 Religious and Theological Perspectives on Women |
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A Woman and Her Self - Self-Actualization and Self-Realization in the 21st Century By Janina Gomes, February 2010 Mary Ward: Then and Now Gemma Simmonds CJ looks at the life and writings of this woman of 'heroic virtue' who wanted to secure a better role for women in the Church and in society, and at how this struggle continues today, in Thinking Faith: The Online Journal of the English Jesuits, January 2010 In Search of the Synagogue, Part V A conversation with Professor Lee Levine on the roles women played in the synagogues of antiquity (3rd century C.E. – 7th century C.E.). Reform Judaism Online, Spring 2009 “Introducing the Category of Gender to Roman Catholic Theology – a Liberal Approach By Angelika Walser in The Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue, 2009 The Pendulum Is Never Static: Jesus Sira to Jesus Christ on Women in the Light of Judith, Susanna and LXX Esther By Pierre Jordaan, Biblical Studies and Ancient Languages, North-West University, South Africa, in HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2009 "As Male and Female He Created Them": Theological Anthropology Aware of 'Gender' By Saskia Wendel, Professor of Systematic Theology at the Institute of Catholic Theology at the University of Cologne, in Herder Korrespondenz, 2009 Women, Honor, and Context in Mediterranean Antiquity By Carolyn Osiek in HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2008 Catholic Feminism: An Oxymoron or 'Deeper Truths?'. The Challenge of Integrating Faith With Reason By Elizabeth R. Schiltz in St. Thomas Lawyer, the magazine of the School of Law of the University of St. Thomas, Winter 2008 Liberating Domesticity: Women and the Home in Orthodox Judaism and Latin American Pentecostalism By Jonathan L. Friedmann, Whittier College, in Journal of Religion & Society, 2008 The Biblical Exegesis of Headship: A Challenge to Patriarchal Understanding That Impinges on Women's Rights in the Church and Society By E Baloyi in Verbum et Ecclesia, 2008 In Pain and Sorrow: Childbirth, Incarnation, and the Suffering of Women By Colleen Carpenter Cullinan in Cross Currents, Spring 2008 The Niger Delta Oil Crisis And The Victimization Of Women: A Socio-Ethnographic Analysis By Amakwe Mary John Bosco Ebere, HSFN, 2008 Mysticism and Feminism in Seventeenth-Century England By Sarah Apetrei in The Way, 2007 Man and Woman have the same Dignity and are Equal: Man as Image of God and Gender Relation in a Christian Perspective By Marianne Heimbach-Steins, professor of Christian social doctrine and general religious sociology at the University of Bamberg, in the periodical of the Catholic Academy in Bavaria 'zur debatte', 2007 Only Obedient Wife and Good Mother? The Position of Women in Islam By Hamideh Mohagheghi, lecturer for Islam at the University of Paderborn, in Herder Korrespondenz, 2007 Women's Role in Healing a Fractured Earth: Faiths Working Together An address given at the ICCJ Women´s Conference, Sydney, Australia, July 2007 Evangelical Gender Ideology: A View from Christianity Today Readers By Thomas V. Frederick, Hope International University, and Jack O. Balswick, Fuller Theological Seminary, in Journal of Religion & Society, 2006 Women Rabbis: A Novel Idea By David J. Zucker in Judaism, Summer-Fall 2006 Battered Hearts and the Trinity of Compassion: Women, the Cross and Kenosis By Mark L. Yenson in The Way, 2006 Imado Dei and Sexual Difference By Janet Martin Soskice in the Proceedings of the Working Group on What Is Our Real Knowledge of the Human Being, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, May 2006 Gaudium et Spes Suggests a Change in Moral Imagination to Ensure the Just Treatment of Women By Marilyn Martone, Ph.D., St. John's University, 2005 Africas Women: A Journey of Hope By Marta D. Bennett in The Other Journal, 2005 Moving toward Wholeness: Women and Religion in the Global World By Judith Narrowe t the Annual Conference of the International Council of Christians and Jews, Chicago, July 2005 Women and the Law of Moses From a syllabus for the course “Women and the Bible,” Beeson Divinity School, Birmingham. AL, by Allen P. Ross, Fall Semester, 2004 Christianity and Women in Japan By Yamaguchi Satoko, Co-Director