Catholic philosopher Carrie Gress challenges the very foundations of feminism, arguing that it has emerged as a rival church whose moral claims conceal a profound break with the Gospel — and whose ...

(JTA) — I first met Alice Shalvi, the mother of religious feminism in Israel, in the mid-1990s during a meeting of ICAR, the International Coalition of Agunah Rights, a coalition that she founded to ...

The American Academy of Religion honored past president Judith Plaskow for her lifetime of influential scholarship on Sunday, Nov. 24, during the AAR's annual meeting in San Diego. AAR president Jin Y ...

“I woke up to the fact that I was a feminist slowly and then all at once,” writes British-Egyptian author Alya Mooro in her book, The Greater Freedom: Life as a Middle Eastern Woman Outside the ...

Sexuality and religion tend to be puzzle pieces that never quite fit together. Sexuality as sin is a common theme in many religions across the globe, and has been for centuries. Abstinence is often ...

Host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush interviews activist and Grammy-winning musician Ani Zonneveld. Her new memoir is titled, "An Unlikely Social Justice Warrior: Making My Life Count as a Muslim ...

Amanda Seyfried says her bold musical biopic "The Testament of Ann Lee" was "a lot" to process - and that's why the radical ...

Indeed, racism An ideology that assumes a hierarchy of human worth based on the social construction of racial difference. Racism as an ideology claims superiority of the socially constructed category, ...

Women’s History Month may be coming to an end, but we can’t end it without turning our focus to Muslim Women’s Day (Mar. 27). You might be wondering why Muslim women need their own day when ...

The German-born scholar, who died Monday at 96, pioneered feminist ideas in Israel in the early 1970s when there were only a handful of women doing such work. I was in my mid-20s, and new to the cause ...

Indeed, racism and imperialism are such endemic features of conservative Protestantism that, all too often, historians and political analysts alike mistakenly position them in opposition to typically ...