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Apparently women in religion have not really made much of a difference in shaping the history of the United States. At least not according to the much-touted PBS special MAKERS: Women Who Make America that premiered in February 2013 with scant coverage of our crowd. Perhaps it is churlish to criticize a major project about […]
I always straddle a line in presidential elections. Voting democrat usually feels like endorsing a failed, corrupt two-party system. So I’ve voted Green Party more than once. But I never did it when I lived in a swing state and knew the election would be close. I abhor Obama’s complicity in the killing of innocents […]
Guest Blog written by Sylvia Macros, Director of the Center for Psychoethnological Research in Cuernavaca, Mexico and International Board member of the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion. At the XIV ALER International Congress on the History of Religions in Latin America, those participating in the panel to honor Dr. Ada María Isasi-Díaz had all known […]
The 11th Annual International Conference of the Institut des Amériques (IDA), 4-6 December, 2013, invites proposals for papers on the theme of “Women in the Americas.” Official Posted Information: A generation of scholars in the humanities and social sciences have paid considerable attention to gender- and women-related issues. This more comprehensive framework, constructing […]
Patriarchy will get unimaginable amounts of free publicity for the next month as the Roman Catholic Church reshuffles the papal deck. Media commentators will fawn over the proceedings triggered by the unexpected resignation of Pope Benedict XVI. Unrivaled displays of kyriarchy will be beamed into our homes as reporters explain piously the ancient rituals of […]
Some people are born to write. Their words seem to flow out of their minds and land so beautifully on their laptop screens. They seem to write effortlessly with their words artistically captured and perfectly written on the pages their printers produce. Their ideas seem magically to appear, profoundly laid out before their eyes. For […]
Reports on the horrific gang rape of a young woman in New Delhi raced around the world in the first two weeks of 2013. Her death shortly after the unbelievably violent rape in a private bus, and the demonstrations protesting the brutal rape and the lack of prosecuting rapists in India produced a global plethora […]
As many Christians including myself, celebrate Christmas, we want to take a moment to pause and reflect upon what it means to celebrate Christmas. As we live in the busyness of getting into the Christmas spirit, the message of the birth of Christ gets lost in the fervor of buying present, decorating the trees and […]
Beverly Wildung Harrison, a feminist religious ethicist, passed away on December 15, 2012. She was the Caroline Williams Beaird Professor of Ethics at the Union Theological Seminary in New York where she taught for three decades. She was the first woman President of the North American Society of Christian Ethics and served on the Board […]
Though we know that it is impossible to make sense out of the senseless, we find ourselves doing so once again when faced with the massacre of 26 kids and teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School here in Connecticut. Twenty of the victims are children who ranged from 5 years old to 10 years old. […]