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Activism/Service & gender issues in spiritual life

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Sharon Brous: Beginning IKAR in Los Angeles

Friends just wanted a way to prepare their kids for bar and bat mitzvahs. Rabbi Sharon Brous made a revolutionary counteroffer.

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“Psychological Abuse Exists Everywhere.”

Sherin Khankan, 45, is Denmark’s first female Imam and the founder of Exitcircle, an NGO for victims of psychological abuse.

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Sherin Khankan Q&A: “If I Had to Define Myself by One Title, It Would Be Activist”

The imam talks activists as politicians, her Syrian refugee father, and a non-digital world.

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WSF Valarie Kaur

Women of Spirit and member Faith Valerie Kaur shares her Sikh faith and heritage and her commitment to social justice.

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Buddhist Women and Social Justice: Ideals, Challenges, and Achievements

This book on engaged Buddhism focuses on women working for social justice in a wide range of Buddhist traditions and societies. Contributors document attempts to actualize Buddhism's liberating ideals of personal growth and social transformation.

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Missing: Humanist Women

Who’s the first person who comes to mind when you think of humanism or atheism? A follow-up question: Did you just think of a man?

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Realising Gender Equality in Islamic Marriages | Sherin Khankan | TEDxMünster

As the first female Imam in Denmark Sherin Kankan knows what it’s like to fight against and overcome prejudice. Women must be given the means to realize their fundamental right to equality.

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Women Are the Future of Islam

In this revelatory book, imam Sherin Khankan addresses urgent contemporary issues such as modern women in Islam, radical Islamic groups, Islamic divorce, and fundamentalism, and she describes her own personal journey as a female Muslim activist.

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Daisy Khan, an Eloquent Face of Islam

Since the summer, Ms. Khan, a former architectural designer, has emerged as an eloquent and indefatigable public face of the maelstrom surrounding Park51, the Islamic community center and mosque that she and her husband, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, are trying to build two blocks north of ground zero.

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Exclusive Interview with Sherin Khankan on Denmark’s First Female Run Mosque

Medyascope.tv produces this interview with Sherin Khankan.

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