Publications
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In preparation
| The Craft of Comparison. (Book project based on my Ph.D. dissertation) |
| Mommy Nature. Natural Parenting at the Confluence of Religion, Environmentalism and Technology. (Book project based on my postdoctoral research) |
| “Low Tech Lifestyles, High Tech Mediations. Environmentalist Ethics and Fertility Awareness among Natural Parenting Practitioners in Francophone Contexts”. In: Hoover, Stewart & Echchaibi, Nabil (eds). Religion and Media: The Global View. (Currently under review; proceedings of the January 2014 conference on this topic held at the University of Colorado, Boulder). |
Edited volumes
| 2017 | Maternità e Politeismi – Motherhood(s) and Polytheisms (co-edited with Giulia Pedrucci and Marianna Scapini). Bologna: Pàtron. | Download abstracts and TOC |
| 2016 | Mothers and Food. Negotiating Foodways from Maternal Perspectives (co-edited with Tanya M. Cassidy). Bradford: Demeter Press. | |
| 2015 | What’s Cooking, Mom? Narratives about Food and Family (co-edited with Tanya M. Cassidy). Bradford: Demeter Press. |
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
| 2018 | Motherhood(s) and Polytheisms: Epistemological and Methodological Reflections on the Study of Religions, Gender, and Women. Numen 65/4, p. 404-434. (Co-authored with Giulia Pedrucci). | Download PDF |
| 2016 | Lessons in Life on the Verge of Death. Spiritual Mothering in Ai Laṛkī by Hindi Author Krishna Sobti. Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement 7/1, p. 82-99. | Link to article |
| 2015 | A Gendered Bun in the Oven. The Gender-Reveal Party as a New Ritualization during Pregnancy. Studies in Religion / Sciences Religieuses 44, p. 479-500. | Download PDF |
| 2015 | Moving my Brain to Canada. Motherhood and International Mobility as An Academic Career Requirement. Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement 6/2, p. 93-108. | |
| 2015 | Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fool, or Pray. Comparative Perspectives on Gender, Violence and Religion. Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft 23/2, p. 285-319. | |
| 2015 | The In/Visibility of Mothering Against the Norms in Francophone Contexts: Private and Public Discourses in the Mediation of Natural Parenting. Canadian Journal of Communication 50/1, p. 105-124. Special issue on “Visible-Invisible: Religion, Media, and the Public Sphere” edited by Stolow, Jeremy and Boutros, Alexandra. | Download PDF |
| 2012 | De quelques représentations de figures féminines en transaction avec des dieux. Exercice d’exploration thématique différentielle en histoire des religions. Asdiwal, Revue genevoise d’anthropologie et d’histoire des religions 7, p. 205-211. | Lien vers l’article |
| 2008 | (Pasche, Florence). Some Methodological Reflections about the Study of Religions on Video Sharing Websites. Marburg Journal of Religion 13/1. | Download PDF |
| 2008 | Методологические размышления об изучении религий на видеохостингах [= Some methodological reflections about the study of religions on video sharing websites] in Religo. Bulletin of the Moscow Society for the Study of Religions 1, p. 166-175 [in Russian]. | Download PDF |
Contribution to peer-reviewed edited volumes and conference proceedings
| 2020 | “Religions and Mothers.” In: O’Brien Hallstein, Lynn, O’Reilly, Andrea and Vandenbeld Giles, Melinda (eds). The Routledge Companion to Motherhood. London – New York: Routledge, p. 156-164. | Download PDF |
