Religious Rituals Reinforcing Hierarchy
This semester I am teaching a religious studies class and am delving into the sociology of religion in way I never have before. During our week studying rituals, I was struck by this passage...
Category: Policy
My Ninety-Five Theses for Today’s Mormon Church
Today is the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther nailing his 95 Theses to the door of the All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg (or maybe he didn’t? either way, that’s the cultural narrative). In doing...
Guest Post: Sitting in the Dark
By ElleK A woman I know was told years ago by her husband that she wasn’t to open her own doors because he wanted to open them for her as a sign of respect....
The Mormon Concept of Heavenly Mother with Rachel Hunt Steenblik and Ashley Mae Hoiland
In this episode of the Religious Feminism interview series, Rachel Hunt Steenblik, author of Mother’s Milk: Poems in Search of Heavenly Mother and the book’s illustrator, Ashley Mae Hoiland, discuss some of the beautiful and...
Eternal Family and Marriage— Not just for Mormons
“Nah, I don’t see the point,” said one of the women at the BBQ. She was responding to a question that had been raised about ‘Eternity Rings’- rings that seem to be popular...
Female Grooming Mandates That Aren’t That Hard
Pantyhose It’s a strange kind of clothing that is completely see-through, offers no protection whatsoever from the elements, and breaks when you wear it. Pantyhose break when washed, too, if you throw them in...
Jewish Orthodox Feminism with Bat Sheva Marcus and Sharon Weiss-Greenberg
In this episode of the Religious Feminism interview series, Bat Sheva Marcus, President of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance (JOFA) and Sharon Weiss-Greenberg, Executive Director of JOFA, tell us about how a generation of...
Temple Doctrine and church culture: It’s bad but it’s {not?} getting better.
My first time at the temple started out very frightening. It was a completely new experience for me and I was relying on my mother to stay with me the whole time as my...
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