Sian Hawthorne

Programmes Convened

• MA Global Diplomacy: MENA (Online Learning)
• MA Religion in Global Politics (2018)
• MA Religion in Global Politics (2019)

Modules Taught

• 'The Margins of Philosophy': Postcolonial, Gender, and Queer Epistemologies
• Dissertation in Gender Studies and Religion
• Dissertation in Religion in Global Politics
• Metaphysics in Comparative Perspective
• Religion in Global Politics: Theories and Themes

PhD Students supervised

• Amelia Wood, Yoga, Power and Gender: An Investigation into the Abuse of Power by Modern Gurus (working title)
• Amina Khatun, Muslim women mystics: The faith stories of contemporary British Muslim women in the transnational Bani Alawiyya Tarīqa of Hadhramawt
• Avni Chag, Reconfiguring Scripture and Establishing a Sampradāya: The compositional history of the Svāminārāyaṇa Sampradāya’s redacted Śikṣāpatrī (working title)
• Cheuk Yee Wai, The Craft of Affairs: Women and Sexual Liaisons in Late Imperial Chinese Erotic Fictions
• Florence Shahabi, Sayyid Bahodine Majrouh: an intellectual biography
• Jacquelyn P. Strey, Queer Moments, Queer Imaginings: The everyday activism of queer women in India
• Jens Augspurger, Spiritual Soft Powers and the Processes of Kinship Romanticism: A Comparative Study of Spiritual Practitioners and their Correspondence with Imagined Homeland.
• Kavita Maya, The Politics of British Goddess Spirituality: a feminist and critical race analysis (Working Title)
• Monika Hirmer, Becoming the Goddess: Study of a Contemporary South Indian Tantric Tradition and its Implications for Concepts of Personhood, Gender Relations and Everyday Life
• Ruth Westoby, Gendered constructs in Haṭha Yoga
• Thomas Sparrow, Masculinity and Secularism in Historical and Contemporary Frame
• Yeonju Lee, Korean New Religions and the Construction of Nationalism

Completed PhD Students

Jacqueline Daukes, Female Voices in the Varkari Sampradaya: Gender Constructions in a Bhakti Tradition (2015)

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

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Articles

Hawthorne, Sian Melvill (2018) 'Inhospitable Landscapes: Disciplinary Territories and the Feminist "Paradigm Shift"'. Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions, (19), pp 36-55.

Hawthorne, Sian Melvill (2018) '“Reparative Reading” as Queer Pedagogy'. Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, (34) 1, pp 155-160.

Hawthorne, Sîan Melvill (2015) 'Christianity's Forgetting'. ReOrient: The Journal of Critical Muslim Studies, (1) 1, pp 43-50.

Hawthorne, Sian Melvill and van Klinken, Adriaan (2013) 'Introduction. Catachresis: Religion, Gender, and Postcoloniality'. International Journal of Religion and Gender, (3) 2.

Hawthorne, Sian Melvill (2013) 'Displacements: Religion, Gender, and the Catachrestic Demand of Postcoloniality'. International Journal of Religion and Gender, (3) 2.

Hawthorne, Sian Melvill (2013) 'An Outlaw Ethics for the Study of Religions: Maternality and the Dialogic Subject in Julia Kristeva’s 'Stabat Mater''. Culture and Dialogue, (3) 1, pp 127-151.

Hawthorne, Sian (2011) 'Is There a (M)other in the Text?: Post-theistic Sikh Ontology and the Question of the Phallus'. Method & Theory in the Study of Religions, (23) 2, pp 160-176.

Edited Books or Journals

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

Book Chapters

Hawthorne, Sian Melvill and Auga, Ulrike (2017) 'Homonationalism and the Challenge of Queer Theology'. In: Hawthorne, Sian Melvill, (ed.), Gender: God. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, pp 367-383.

Hawthorne, Sian M. (2017) 'Origin Myths and Temporal Orders'. Gender: God. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Macmillan Reference USA, pp 247-262.

Hawthorne, Sian Melvill (2013) 'Entangled Subjects: Feminism, Religion, and the Obligation to Alterity'. In: Evans, Mary and Hemming, Clare and Henry, Marsha and Johnstone, Hazel and Madhok, Sumi and Wearing, Sadie, (eds.), The Sage Handbook of Feminist Theory. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishers. [Inpress]

Hawthorne, Sian (2009) 'Religion and Gender. 'Contentious Traditions': The Study of Religions and the Gender-Theoretical Critique'. In: Clarke, Peter B., (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp 134-151.

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

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

Hawthorne, Sian (2005) 'Gender and Religion: History of Study'. In: Jones, L., (ed.), Encyclopedia of Religion. Vol. 5.. Detroit: Thomson Gale, pp 3310-18.

Hawthorne, Sian M. (2005) 'Feminism: Feminism, Gender Studies, and Religion'. In: Jones, Lindsay, (ed.), Encyclopedia of Religions, second edition. Farrington Hills, MI: Thompson Gale, pp 3023-3027.

Hawthorne, Sian M. (2005) 'Gynocentrism'. In: Jones, Lindsay, (ed.), Encyclopedia of Religions, second edition. Farrington Hills, MI: Thompson Gale, pp 3719-3721.

Hawthorne, Sian (2004) 'Rethinking Subjectivity in the Gender-Oriented Study of Religions: Kristeva and the 'Subject-in-Process''. In: King, U. and Beattie, T., (eds.), Gender, Religion and Diversity. Cross-Cultural Perspectives. London: Continuum, pp 40-50.

Book Reviews

Hawthorne, Sian Melvill (2012) 'Review of: 'Scottish Orientalists and India: The Muir Brothers, Religion, Education and Empire' by Avril A. Powell'. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, (75) 1, pp 181-183.

Hawthorne, Sian Melvill (2008) 'Review of: 'In Praise of the Whip: A Cultural History of Arousal' by Niklaus Largier'. Culture and Religion, (9) 1, pp 102-105.

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