| 2018 | (With Anna Fedele). “Pushing from the Margins: ‘Natural Childbirth’ in Holistic Spiritualities and Natural Parenting in France and Portugal.” In: Delaporte, Marianne & Martin, Morag (eds). Sacred Inception: Reclaiming the Spirituality of Birth in the Modern World. Lanham: Lexington Books, p. 131-149. | Download PDF |
| 2017 | “Faire naître et faire croître. Les figures maternelles de Devakī et Yaśodā dans la poésie dévotionnelle hindoue de Sūrdās”. In: Pasche Guignard, Florence, Pedrucci, Giulia & Scapini, Marianna (eds). Maternità e Politeismi – Motherhood(s) and Polytheisms. Bologna: Pàtron, p. 383-396. | Available soon |
| 2017 | “The Academic Study of Religions and Mothering, Motherhood and Mothers”. In: Pasche Guignard, Florence, Pedrucci, Giulia & Scapini, Marianna (eds). Maternità e Politeismi – Motherhood(s) and Polytheisms. Bologna: Pàtron, p. 61-88. | Available soon |
| 2016 | “Reading Hindu Devotional Poetry through Maternal Theory: Maternal Thinking and Maternal Figures in Bhakti Poetry of Sūrdās”. In: Reimer, Vanessa (ed.). Angels on Earth. Mothering, Religion and Spirituality. Bradford: Demeter Press, p. 163-180. | Download PDF |
| 2016 | “Nurturing the Sustainable Family. Natural Parenting and Environmentalist Foodways in Francophone Contexts”. In: Pasche Guignard, Florence & Cassidy, Tanya M. (eds). Mothers and Food. Negotiating Foodways from Maternal Perspectives. Bradford: Demeter Press, p. 55-69. | Download PDF |
| 2016 | (With Tanya M. Cassidy). “Introduction”. In: Pasche Guignard, Florence & Cassidy, Tanya M. (eds). Mothers and Food. Negotiating Foodways from Maternal Perspectives. Bradford: Demeter Press, p. 1-8. | Download PDF |
| 2015 | “Mediated Babywearing as Aesthetic Orthodoxy”. In: Coats, Curtis & Emerich, Monica (eds). Practical Spiritualities in a Media Age. London-New York: Bloomsbury, p. 17-34 (+notes p. 210-212). | Download PDF |
| 2013 | “‘Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend’: The Female Body and Ornaments in Mīrābāī’s Padāvalī”. In: Bangha, Imre (ed.). Bhakti Beyond the Forest. Current Research on Early Modern Literatures in North India, 2003–2009. Papers Presented at the Tenth International Bhakti Conference: Early Modern Literatures in North India held at Sapientia, Hungarian University of Transylvania, Miercurea Ciuc, Romania between 22-24 July 2009. New Delhi: Manohar, p. 315-344. | |
| 2012 | “Learn and Play the Holy Way. Religious Toys and Dolls in the Construction of Religious Gender Identity and Values”. In: Bornet, Philippe &Burger, Maya (eds). Religions in Play. Games, Rituals, and Virtual Worlds. Zürich: PANO Verlag, p. 197-219. | |
| 2011 | « Poison, serpent et lit de ronces. Le corps féminin entre violence et sacrifice dans la bhakti de Mirabai ». In: Prescendi, Francesca & Nagy,Agnes (ed.). Victimes au féminin. Genève: Georg, Coll. L’Equinoxe, p. 195-213. | |
| 2011 | “Religious Rituals on Video Sharing Websites”. In: Brosius, Christiane & Polit, Karin (eds). Reflexivity, Media and Visuality. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. Series: Ritual Dynamics and the Science of Ritual, vol. IV, section II – Ritual and Media, p. 339-355. | |
| 2010 | “‘Go West, Mīrā!’ Translating Medieval Bhakti Poetry”. In: Burger, Maya & Pozza, Nicola (eds). India in Translation through Hindi Literature. A Plurality of Voices. Bern: Peter Lang. Coll. Süd und Zentralasatische Welten, p. 195-234. | |
