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In 2017, Hridith Sudev, an inventor, environmentalist and social activist associated with various youth movements, launched 'The Herstory Movement,' an online platform to "celebrate lesser known great persons; female, queer or otherwise marginalized, who helped shape the modern World History."
According to Stone, the Torah or Old Testament was in many ways a male attempt to re-write the story of human society, changing feminine symbolism to masculine. The book is now seen as having been instrumental in the modern rise of feminist theology in the 1970s to 1980s, along with authors such as Elizabeth Gould Davis , Riane Eisler and ...
The lesser-known Qingwei (清微, Pure Subtlety) school, a tradition that emphasized therapy and exorcism, incorporated a local sect founded by the Taoist priestess Zu Shu (祖舒, fl. 889–904) from Lingling (near present-day Yongzhou, Hunan). [3] Unlike the well-documented biography of Wei Huacun, little is known about Zu.
The earliest known commentary on Sati by Medhātithi of Kashmir argues that Sati is a form of suicide, which is prohibited by the Vedic tradition. [9] Vijñāneśvara , of the 12th-century Chalukya court , and the 13th-century Madhvacharya , argue that Sati should not to be considered suicide, which was otherwise variously banned or discouraged ...
Women were excluded from enacting laws, serving in courts, creating taxes, and supervising land distribution, all of which were government functions. The role of religion was also divided by gender, since nearly every colonist in New England was Christian in some form. In this area, women were also seen as lesser to God than men were.
Maya Angelou quotes about love “Love liberates. It doesn’t just hold, that’s ego. Love liberates.” ...
Desert Mothers Saint Paula and her daughter Eustochium with their spiritual advisor Saint Jerome—painting by Francisco de Zurbarán. Desert Mothers is a neologism, coined in feminist theology as an analogy to Desert Fathers, for the ammas or female Christian ascetics living in the desert of Egypt, Palestine, and Syria in the 4th and 5th centuries AD. [1]
If a man can divorce, so can a woman, but it is better to remain one flesh. Throughout the Gospels, he defends the spirituality of women and gathers both boys and girls around him, curing the ailments of both. In perhaps his best known defense of a woman about to be stoned for adultery he challenges anyone without sin to cast the first stone.