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Gender Issues in Spiritual Life



There can be deeply embedded cultural and social gender prejudices in any religion or spiritual practice, with biases that especially alienate, dominate, and exclude women and LGBTQIA people. Even as there are small, dynamic, and growing movements within various faiths and practices searching for ways to achieve gender equality and non-masculine perspectives, exploring spirituality in the context of such prejudice can be challenging.

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Awakening Together

Many Euro-American Buddhists seek diversity in their sanghas and make efforts to reach out to minority groups, often with negligible results.

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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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Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum Strikes Out Against Religion Based Bigotry

Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum zof Congregation Beth Simchat Torah addresses protesters in New York City on the Proposition 8 Day of Decision. She tells the crowd that those who want to codify their religious biases into civil law are bigots.

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The Women’s Haftarah Commentary: New Insights from Women Rabbis on the 54 Weekly Haftarah Portions, the 5 Megillot & Special Shabbatot

More than eighty women rabbis, including Sharon Brous, from the Reform, Conservative, and Reconstructionist movements offer fresh perspectives on the beloved texts that make up the Haftarah, the Prophets and Writings, and the Five Megillot.

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Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics

Known to more than a million readers as the coauthor of the classic vegetarian cookbook Laurel's Kitchen, Carol Lee Flinders looks to the hunger of the spirit in Enduring Grace.

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Will Religion Complete the Women’s Movement?

Author and activist Helen LaKelly Hunt says feminism must listen to the needs and opinions of women of faith.

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DY 027 – “Feminism, Sexual Misconduct, and the Guru in Buddhism” with Chandra Easton

Chandra Easton and Michael Taft talk about gender and sexual misconduct in Buddhism, why compassion must be a part of spiritual practice, and the place of the guru in modern culture.

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Coming Out Atheist: How to Do It, How to Help Each Other, and Why

Coming out as an atheist is a powerful, liberating act. It makes life better for you, for other atheists, and for the world. But telling people you're an atheist can be risky.

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A Multitasking Nun in Medieval Germany

It portrays Hildegard as a passionate humanitarian and a lover of nature who is shocked and disgusted by the mortification of the flesh through rituals like self-flagellation and extreme fasting. - Stephen Holden

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Seeing Your Blind Spots – with Kelly Boys

Kelly Boys talks with Michael Taft about integral restoration, nondual awakening, the work of Kahneman, spiritual bypassing, gendered aspects of awakening and spiritual teaching, when knowing less is better, engaged Buddhism, Christianity and the experience of being held, digging into illusory...

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