, and Postcoloniality

An Outlaw Ethics for the Study of Religions: Maternality and the Dialogic Subject in Julia Kristeva’s 'Stabat Mater'

Review of: 'Scottish Orientalists and India: The Muir Brothers, Religion, Education and Empire' by Avril A. Powell

Is There a (M)other in the Text?: Post-theistic Sikh Ontology and the Question of the Phallus

Review of: 'In Praise of the Whip: A Cultural History of Arousal' by Niklaus Largier

Edited book or Journal Volume Open

Gender: God

Book Chapters Open

Origin Myths and Temporal Orders

Homonationalism and the Challenge of Queer Theology

Genealogical Fictions: Origins Myths and Temporal Orders

Entangled Subjects: Feminism, Religion, and the Obligation to Alterity

Religion and Gender. 'Contentious Traditions': The Study of Religions and the Gender-Theoretical Critique

Western Feminism

Religion and Gender

Feminism: Feminism, Gender Studies, and Religion

Gynocentrism

Gender and Religion: History of Study

Rethinking Subjectivity in the Gender-Oriented Study of Religions: Kristeva and the 'Subject-in-Process'

Thesis Open

Cosmic Households and Primordial Creativity: Worlding the World with (and as) Devī in a Contemporary Indian Śrīvidyā Tradition

The Upside-down Kingdom of God : A Disability Studies Perspective on Disabled People’s Experiences in Churches and Theologies of Disability

Narrating Christianity, living 'fulfilled lives': the young women's Christian association in Kenya, 1912-2012

Owning the future : demonology and the architecture of sovereignty in a time of terror

Female voices in the Vārkarī sampradāya : gender constructions in a bhakti tradition

Damaged bodies: women’s agency in trecento Florentine soteriological discourses

'Why vote for a fake kinnar when you can vote for a real one?’: representation and political identity among kinnars in Madhya Pradesh, India

Exile from exile: the representation of cultural memory in literary texts by exiled Iranian Jewish women

Lesbian Buddhism?

Origins, Genealogies, and the Politics of Mythmaking: Towards a Feminist Philosophy of Myth

Contact Sian

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