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187 results for "Women and Gender in Religion"

187 results for "Women and Gender in Religion"

Strong Foundations, Forward Thinking

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The Women’s Studies in Religion Program continues to bring forth new research in the study of religion and gender while building a scholarly community that crosses generations, contexts, and continents. 

Religion and the Gender Revolution

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The Past, Present, and Future of the Women's Studies in Religion Program The history of women at Harvard Divinity School is relatively brief, but the Women's Studies in Religion Program (WSRP)—founded in 1973—has ensured that the roles of women and gender...

Leila Ahmed

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  • BA, MA, PhD, University of Cambridge

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Leila Ahmed came to the Divinity School in 1999 as the first professor of women's studies in religion and was appointed to the Victor S. Thomas chair in 2003. She became the Victor S. Thomas Research...

Ann D. Braude

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  • AB, Vassar College
  • MA, University of Chicago
  • PhD, Yale University

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Ann Braude serves as the director of the Women's Studies in Religion Program and as Senior Lecturer on American Religious History at Harvard Divinity School. She joined the...

MK Long

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  • BA, Smith College
  • MA, Boston University
  • MTS, Harvard Divinity School
  • PhD, Cornell University

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MK Long is a historian and ethnographer of Buddhism and gender who currently serves as Lecturer on Religion at Dartmouth College. Her current research...

Zahra Moballegh

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  • BA, MA, PhD, University of Tehran

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Zahra Moballegh specializes in philosophy and Islamic thought and has published several articles on feminist philosophy and Islamic feminism in Zanan e Emrooz (Women of Today), the leading magazine for...

HDS Visiting Scholar Examines Gender and Ritual in Urban China

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On a recent autumn afternoon in a packed Braun Room on the HDS campus, Anna Sun, a 2018–19 research associate in the Women’s Studies in Religion Program at HDS, spoke about her research project this year, titled, “Women in Prayer: Gendered Religious Life...