| 2008 | (Pasche Florence). « ‘La vie dans l’oeuvre ?’ Le biographique et l’hagiographique dans les récits sur la vie et l’oeuvre de la poétesse indienne Mirabai ». In: “La vie et l’oeuvre”? Recherches sur le biographique. Actes du colloque de relève organisé par la Formation doctorale interdisciplinaire de la Faculté des lettres, en partenariat avec les Sections de français, d’histoire et d’histoire de l’art, Université de Lausanne, les 8 et 9 novembre 2007. Edités par Philippe KAENEL, Jérôme MEIZOZ, François ROSSET & Nelly VALSANGIACOMO avec la collaboration de Panayota BADINOU, p. 69-97. | Link to PDF |
| 2005 | Borgeaud, Philippe & Pasche, Florence. « Monsieur le Minotaure et son point de vue ». In: Les mythes de Dürrenmatt. Dessins et manuscrits. Genève: Fondation Bodmer, Skira editore, p. 195-207. Collection Charlotte Kerr Dürrrenmatt. |
Other contributions to academic journals and edited volumes
| 2017 | « Parentage naturel : Couches lavables et nouveaux rituels » [Interview by Stephanie Majerus]. Woxx | déi aner wochenzeitung | l’autre hebdomadaire | Luxembourg. Mis en ligne le lundi 6 mars 2017 (Downloadable PDF with the published and the preparatory interviews). | Download PDF |
| 2015 | “Scary Candy, Goldfish Crackers, and Kale Chips. Feeding and Parenting our New Canadian Daughter in Toronto”. In: Pasche Guignard, Florence & Cassidy, Tanya M. (eds). What’s Cooking, Mom? Narratives about Food and Family. Bradford: Demeter Press. P. 138-148. (Written in collaboration with Guignard, Thomas). | |
| 2015 | (With Tanya M. Cassidy). “Introduction”. In: Cassidy,Tanya M. & Pasche Guignard, Florence (eds). What’s Cooking, Mom? Narratives about Food and Family. Bradford: Demeter Press. P. 1-8. | Download PDF |
| 2014 | “Translating Foodways across Language, Culture and the Atlantic Ocean: A Newcomer’s View about Canadian Foodways.” Canadian Food Cultures / Cuizine : revue des cultures culinaires au Canada 5/2. | |
| 2012 | Interview in: « Portraits. Un rapport individualisé à la précision ». Hémisphères. La revue suisse de la recherche et de ses applications 3, June 2012, p. 30. | |
| 2012 | « Blessing Way – ritualiser la procréation ». Universitas. Le magazine de l’université de Fribourg 04, June 2012, p. 36-37. | Download PDF |
Encyclopedia entry
| 2013 | “Pic, Anne-Sophie”. In: Zeiss Stange, Mary, Oyster, Carol K. & Sloane, Jane E. (eds). The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today’s World. Second Edition. Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, (online resource, ISBN: 9781452270388) |
Translations
| 2007 | (Pasche, Florence). « Trishanku » (A translation of the short story Trishanku by Mannu Bhandari). In: Pozza, Nicola (éd.) Une autre vie. Un siècle de nouvelles hindi. Gollion: Infolio, p. 41-68. | |
| 2007 | (Pasche, Florence). « Dieu est un homme » (A translation from the short story Purush Bhagvân by Yashpal). In: Pozza, Nicola (éd.) Une autre vie. Un siècle de nouvelles hindi. Gollion: Infolio, p. 195-202. |
Book reviews
| 2017 | A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resists Industrialization by Barbara Katz Rothman. Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement 8/1-2, p. 371-372. | Link to PDF |
| 2013 | South Asian Mothering. Negotiating Culture, Family and Selfhood by Jasjit K. Sangha & Tahira Gonsalves. South Asia Research 33/3, p. 265-268. | Download PDF |
| 2011 | Toying with God. The World of Religious Toys and Dolls by Nikki Bado-Fralick & Rebecca Sachs Norris. Numen 58/4, p. 597-601. | |
| 2008 | E-Religion. A Critical Appraisal of Religious Discourse on the World Wide Web by Anastasia Karaflogka. Numen 55/5, p. 620-624. | |
| 2006 | (Pasche, Florence). Women’s Religious Activity in the Roman Republic by Celia E. Schultz. Numen 53/4, p. 520-526. |