Women, Gender, and Religion

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Video: Chimera Geographies: Black Spiritual Borderland Performances of the Caribbean

January 1, 2024

In this project, Elena Guzman explored the way Black women and non-binary people through the Caribbean and its diaspora use spiritual and ritual performance within African Diasporic Religions, including Santeria, Haitian Vodou, Puerto Rican Espiritismo, 21 Divisions, and Obeah, as a means to forge interstitial geographies of the African diaspora. Elena Guzman is an Afro-Boricua filmmaker, educator, and scholar raised in the Bronx with deep roots in the LES. She received her PhD in Anthropology from Cornell University and is an Assistant Professor in the African American and African Diaspora Studies Department and Anthropology at Indiana University Bloomington. Her manuscript, "Chimera Geographies: Black Feminist Borderland Performances," focuses on the way Black women and non-binary people throughout the African diaspora use ritual performance in African diaspora religion as a means to forge Black feminist borderlands through spiritual crossings. Her work has been published in Feminist Anthropology, NACLA, and Cultural Anthropology’s Screening Room.

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The Almost Forgotten History of Early Christian Women

October 18, 2023
“What’s remarkable is how much evidence has survived systematic attempts to erase women from history and with them the warrants and models for women’s leadership. The evidence presented here is but the tip of an iceberg,” said Professor Karen King.
Morgan Curtis, MTS '23, speaking at Harvard Divinity School

Video: Decolonial Dames of America: Book Launch & Reading

October 6, 2023

The Constellation Project is pleased to announce the publication of our second “Prayer Book,” by HDS student Morgan Curtis. “The Decolonial Dames of America,” is a landmark essay about the importance of ancestral repair work needed to be taken by the white descendants of oppressors to cultivate the soil of healing. This event featured a reading by Morgan Curtis in conversation with Melissa Bartholomew, associate dean for diversity, inclusion, and belonging.

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New Books Spotlight Women’s Leadership in New Testament

May 4, 2023
Joan Taylor, coauthor of the forthcoming book, Women Remembered: Jesus’ Female Disciples, pointed to the work of HDS professor and German theologian Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, who pioneered the field of feminist biblical interpretation in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Research Associate Tulasi Srinivas on Water, Gender, Caste, and Religion in Emerging Climate Justice and Sustainability Initiatives

April 7, 2023

Based on a lifelong study of Hinduism in her hometown, the global city of Bangalore, India, Dr. Tulasi Srinivas seeks a new way of understanding everyday modern, sacred life. Focusing upon the anthropology of wonder, beauty and grace, her work forges new pathways to think about religion and climate sustainability.... Read more about Research Associate Tulasi Srinivas on Water, Gender, Caste, and Religion in Emerging Climate Justice and Sustainability Initiatives

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3 Latter-Day Saints Graduate from the Air Force Chaplain Corps College in Alabama

February 3, 2023

A trio of Latter-day Saints, including 1st Lt. Jenna Carson, MDiv '18, graduated February 3 from the Air Force Chaplain Corps College at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama. Completing the required four-week Chaplain Corps College course means they are now eligible to be deployed anywhere in the world.

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