feminism

Feminists hate religion, right? Not necessarily. From Christian feminists participating in Wiccan rituals to Goddess worshipers honoring Jesus, the landscape of feminist spirituality is is not what it was in the ’60s and ’70s.

The face of modern global feminism is wearing hijab. The director of the American Society for Muslim Advancement talks to us about the new “Jihad Against Violence” and other developments in the worldwide Muslim women’s movement.

In response, most likely, to the (fictional) account of the lesser status of women in Catholicism’s most notorious semi-secret society in The Da Vinci Code, a group of women has come together to explain what feminism looks like, Opus Dei-style.

A standard misconception of the religious right is to privilege sexual “sins” over the sin of, say, a lack of economic justice for women. A story from Genesis 38 retold…

By slipping into religious language, and evoking “conscience clause” exemptions, it’s becoming clear that this underground movement is readying itself for the mainstream.

I have learned as both a pastor and a member belonging to several minority groups—African-American, women, and lesbian—that a popular opinion on an issue does not always reflect the right choice.

American women need help. They are so victimized that they suffer themselves to be treated like objects and toys, desiring no change…

The religious right tries to cut off public funds for Planned Parenthood; a look at the effort to discredit PP with allegations of racism.

Some, like Paul Wolfowitz, have criticized Obama for not responding to the Iranian election violence, symbolized by Neda, more aggressively.

When an Ivy League women’s studies department is sued for promoting the idea that women are divine princesses and men are minions of Satan, we are reminded that the act of defining religion is important work.