of the Center for Feminist Theology and Ministry in Japan, in Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 2003 Insiders or Outsiders: Women and Rabbinic Literature By Dvora Weisberg in Judaism, Summer-Fall 2003 The Lonely Woman of Faith By Shira Wolosky in Judaism, Winter-Spring 2003 Gender Co-Operation: Some Implications of God's Design For Society By Michael and Auriel Schluter in Cambridge Papers, June 2003 What Went Wrong? Feminism and Freedom from the Prison of Gender Roles By Rita M. Gross in Cross Currents, Spring 2003 A Patristic Basis for a Theological Anthropology of Women in Their Distinctive Humanity By Constantine Yokarinis in the Anglican Theological Review, Summer 2002 The Eve-Mary Typology and Women in the Orthodox Church: Reconsidering Rhodes By Kyriaki Karidoyanes FitzGerald in the Anglican Theological Review, Summer 2002 The Gender Aspects of Creation from a Theological, Christological, and Soteriological Perspective: An Exegetical Contribution By Urs von Arx in the Anglican Theological Review, Summer 2002 Women Pay the Price By Mary Bosco Ebere Amakwe, HFSN Greek Patristic Foundations for a Theological Anthropology of Women in Their Distinctiveness as Human Beings By Martien Parmentier in the Anglican Theological Review, Summer 2002 The God of Rebekah By Piet Van Boxel in SIDIC Periodical, 2002 Ghanain Christian Woman, Part 1 By Janet Moore M.Div., McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, in BlackandChristian.com, 2002 Ghanain Christian Woman, Part 2 The Book of the Hebrews Revisited: Implications of the Theology of Hebrews for Gender Equality by Ruth Hoppin at the Pacific Coast Region/Society of Biblical Literature meeting, New Testament Epistles and Apocalypse Section, St. Mary's College, Moraga, CA, in March 2002 Female Circumcision By Daniel Karanja in Church Leader in Africa, 2002 Women and Their Mothers: Rejecting and Reclaiming the Tradition of the Saints By Marie Anne Mayeski in the Anglican Theological Review, Spring 2001 African Theology and the Status of Women in Africa By Ian D. Ritchie, presented to the Canadian Theological Society, May 25, 2001 Is Paul the Father of Misogyny and Antisemitism? By Pamela Eisenbaum in CrossCurrents, Winter 2000-01 Aquinas on Women By John Wijngaards in National Catholic Reporter January 14, 2000 Two Women Speaking "Woman": Stategic Essentialism of Irigaray and Palmer By Diane Leclerc in Wesley Theological Journal, 2000 Fulfilling Femininity and Transcending the Flesh: Traditional Religious Beliefs and Gender Ideals in Popular Women's Magazines By Michelle Lelwica. Saint Mary's College of California, in Journal of Religion and Society, 1999 Women and Ecology in Shona Religion By Isabel Mukonyora in Word & World, Summer 1999 Moses / Jesus / Women: Does the New Testament Offer a Feminist Message? By Esther Fuchs in Cross Currents, Winter 1999 The Family: Obstacles to Friendship By Donald X. Burt, OSA. Chapter 2 of Friendship and Society: An Introduction to Augustine's Practical Philosophy, 1999 The Risks of Repeating Ourselves: Reading Feminist / Womanist Figures of Jesus By Karen Trimble Alliaume in Cross Currents, 1998 Feminism and Judaism: Women, Tradition, and the Women's Movement By Joel B. Wolowelsky in Judaism, Fall 1998 Embodying God's Life: Women and Spirituality By Regina Bechtle in The Way, 1998 Faith Walkers: Dalit Women's Spiritual Journey By Fatima Bernard in The Way, 1998 Women--Meeting in Faith By Barbara Butler in The Way, 1998 The Message of Beijing: Challenge to the Church By Joan Chittister in The Way, 1998 Faith Walkers: Dalit Women's Spiritual Journey By Vedamani Epsibai in The Way, 1998 Women and Spirituality: A Latin American Perspective By Ivone Gebara in The Way, 1998 What Have the Popes Said About Women, For Heaven's Sake? By Richard Leonard in The Way, 1998 Making Meaning, Makinf Pleasure: Women and Television By Gaye W. Ortiz in The Way, 1998 Women and Apartheid: Collective Trauma and Social Reconstruction By Tina Sideris in The Way, 1998 A Challenge for Jesuits By Paula Terroni in The Way, 1998 Women Transformed: The Ending of Mark in the Beginning of Wisdom - Mark's Gospels By Marie Sabin in Cross Currents, Summer 1998 The African Experience of God through the Eyes of an Akan Woman By Mercy Amba Oduyoye in Cross Currents, Winter 1997-98 