The Latin American Congress on Gender and Religion gathers researchers, students, community and social movements leaders and public policy makers from several parts of the world, particularly coming from Latin American countries. In 2015, more than 300 people from 20 countries participated in the IV Congress, representing the most diverse sectors.

The main goal of the Congress is to discuss current issues in the field of research, political action and community life in the intersection with the themes of Gender and Religion, from the most diverse areas of knowledge. Besides, at each edition, specific themes are chosen to represent pressing issues that organize the main conferences as well as the general activities of the event. For the V Congress “Ecology- Economy – Ecumenism” were chosen as those themes. According to Nancy Cardoso Pereira:

“Three neighboring words rub at each other here: economy, ecology, ecumenism. The three of them share the oikos: basic social unit (house, but also world). Simplifying: economy → oikos + nomos (law/norm); ecology → oikos + logos (comprehension/study); ecumenism → oikos + form of the feminine passive participle (inhabited/habitants). They are, this way, three forms of being in the world and organizing life in the world. While economy disposes, normatizes about the ways of production of life in relation to the world, ecology seeks to understand those relations and their logic and implications and ecumenism asks itself for the ways (objective and subjective) of occupation/life in the world”.

Besides thinking about those three themes in relation to Gender and Religion, the V Congress also takes place in the context of the calendar of events related to the 500 years of Protestant Reformation. In this sense, it intends also to discuss the impacts and the meanings of the Reformation of the XVI century in several areas of knowledge and from diverse perspectives from the three themes proposed.

All people, groups, organizations and institutions are, from now on, invited to participate in the process of construction of this event that, besides being a space for academic and scientific reflection, intends to be a great gathering for the exchange of knowledges and construction of alternatives.

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