Events

Gender and Religion:  Authority, Power, and Agency

Thursday and Friday, April 3 and 4, 2008

The Radcliffe Institute's seventh annual gender conference, co-sponsored by Harvard Divinity School, examines the persistent entanglements of religion and gender, with a particular focus on women's agency. Panels will address religious law, religion and the gendered body, challenges to religious authority, and the complexities of freedom and submission in religious contexts. The conference includes presenters who grapple with gender both in their scholarship and as leaders within their religious communities. Case studies will draw on medieval Japanese Buddhism, contemporary India, nineteenth-century Sudan, Orthodox Judaism, the Caribbean diaspora, and diverse Christian and Muslim contexts.

View the full program, conference videos, and list of speakers.