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.