Open AccessBeyond formal spaces
Author(s) -
Israel Moura Barroso
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
approaching religion
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.104
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 1799-3121
DOI - 10.30664/ar.91781
Subject(s) - hospitality , secularism , sociology , presentation (obstetrics) , event (particle physics) , residence , novelty , feminism , gender studies , focus (optics) , history , political science , politics , social psychology , law , psychology , tourism , quantum mechanics , medicine , physics , demography , optics , radiology
This text offers some reflections that stem from my participation in the NSU Winter Symposium ‘Feminism and Hospitality: Religious and critical perspectives in dialogue with a secular age’, held in Turku, Finland, 5–7 March 2020. Drawing from my previous experiences both in my native country and in my country of residence, I first explain why this event represented a welcome novelty to me. I then highlight some of its major positive features. I do not offer a resume of the presentations or a collection of some of them. Rather, I focus on what, according to me, is the main strength of this kind of event. Based on the revision of my own presentation, I conclude by saying it may serve as a laboratory from whence to start the construction of bridges through which the dialogue between religion and secularism can really occur.