Religion-gender as mediation of sociality and visibility a case study of women belonging to religious minorities communities in Aragón

Abstract

The text aims to analyse how women from religious minority communities (Muslim, Evangelic and Orthodox ones) living in urban Aragonian contexts see this religious belonging as well as their woman condition, mediate their dynamics of sociability and social visibility. From an ethnomethodological perspective, we conducted discourse analysis to the discourse obtained through in-deep interviews to women who belong to these religious minorities. These women share a common understanding on a visibility signed by a multiple otherness: this derived from their religion, the foreignness associated to it, and their woman condition. At the same time, there is a dual —both emotional and functional— nature to the religious communities as mediation of dynamics of sociability for these women. Visibility and sociability are articulated, to this way, on the mediation derived from the women condition and the religious belonging.

Keywords

• mujer, comunidades religiosas minoritarias, visibilidad, socialidad, inmigración