IAHR-WSN

This network has been founded in 2006 by IAHR Past President Rosalind I. J. Hackett and former IAHR Executive Committee member Morny Joy to provide a forum for women in Religious Studies throughout the world to be in contact with one another.

Women Scholars Network

Steering Committee

Milda AlišauskienėMilda Ališauskienė

Associate Professor, PhD
Department of Sociology
Vytautas Magnus University
Jonavos 66, Kaunas 44191
Lithuania

E-mail: m.alisauskiene@smf.vdu.lt 
Website: https://vdu-lt.academia.edu/MildaAlisauskiene

Areas of Specialization

  • Sociology of religion
  • religious diversity and religious fundamentalism
  • new religions
  • new religious movements 

Areas of Interest

  • Religion and gender 

Major Relevant Publications

  • Ališauskienė, M. 2009. Spirituality and Religiosity in the Art of Living Foundation in Lithuania and Denmark: Meanings, Contexts and Relationships. Subcultures and new religious movements in Russia and East-Central Europe. Eds. Wiliams, Ch., Ramanauskaite, E., McKay, G., Goddard, M., Foxlee, N. Peter Lang. P. 339-364.
  • Ališauskienė, M. 2011. "Freedom of Religion in the Baltic States: a Sociological and Legal Analysis". Spaces and Borders. Current Research on Religion in Central and Eastern Europe. Eds. Andras Mate-Toth, Cosima Rughinis. 133-151. Berlin, New York: Walter De Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-022813-7.
  • Ališauskienė, M. 2012. The New Age Milieu in Lithuania: Popular Catholicism or Religious Alternative? Religious Diversity in Post-Soviet Society Ethnographies of Catholic Hegemony and the New Pluralism in Lithuania. Eds. Milda Ališauskienė & Ingo W. Schröder. 151-168. Surrey: Ashgate.
  • Ališauskienė, M. 2012. Religious education in Lithuania. The Routledge International Handbook of Religious Education. Eds. Derek H. Davis & Elena Miroshnikova. Oxon: Routledge. 212-216.
  • Ališauskienė, M., Schröder, I.W. (eds.) 2012. Religious Diversity in Post-Soviet Society Ethnographies of Catholic Hegemony and the New Pluralism in Lithuania. Surrey: Ashgate 

Other Information of Interest

  • Since 2001 a co-founder and member of the board of New Religions Research and Information Centre.
  • Since 2001 - The International Study of Religion in Eastern and Central Europe Association (ISORECEA), since 2014 – General Secretary.
  • Since 2005 – member of Lithuanian Sociological Association, since 2011 - member of council.
  • Since 2011 – head of the board of Lithuanian Society for the Study of Religions (LSSR).
  • Since 2012 – member of European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR).
  • Since 2012 – member of International Association for History of Religions (IAHR). Since 2009 – member of International Society for the Study of New Religions, since 2013 – Vice-President