Women, Gender, and Religion

Ashley L. Bacchi is Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and Jewish History at HDS for 2024-25. This event took place on March 26, 2025. [MUSIC PLAYING] SPEAKER 1: Harvard Divinity School. SPEAKER 2: The Sibyl, Reclaiming the Power of an...

The Rev. Laura Everett, MDiv '04, an itinerant minister, believes that her calling is the work of repair. "When I'm with a congregation, we're trying to repair our broken relationships with one another," she said. "When I'm with the City of Boston...

Elena Herminia Guzman is Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and African Diaspora Studies and a 2023-24 WSRP Research Associate.

In this project, Elena Guzman explored the way Black women and non-binary people through the Caribbean and its diaspora use spiritual and ritual performance within African Diasporic Religions, including Santeria, Haitian Vodou, Puerto Rican Espiritismo...

“What’s remarkable is how much evidence has survived systematic attempts to erase women from history and with them the warrants and models for women’s leadership. The evidence presented here is but the tip of an iceberg,” said Professor Karen King.

The Constellation Project is pleased to announce the publication of our second “Prayer Book,” by HDS student Morgan Curtis. “The Decolonial Dames of America,” is a landmark essay about the importance of ancestral repair work needed to be taken by the...

Joan Taylor, coauthor of the forthcoming book, Women Remembered: Jesus’ Female Disciples, pointed to the work of HDS professor and German theologian Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, who pioneered the field of feminist biblical interpretation in the 1980s and...

Based on a lifelong study of Hinduism in her hometown, the global city of Bangalore, India, Dr. Tulasi Srinivas seeks a new way of understanding everyday modern, sacred life. Focusing upon the anthropology of wonder, beauty and grace, her work forges new...

Dr. Jordan Katz is a historian of early modern Jewry, Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and Judaism at HDS, and a Women’s Studies in Religion Program Research Associate for 2022–23.