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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.
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 ...
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.
Virginia Ramey Mollenkott, (January 28, 1932 - September 25, 2020) [1] was an American feminist writer. She is known for her "God of the Breasts" interpretation of El Shaddai . She spent her 44-year professional career teaching college level English literature and language, but developed specializations in feminist theology and lesbian , gay ...
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 ]
Kwok was born in Hong Kong to Chinese parents who practiced Chinese folk religion at home. She converted to Anglican Christianity when she was a teenager.. Kwok started her B.A. at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, before moving on to do her BD and MTh at Southeast Asia Graduate School of Theology.
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.
Feminist blogs played a role in the evolution of feminist movements by democratizing access to feminist theories and discussions, thus broadening the scope of who can participate and how. [1] These sites were characterized by their informal yet incisive writing style, and they engaged with a young, predominantly female audience.