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  • 21 Aug 2012
    Fresh perspectives offered on women reshaping religion

    An Edinburgh festival discussion has sought to look at how women’s experience can reshape what gets labelled ‘religion’ in fresh, positive ways.

  • 21 Aug 2012
    Reconsidering women in relation to religion

    Women's' experience and feminist theology has asked deep and difficult questions about the role of women within and across all of the world's religions.

  • 19 Apr 2012
    Female genius and religion

    Key aspects of Christian (and notably Christendom) tradition have been used to cement or justify women's oppression. But dismissing Christianity simply as something to be thankfully consigned to history means consigning all the achievements of women who have identified themselves as Christian alongside it, says Alison Jasper. From this perspective, all Christian women are victims if not collaborators. A rounder picture is needed.

  • 10 Apr 2012
    Gender and the vestigial state of religion

    When governments are displaced they can persist within contemporary states as ‘religions’ that maintain their patriarchal origins and character, says Professor Naomi Goldenberg. Since women’s challenges to male domination have only met with some success in recent times within fairly contemporary forms of statecraft, if earlier states known as ‘religions’ are allowed too much authority over domains such as ‘the family’ or ‘the home,’ women will be the losers, she argues.

  • 9 Mar 2011
    International Women's Day call to read the Bible 'through a gender lens'

    Global commemorations of International Women's Day have included a public call for reading the Bible "through a gender lens".

  • 14 Sep 2010
    Strengthen trust, says Finland's first woman Lutheran bishop

    Finland's first female Lutheran bishop has been consecrated at a service in Helsinki Cathedral. She said both Church and society need to strengthen trust.

  • 13 Jul 2010
    Indian women theologians lament 'unemployed' female pastors

    A gathering of women theologians in India has expressed concern over discrimination against women pastors and those with theological training.

  • 22 Mar 2010
    The manifesto of extravagant generosity

    Jesus' affirmation of one woman's extravagant generosity and his comments about abiding poverty are not about forsaking justice for individualistic charity, says Simon Barrow. Quite the reverse. They signal the in-breaking of a new order of being and living in a divided world.

  • 24 Nov 2009
    Women at the UN say theology can be good for gender equality

    In the continuing quest for gender equality in the world, a group of young women have been working at the United Nations to expand the message that theology which emphasises equality is essential to real progress.

  • 9 Mar 2007
    Happy International Women's Day

    Here on Ekklesia, we have good reason for knowing that women hold up half the sky.