Women and Religion | Harvard Divinity Bulletin

Sewing Together at a Hindu Temple in Sindh, Pakistan

The location of a sewing class for young Hindu and Muslim women in the Jhoolelal Mandir shapes their sometimes fraught social interactions. By Ghazal Asif Farrukhi

Nurturing Black Maternal Health

There’s plenty of data on Black maternal mental health and obstetric racism but we are not providing the culturally responsive care that is needed. By Sevonna Brown

On Waiting, Tending Life, and Comedy at God’s Scale

A conversation with Courtney Sender, MTS ’18, on her first novel, a braided story collection titled In Other Lifetimes: All I’ve Lost Comes Back to Me. By Kevin Madigan

Mother’s Tales, God’s Stories

The silent and implicit aspects of Qur’anic narratives elicit emotional responses from the reader that facilitate the reconstruction of the story world. By Zahra Moballegh

Rematriation and MMIWG2S Soldiers

Sharing testimonios about Lori Piestewa, Vanessa Guillén, and other MMIWG2S peoples is a form of rematriation. By Delores (Lola) Mondragón

Cannon, Williams, and Womanist Survival

Womanism founders Katie Cannon and Delores Williams created groundbreaking work that has led to a wide range of scholarship focused on the thriving of Black women. By Gary Dorrien

Simple Living & High Thinking

A professor of religion and ethics discovers the spirituality of spinning cotton khadi while living among the sisters of the Brahma Vidya Mandir ashram. By Swasti Bhattacharyya

Black Women, Black Church, and Self-Narratives

A selected reading list of classic and contemporary memoir and autobiography from Nyasha Junior’s course.

‘Literature is Common Ground’: On Reading Virginia Woolf

A Q&A with Stephanie Paulsell on her latest book, Religion Around Virginia Woolf. By Sarah Fleming

A Story of Sarahs: Atwood’s Critique of Second-Wave Feminism

Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments resonates with the energy of dread saturating life under COVID-19 in the Trump administration. By Mara Willard

With Her Head Held High

Even after her imprisonment and torture, a Sikh woman relentlessly pursues justice for her father’s murder during the state-sanctioned 1984 violence. By Kalpana Jain

Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

A selected reading list from Amy Hollywood’s course.

Paths to Abstraction: Spirituality in the Work of Three Women Artists

Exploring the link between spiritual liberation and abstract artistic expression in paintings of Hilma af Klint, Hilla Rebay, and Vicci Sperry. By Ann Braude

Fully Fleshed Out: Religion, Womanhood, and Blackness in Contemporary Media

Positive, complex representations of black women’s religious experience in Queen Sugar and Being Serena. By LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant

Reclaiming Egalitarian Jewish Wedding Customs

Reclaiming medieval Jewish wedding processional customs to open up a liminal space for a woman to be seen in between her attachments to men. By Jessica Rosenberg

Writing from a Paradoxical Place

A writer considers her tradition’s inheritance of childless women and finds strength in her heroines of Jewish literature. By Courtney Sender

Religion and the BRCA Mutation

Women diagnosed with the “breast cancer genes” share complex stories about the impact of this health crisis on their religious beliefs and practices. By Alexandra Nichipor

Can the Women Do Something?

An inspiring call to action from the Nobel laureate who brought women together across religious, ethnic, and political differences to restore peace in Liberia. By Leymah Gbowee