Religious feminism

This entry discusses how the Abrahamic faiths of Judaism, Christianity and Islam deal with God and gender. It includes both traditional religious views, and modern views of these faiths, especially as to how modern feminism has influenced the theology of these religions. ...more on Wikipedia about "Abrahamic religions on God and gender"

Christian views of women vary considerably today and have varied even more throughout the last two millennia, evolving along with or counter to the societies in which Christians have lived. ...more on Wikipedia about "Christian views of women"

Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger (born 1956 in Linz, Austria) is a teacher and former Benedictine nun who was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church when she and six others were illegally ordained as a priests and refused to recant. She now styles herself a bishop, though the identity of the bishop who ordained her remains a secret. Her motivation is to promote the ordination of women. ...more on Wikipedia about "Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger"

The Collyridians were an obscure minor early Christian heretical group. According to our main source, the Panarion or "Medicine-chest against Heresies" of Epiphanius of Salamis (written ca. 375), certain women in Arabia worshipped Mary mother of Jesus and offered little cakes or bread-rolls (Greek κολλυρις — a word occuring in the Septuagint) to her. Little else is known. ...more on Wikipedia about "Collyridians"

The Daughters of Frya are an all-female religious society currently based near Armidale, New South Wales, Australia. Deriving their beliefs and practices from a controversial 19th century Frisian manuscript known as the Oera Linda Book, they are said to have a worldwide membership of approximately four hundred. ...more on Wikipedia about "Daughters of Frya"

Dianic Wicca, also known as Women's Spirituality, Feminist Spirituality, Feminist Witchcraft, and Feminist Wicca. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dianic Wicca"

The Rev Elizabeth Alvina Platz was the first woman in North America ordained by a Lutheran church body. She was ordained in November 1970 into the Lutheran Church in America (LCA). The ordination of women, approved earlier that year by both the LCA and The American Lutheran Church (ALC) was controversial. The ALC ordained its first woman as a pastor, the Rev Barbara Andrews, in December of the same year. The ALC and LCA ceased to exist in 1988 when they merged with the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches to form the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. ...more on Wikipedia about "Elizabeth Platz" Please inform your friends about shortopedia

Feminist spirituality is a class of religious beliefs in which certain feminist ideas play an important role. ...more on Wikipedia about "Feminist spirituality"

Feminist theology is a movement, generally in the Western religious traditions (mostly Christianity and Judaism), to reconsider the traditions, practices, scriptures, and theologies of those religions from a feminist perspective. Some of the goals of feminist theology include increasing the role of women among the clergy and religious authorities, reinterpreting male-dominated imagery and language about God, and studying images of women in the religion's sacred texts. ...more on Wikipedia about "Feminist theology"

This entry discusses how the Abrahamic faiths of Judaism, Christianity and Islam deal with God and gender. It includes both traditional religious views, and modern views of these faiths, especially as to how modern feminism has influenced the theology of these religions. For the discussion of the topic in Hinduism, see Hindu views on God and gender. ...more on Wikipedia about "God and gender"

*Goddesses refers to a local or specific deities linked clearly to a particular culture and often to particular powers (e.g. the Mesopotamian goddess Ishtar; Athena, supervisory goddess of Athens; or Hindu goddesses like Sarasvati, goddess of learning and wisdom; Durga, goddess of war; and Lakshmi goddess of wealth.) Anthropologists in their studies of goddesses have noted that adherents of goddesses often view their own goddess as a personal guardian or teacher. ...more on Wikipedia about "Goddess movement"

Goddess worship is a general description for the veneration of a female Goddess or goddesses. Many New Age Goddess devotees prefer the term goddess spirituality, avoiding the term "worship" for a faith that does not distance the Divine into a remote, hierarchical separation. Goddess veneration may be also used instead of "worship", as it can imply respect and intimacy without undue deference. In such contexts, " spirituality" is often preferred to " religion" because major organised religions have not typically nurtured goddess worship, with the notable exception of Hinduism. ...more on Wikipedia about "Goddess worship"

In some sects of Mormonism, Heavenly Mother (also called Goddess, Mother in Heaven, or God the Mother) is the wife and feminine counterpart of God the Father. ...more on Wikipedia about "Heavenly Mother"

Islamic feminism is a term coined in the 1990s for a movement that has its roots in the early 20th century, but which expanded in the 1990s in response to the growth of Islamism throughout the Islamic world. Its aims are the full equality of all Muslims, male and female, in private and public life. ...more on Wikipedia about "Islamic feminism"

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M Kathy Rudy is an associate professor of women's studies and ethics at Duke University, ( Durham, North Carolina, USA). Rudy's work is often interdisciplinary as she merges philosophy, theology, politics, feminism, and medical ethics. She is open about her homosexuality, and is a radical social constructionist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kathy Rudy"

List of women priests-In many denominations the ordination of women is a new phenomenon. This is true enough that those so ordained gain some attention. This list deals with that and will include female Bishops as well, but due to historical differences deaconesses will not be included. In Presbyterianism, Methodism, and a few other denominations the ordination of women predates 1900 and is now common enough to be unremarkable. Hence those denominations will be skipped. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of women priests"

Ludmila Javorová is best known for her claim to have been secretly ordained as a Catholic priest in Czechoslovakia during the Cold War. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ludmila Javorová"

Dr Marcella Althaus-Reid is a reader in Christian Ethics and Practical Theology at New College, the Divinity School of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. ...more on Wikipedia about "Marcella Althaus-Reid"

Rev Dr Mona West was ordained in the Southern Baptist Church in 1987 (a denomination that no longer ordains women) and transferred her credentials to the Metropolitan Community Church in 1992. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mona West"

A mother goddess is a goddess portrayed as the Earth Mother who serves as a general fertility deity, the bountiful embodiment of the earth. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mother goddess"

There are a variety of positions on the ordination of women among different religions, sects and denominations within each religion. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ordination of women"

Spiritual feminism is a branch of feminism that focuses on: ...more on Wikipedia about "Spiritual feminism"

The Stained-glass Ceiling is a sociological phenomenon in religious communities similar to the concept of the " glass ceiling". This concept revolves around the apparent difficulty for women who seek to gain a role within church leadership. The use of the term "Stained-glass Ceiling" is metaphorical, indicating a certain level of power or authority within church structures that women tend not to rise above within church hierarchies. This could range from a group's de jure barring of women from positions like priest, bishop, pastor, rabbi, or similar clerical figures, to gender discrimination at the level of local congregations that prevent women from rising to any role of particular status or power. ...more on Wikipedia about "Stained-Glass Ceiling"

The status of women in Mormonism has been a source of public debate beginning prior to the death of Joseph Smith, Jr. in 1844. Various denominations within the Latter Day Saint movement have taken different paths on the subject of women and their role in the church and in society—views ranging from the full equal status and ordination of women to the priesthood as practiced by the Community of Christ, to the Catholic-like patriarchal system practiced by the modern Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, to the ultra-patriarchal plural marriage system practiced by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and other Mormon fundamentalist groups. ...more on Wikipedia about "Women and Mormonism"

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