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Gina Messina (born 1975), previously known as Gina Messina-Dysert, is an American religious studies and women's studies scholar and activist. She gives particular attention to gender issues in religion. [1] [2] Messina is co-founder of Feminism and Religion, [1] which she founded in 2011 with Caroline Kline, Xochitl Alvizo, and Cynthia Garrity ...
The first wave of feminism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries included an increased interest in the place of women in religion. [16] Women who were campaigning for their rights began to question their inferiority both within the church and in other spheres, which had previously been justified by church teachings. [ 17 ]
In between an Adventist Church and a parish church belonging to the Church of Norway in the coastal town of Haugesund lies the Haugesund Public Library which proved the setting for the first major ...
Judith Plaskow (born March 14, 1947) is an American theologian, author, and activist known for being the first Jewish feminist theologian. [1] After earning her doctorate at Yale University, she taught at Manhattan College for thirty-two years before becoming a professor emerita.
Feminism and Religion: How Faiths View Women and Their Rights. Praeger. ISBN 978-1-4408-3888-0. Payne, Philip Barton (2023). The Bible vs. Biblical Womanhood: How God's Word Consistently Affirms Gender Equality. Zondervan. ISBN 978-0-310-14031-3. Sawyer, Deborah F. (1996). Women and Religion in the First Christian Centuries. Routledge.
Grenz and Olson view the steps of feminist theology in threes: first, feminist theologians critique the treatment of women in the past, second, they determine alternative biblical/religious texts that support feminist ideologies, and third, they claim the theology that adheres to such standards, through reclamation, abolishment, and/or revision ...
Hermeneutics of feminism in Islam is a system of interpreting the sacred texts of that religion, the Quran and Sunnah. Hermeneutics [ 1 ] is the theory and methodology of interpretation, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] especially of sacred texts, [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and Islamic feminism has a long history upon which to draw.
Catholic Woman Religious, Professor Emerita of Theology Elizabeth A. Johnson CSJ (born December 7, 1941) is a Roman Catholic feminist theologian . [ 1 ] She is a Distinguished Professor Emerita of Theology at Fordham University , a Jesuit institution in New York City and a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Brentwood.