Faith Walkers: Dalit Women's Spiritual Journey By Arul Mary in The Way, 1998 Remembering Who We Are: Women and Ritual By Lizette Larson-Miller in The Way, 1998 "Let women not despair": Rabanus Maurus on Women as Prophets By Marie Anne Mayeski in Theological Studies, June 1997 Feminism & the Family: An Indissoluble Marriage By Mary Ann Glendon in Commonweal, Feb 14, 1997 Between Rhetoric and Reality: Women and Men as Equal Partners By Herbert Anderson, Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, Illinois, in Word & World, Fall 1997 The Paternal Face and the Maternal Mind of Yahweh By Erhard S. Gerstenberger in Word & World, Fall 1997 'Neither male nor female ... in Christ'? Church debates and the politics of identity by Mary McClintock Fulkerson, 1997 Gender & Religion By Kenneth L. Woodward in Commonweal, Nov 22, 1996 Women in the Bible and the Lectionary By Ruth Fox, OSB in Liturgy 90, May-June, 1996 New Respect for Women and the Earth By Anne Lonergan, Compass, A Jesuit Journal, Volume 14 #2, May/June 1996 Patristic Elements Towards a Theological Anthropology of Woman as a Human Being and as Woman in Her Difference from Man By Dr. Constantinos Yokarinis, Warsaw December 1996 Midrash, Bible, and Women's Voices By Norma Rosen in Judaism, Fall 1996 Patristic Elements towards a Theological Anthropology of Woman as a Human Being and as Woman in Her Difference from Man By Dr. Constantinos Yokarinis, Warsaw, December 1996 Women In Ministry: A Biblical Vision By Sharon Clark Pearson in Wesley Theological Journal, 1996 Enculturation and Inculturation: The Gospel of Liberation and the Culture of African Womanhood By Dr U.E. Umoren, C.U.E.A. Vol. 11, No. 3, Sept. 1995 Julian of Norwich's "Christ as Mother" and Medieval Constructions of Gender By Thomas L. Long, English Department, Thomas Nelson Community College, Hampton, VA, March 1995 Women Now Face a Broader Struggle By Agnes Abuom, Compass, A Jesuit Journal, Nov./Dec. 1995 Anti-Judaism in Religious Feminist Writing: Scapegoating on Patriarchy Distorts Theology By Louise and Mark Zwick, Houston Catholic Worker, May-June 1995 The Religious Wounding of Women By Patricia Reilly. Excerpted from A God Who Looks Like Me, Ballantine, 1995 'The Virtuous Woman': New Wine and Old Wineskins By Elizabeth A. Dreyer in The Way, 1995 Woman-Body, Man-Body: Knowing God By Wendy M. Wright in The Way, 1995 The Rehabilitation of Eve in the De institutione uirginis of Ambrose of Milan By Kim E. Power, 1995 St Augustine--A Male Chauvinist? Talk at Cambridge by Fr. Edmund Hill, OP, 1994 Of Godly Men And Medicine: Ancient Biology and the Christian Fathers on the Nature of Woman By Kim E. Power in Woman-Church, Spring 1994 Women's Contribution to Contemporary Spirituality By Ursula King in The Way, 1994 The Defective Male: What Aquinas Really Said By Michael Nolan in New Blackfriars, 1994 Of Godly Men and Medicine: Ancient Biology and the Christian Fathers on the Nature of Woman By Kim E. Power in Woman-Church, Spring 1994 Women want power to imagine and name God by Elizabeth Dodson Gray in National Catholic Reporter, April 1, 1994 "Male Spirituality": A Feminist Evaluation By Elizabeth T. Knuth, May 1993 The Creation of Adam as Hermaphrodite - and Its Implications for Feminist Theology By Azila Talit Reisenberger in Judaism, Fall 1993 The Legitimation of the Abuse of Women in Christianity By Dr. Mary Ann Rossi in Feminist Theology, 1993 The Feminine Image of God in Shusako Endo By Jean Higgins in Suffering: The Stauros Notebook, Winter 1993 The Ministry of Mary Lee Cagle: A Study in Women's History and Religion By Stan Ingersol in Wesley Theological Journal, 1993 Her Share of the Blessings: Women's Religions Among the Pagans, Jews, and Christians in the Greco-Roman World Extensive quotes and summaries of the book by Ross Shepard Kraemer published by Oxford University Press, 1992 Is God A Woman? By Gayle S. Myers, a mother, teacher, and writer from Virginia Beach, Virginia, 1991 The Beguines: Feminine Piety Derailed By Marygrace Peters, O.P. in Spirituality Today, Spring 1991 The Women of the Gospel of Mark and Contemporary Women's Spirituality By Mitzi Minor in Spirituality Today, Summer 1991 Eve: the Mother of All Living By Anne Baring, Chapter 13a from The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image, Penguin Books, 1991 Eve in Christian Culture By Anne Baring, Chapter 13b from The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image, Penguin Books, 1991 Where Can We Find Her? Searching for Women's Identity in the New Church Book edited by Marie-Eloise Rosenblatt, Paulist Press, 1991 Love's Labours Unlost: Women and the Word By Calre Amos in The Way, 1991 Teresa, Feminism, and the Humanity of Christ By Vilma Seelaus in Spirituality Today, Summer 1990 After Eve: Women, Theology and the Christian Tradition Book edited by Janet Martin Soskice and published by Collins Marshal Pickering. 