Academic Affiliation: Groton School Title: “Muslim Feminist Thought Leadership and Feminist Theology” Abstract: Over the past forty years, Muslim Feminist theology has emerged as a transformative field of constructive theological inquiry. As scholarly investigations into the gendered dimensions of classical Islamic ethics and jurisprudence proliferate, Muslimah theologians engage the Qur’an and authoritative early Islamic sources
Academic Affiliation: Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University Title: “Pastoral-Rabbi: How Orthodox Women Rabbis are Feminizing the Orthodox Rabbinate” Abstract: As the first Orthodox seminary to ordain women as rabbis, Yeshivat Maharat places significant emphasis on pastoral care in their educational curriculum, intertwining it with text-based studies. This differs from most other Orthodox
Academic Affiliation: Utah Tech University Title: “You might change your mind!”: Early Responses to Women’s Ordination in the 1980s RLDS Church Abstract: Scholars have documented reasons given by Christians and Jews for supporting women’s ordination, noting that very little changed in terms of formal rationales between the 19th and 21st century (Chaves, 1997; Naddell, 1999;
Academic Affiliation: The Jewish Theological Seminary Title: “Partner, Pioneer, Principal: Female Jewish Religious Leadership in North America” Abstract: How did Jewish women in North America exercise religious leadership before they could become rabbis – and then, when the doors to ordination first opened to them? In the present, how do these earlier generations of female
Academic Affiliation: Springfield College (MA) Title: “NFP is Pro-Women:” Catholic women & 21st century reproductive health Abstract: In 1968, Paul VI officially disagreed with a group of lay men and women who had advised him to reverse the Catholic ban on contraception. Most versions of Catholic women and reproduction focus on how many Catholic women
Academic Affiliation: Yale Divinity School Title: The Apostle Pauli and the Spirituality of Risk-taking Abstract: Pauli Murray was a path-breaking poet, activist, attorney, professor, and Episcopal priest whose legacy of human rights work continues to reverberate. This lecture will explore the foundations of Murray’s preaching ministry, drawing on acts of protest, poems, letters, and sermons.
City: Lowell, Massachusetts Title: “Reflections of a Vietnamese Buddhist Leader on Leadership Through the Four Positive States of Mind: An Autoethnographic Study” Abstract: This article is an autoethnographic investigation of my journey as a Buddhist youth leader. What has made me a dedicated leader over the past eighteen years? What distinguishes my leadership? To address
City: Freeport, Maine Title: “Mainline Women in Campus Ministry, 1950-1975” Abstract: In the middle of the twentieth century, women of the American Protestant mainline were serving in church roles on the margins of ministry that enabled their later entrance into the formal, ordained ministry in greater numbers. They were minister’s wives and teachers of religious
Academic Affiliation: Emerson College Documentary Screening: “The Philadelphia Eleven” a film by Margo Guernsey Description: In a 1974 act akin to civil disobedience, a group of eleven women and their supporters organize their unauthorized ordination as Episcopal priests. A church in North Philadelphia welcomes them, and a group of male bishops ordain them, making headlines