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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.
Shergill is an advisory board member on the Sikh Feminist Research Institute (SAFAR), and in 2012, was appointed Queen's Counsel for her community services. [21] Jody Wilson-Raybould , the minister of justice and attorney general in Canada, appointed Shergill as judge for her human rights advocacy and leadership positions.
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 ...
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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.
children's tales. "The classic fairy tale was appropriated to serve the purpose of socializing children," writes Tatar, and "the Grimms seem to have favored violence over whimsy." Violence, in the right context, was considered funny to young readers, while explicit references to sex were perceived as superfluous to the story, providing neither ...
Some of the goals of feminist theology include increasing the role of women among clergy and religious authorities, reinterpreting patriarchal (male-dominated) imagery and language about God, determining women's place in relation to career and motherhood, studying images of women in the religions' sacred texts, and matriarchal religion. [1]
[12] [13] Proto-feminist works from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries addressed objections to women learning, teaching and preaching in a religious context. [14] One such proto-feminist was Anne Hutchinson who was cast out of the Puritan colony of Massachusetts for teaching on the dignity and rights of women. [15]