1990 Female Blood: The Ancient Taboo and its Christian Consequences By Uta Ranke-Heinemann in Eunuchs for Heaven, London 1990 Reclaiming Women's Part in Redeeming By Mary Grey. Chapter 7 from Redeeming the Dream: Feminism, Redemption and Christian Tradition, SPCK, London 1989 The Patriarchal Way of Relating By Virginia Ramey Mollenkott, 1989 Freedom from Stereotypes By Virginia Ramey Mollenkott, 1989 Feminism and Spirituality By Catherina Halkes in Spirituality Today, Autumn 1988 Feminism Come of Age By Mary Hull Mohr in Word & World, 1988 Women In African Traditional Religion By John Mbiti in Cahiers des Religions Africaines, 1988 Reclaiming the Turth of Women's Lives: Women and Spirituality By Regina Bechtle in The Way, 1988 Light Shines in the Darkness and the Darkness Has Not Overcome Her: Women and Wisdom By Amy C. Tolpingrud in Word & World, 1987 Trinity and Women's Experience By Barbara Brown Zikmund, dean of Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California, in The Christian Century April 15, l987 Women of the Bible By the editors of SIDIC Periodical, 1987 Woman seen as a 'problem' and as 'solution' in the theological anthropoloqy of the Early Fathers: Considering the Consequences By Dr.Marie-Henry Keane O.P. formerly Prof. in Systematic Theology Dept. of Univ. of South Africa, Pretoria, paper presented to Catholic Theological Society of South Africa, October 1987 Divine Power Made Perfect in Weakness: St. Hildegard on the Frail Sex by Barbara Newman in Peace Weavers, Medieval Religious Women, Cistercian Publications 1987 Why were men considered superior? Chapter 3 of a 1986 book by John Wijngaards, MHM Women's Images of God and Prayer By Jill Robson in The Way, 1986 Bonding: The Critical Praxis of Feminism By Margaret Galiardi in The Way, 1986 The Power of Images By Monica Furlong in The Way, 1986 Female Beyond the Signs By Joan Faber in The Way, 1986 Androgyny and Beyond By Roland Martinson in Word & World, 1985 The Incomprehensibility of God and the Image of God Male and Female By Elizabeth Johnson, C.S.J. in Theological Studies, 1984 Rabbinacal Tradition on the Role of Women By Hayim G. Perelmuter, Chautauqua Professor of Jewish Studies at the Catholic Theological Union, 1984 Women in the Workplace By Penelope Washbourn in Word & World, 1984 The Incomprehensibility of God and the Image of God Male and Female By Elizabeth Johnson, C.S.J., The Catholic University of America, in Theological Studies, 1984 God and Feminism By John B. Cobb, Jr. Chapter 6 of the book Talking About God: Doing Theology in the Context of Modern Pluralism by David Tracy and John B. Cobb, Jr., 1983 The Effects of Women's Experience on Their Spirituality By Sandra M. Schneiders in Spirituality Today, Summer 1983 Contemporary Feminism and Christian Doctrine of the Human By Patricia Wilson-Kastner in Word & World, 1982 Christology and Feminism: Can a Male Saviour Save Women ? By Rosemary Radford Ruether. From To change the World, Crossroad, New York 1981 What Became of God the Mother? Conflicting Images of God in Early Christianity By Elaine H. Pagels, 1979 The Role of Women in Judaism By Jonathan Sacks, 1978 The Role of Women according to Jesus and the Early Church By Robert J. Karris, O.F.M. in Women and Priesthood: Future Directions, 1978 Woman, Human and Ecclesial? By M. Nadine Foley, 1977 A Feminist Perspective on the Jewish Woman By Lucy Y. Steinitz in SIDIC Periodical, 1976 Christian Tradition on Women By Sandra M. Schneiders in SIDIC Periodical, 1976 The God of Rebakah By Piet Van Boxel in SIDIC Periodical, 1976 Women in the New Testament Constance F. Parvey in SIDIC Periodical, 1976 Women in the Talmud By Judith Hauptman in SIDIC Periodical, 1976 Male Clericalism and the Dread