Women and Religion

Pope Finds Kindred Spirit In German 'Feminist' Saint

Posted 05.12.2012

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By Alessandro Speciale Religion News Service (RNS) Here are two things that don't typically go together: Pope Benedict XVI and feminist culture. ...

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Gender Disparity In The Clergy

Gilah Kletenik | Posted 05.05.2012

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Gilah Kletenik

Together with my female colleagues, on a daily basis, I am engaged in the arduous task of breaking the stained glassed ceiling.

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Losing My Religion: If I'm So Done With Faith, Why Do I Still Feel Its Loss?

Margaret Wheeler Johnson | Posted 02.28.2012

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Margaret Wheeler Johnson

I managed to live in New York for two years without it once occurring to me that I had so recently been a believer. Then I was reminded -- at exactly noon on a weekday in the spring of 2007.

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The Jewish Holidays Mean Extra Work for Women

Dr. Sharon Ufberg | Posted 11.28.2011

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Dr. Sharon Ufberg

These special family traditions and expectations are both a blessing and a burden for Jewish women, who while lovingly connected to their cultural heritage are also deeply engrossed in a full secular life of work, exercise, relationships and reality TV.

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The Oldest Injustice

Christopher Cocca | Posted 08.08.2011

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Christopher Cocca

The mistreatment of women is one of the longest-running forms of human wickedness in our history and culture, down to the present. But Christianity ought to be a wellspring of egalitarianism.

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Will the Real Islam Please Stand Up?

Leora Tanenbaum | Posted 11.17.2011

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Leora Tanenbaum

Men have long interpreted Islam from their own point of view and declared that point of view universal for all believers.

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A Rabbi Is Not a "Rabbi" in the Jewish Orthodox Twilight Zone

Leora Tanenbaum | Posted 11.17.2011

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Leora Tanenbaum

Within Orthodoxy, the "rabbi" title for a woman with the exact same credentials as a male rabbi is considered as forbidden as eating pork on Yom Kippur.

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Open Letter to the Pope: Revolutionize the Creed

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 11.17.2011

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Robert S. McElvaine

Dear Pope Benedict XVI: As an American Catholic, I want to take the opportunity of your visit to our country to call upon you to reverse some of the m...

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