Women, Gender, and Religion

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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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At Harvard Divinity’s Women’s Studies in Religion Program, Scholars Produce Generations of Knowledge

September 28, 2022

WSRP research associates create and contribute to stories of women and religion that have often been overlooked

On the periphery of the Harvard campus lies the Carriage House, a place that pulses with rigorous scholarship and robust personal and academic growth. It is home of the Women’s Studies in Religion Program (WSRP) at Harvard Divinity School (HDS), and it is a space where stories are exhumed and illuminated by some of the best and brightest scholars of today.... Read more about At Harvard Divinity’s Women’s Studies in Religion Program, Scholars Produce Generations of Knowledge

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Remembering Rosemary Radford Ruether's Voice

June 20, 2022
As Rosemary Radford Ruether told the Religion and the Feminist Movement Conference at Harvard Divinity School in 2002, "I started thinking I might die and I decided I had to face that."
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Why We Worship Men as Gods

April 9, 2022
"There's this narrative that the modern world killed God. Actually the modern world keeps creating new ones," says Anna Della Subin, MTS '10.
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Research Associate Rahina Muazu on the 'Female Voice in the Qur'an'

April 1, 2022

Rahina Muazu is Visiting Lecturer on Women's Studies and Islam and an HDS WSRP Research Associate for 2021–22. This semester, she is teaching the course, "Gender, Islam and Debates surrounding Female Vocal Nudity in West Africa (Nigeria and Niger)."

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