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Is Sherin Khankan the Future of Islam?

By Janice Turner — 2018

She is a controversial figure – not just as a female imam, but as a woman who has called for the reformation of Islam with a feminist agenda. Janice Turner meets Sherin Khankan at Europe’s first all-female mosque.

Read on www.thetimes.co.uk

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New Research Documents the Severity of LGBTQA+ Conversion Practices—and Why Faith Matters in Recovery

New research reveals the harms of religion-based LGBTQA+ conversion practices are more severe than previously thought. All survivors needed help balancing the relationship between their LGBTQA+ identity and their faith, family and culture.

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Timothy W. Jones, Jennifer Power, Tiffany Jones
2021
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“As a Woman” Author Paula Stone Williams: I Was “Unaware of My Male Privilege” Until Transition

The speaker appeared on “Salon Talks” to discuss her evangelical past melding with her LGBTQ+-affirming present

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Mary Elizabeth Williams
2021
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Samoa's 'third gender' delicately balances sex and religion

Strongly built and wearing a floral dress and false eyelashes - and self-named after American singer Beyonce - Lee Hang can’t help but make an entrance, especially when she arrives for Sunday church in her best dress.

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Jonathan Barrett
2021
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Keeping Faith: Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, and Spirituality

Many of us are raised to follow a particular religion, and many of those religions have some negative messages about sexual and gender diversity.

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Laura Turnbull, RPsych
2017
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Spirituality and Health for Women of Color

Spirituality among African American and Hispanic women has been associated with a variety of positive health outcomes.

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Catherine F. Musgrave, DNSc, RN, Carol Easley Allen, PhD, RN, and Gregory J. Allen, ThD
2002
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An ‘emerging voice’ on gender, identity, and religion

Brianne Painia was always interested in how the strong women who helped raise her were able to reconcile a self-assured independence with a Southern Baptist faith that sometimes suppressed it.

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Susan Gonzalez
2021
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Efforts by Women of Faith to Achieve Gender Equality

Here are five ways in which women of faith are fighting for gender equality at work and in broader society—empowering young women as feminist and womanist theologians, faith community leaders, social justice advocates, and elected officials.

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Rachel Koehler, Gwen Calais-Haase
2018
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Are women turning to witchcraft in the era of #MeToo?

Women are seeking spiritual practices that respect their wisdom, creativity, and leadership.

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Jessica Mesman
2019
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Is the Future of Faith Female?

New data says that women are more religious than men but religion experts and women say their relationship to faith is more complicated than the numbers reveal.

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Mya Jaradat
2021
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Why I’m Over Women’s ‘Empowerment’

It can’t be about “empowerment” any longer. To make real progress, it has to be about power—using and growing the power we women already have.

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Sallie Krawcheck
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