Women and Gender in Religion

Kimberly Blockett

HDS Researcher Uncovers a Long-lost Rebellious Evangelicalism

April 24, 2018

Kimberly Blockett was a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin when her thesis director, Nellie McKay, encouraged her to read a spiritual narrative from 1846 written by Zilpha Elaw, a free black woman who travelled up and down the East Coast of the U.S., even into slave states like Virginia, as an itinerant preacher from the early 1820s through 1840.... Read more about HDS Researcher Uncovers a Long-lost Rebellious Evangelicalism

Leymah Gbowee. / Photo: Michael Angelo

Women as Catalysts for Peace

September 29, 2016

Leymah Gbowee won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011 for her efforts that led to ending the Liberian civil war. On Thursday, October 6, she will come to HDS to discuss her experiences and insights into peacebuilding as part of the Religions and the Practice of Peace monthly public dinner Colloquium Series.... Read more about Women as Catalysts for Peace

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