of Women by Rosemary Radford Ruether in Women and Orders, Paulist Press, 1974 An Annotated Bibliography of the New Testament Teaching about Women By C. E. Cerling, Jr. in Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 1973 Woman in Christian Tradition Book by George H.Tavard, University of Notre Dame Press, 1973 After the Death of God the Father By Mary Daly in Commonweal, March 1971 Jesus Was a Feminist By Leonard Swidler in Catholic World, January 1971 Woman Article in the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia Rights of Woman Article in the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia The true woman: a series of discourses By Rev. J. D. Fulton, Tremont Temple, Boston, 1869 Bible and church degrade woman By Elizabeth Cady Stanton [1815-1902] Theosis and Sacrifice: The Gendering of Salvation By Damien Casey of the Australian Catholic University Jesus and Women By Christine Schenk, project coordinator of the Women in Church Leadership project Christian + Feminist A collection of articles and links by Elizabeth T. Knuth, dedicated to the proposition that faith and feminism are not mutually exclusive Global Women's Project Information & links provided by the Center of Concern Catholic Anti-Feminism Theology Library links My work for women and girl refugees in Malawi Ryckeboer Ludwina, MMS The Liberation of Women: Religious Sources By Nelia Beth Scovill, who is currently teaching religious studies classes at Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin NOT That Old Time Religion.... By Susana Gallardo on her Chicana feminist homepage Religion, Philosophy, Theology, and the History of Religion Summaries of about 30 books by feminist authors and theologians. Lots and lots of primary material with exact reference information provided Protestant Anti-Feminism Theology Library links Gender: "Male and Female Created He Them" An article taken from And Adam Knew Eve: A Dictionary of Sex in the Bible, by Ronald L. Ecker The Status of Women in the Bible From the Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance The Doctrine of the Inner Light: Evangelicalism and Women in the Society of Friends By Martin Meeker Friends (Quakers) and Women Article by Bill Samuel, editor of the Quakerism page on Suite 101 Women in Buddhism Courtesy of the Buddha Dharma Education Association Feminist Interpretations of Certain Bible Passages God Language and Feminist Christology A website that argues for gender inclusive language. It includes these pages: Feminist Midrash -- Gnosticism, Christianity, and Sophia -- God vs. Goddess Research Papers from Mount Saint Agnes Theological Center for Women Deborah, Jael and Canaanite Mythology, Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: 10th Century Poet and Playwright, In Memory of Her: The Annointing Woman (Mark 14. 3-9), Lydia and Priscilla - Role Models for Today, Mary(am): Mary in the New Testament and the Quran, Recovering Women's Leadership in Early Christianity, The Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas, The Personification of Wisdom in Proverbs 1, 8, & 9, The Samaritan Woman at the Well (John 4.7- 42) Vessel or Disciple?, by Brenda M. Johnson, M.A., and Imagine Being Human-An Anthropology of Mutuality by Mary Aquin O'Neill, RSM, Ph.D. Religion: Quaker Women A Herstory Exhibition Celebrating Women Witnesses: WOW! By Chris Schenk, CSJ Women and House Religion By Elizabeth Willett, Hebrew Bible translation consultant, SIL International. A discussion of the importance of the Israelite house architecture in understanding women's social, economic and religious activities Making Biblical Women Visible By Carol L. Meyers, Professor of Religion, Duke University, 1984 God, Gender and Identity By Linda Woodhead, Department of Religious Studies Lancaster University What Is the Status of Women in Islam? From Islam-Guide.com Women and Religion From the Internet Sacred Text Archive. All of the major world religions deprecate women to some degree. This page archives texts which relate specifically to women and religion from a female perspective. This includes historic feminist texts on the topic, texts about Goddess-oriented sprituality and Amazons, as well as texts from otherwise male-dominated religions in the same vein |
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