In Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon, just out from University of California Press, Yale religion professor Kathryn Lofton orchestrates…
What is Oprah?: An interview with Kathryn Lofton
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“Women, Family, and Society in Islam and Catholicism”
The University of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies concluded the New York City launch of its new…
Peace from the ground up: An interview with Myla Leguro
After spending two years earning her master’s degree at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies—and…
Secularism . . . a really interesting problematic: A conversation with Joan Wallach Scott
At a March 2010 conference, “Gendering the Divide: Conflicts at the Border of Religion and the Secular” (sponsored by Arizona…
Religion and women’s rights in the British elections
Over at openDemocracy, Rahila Gupta discusses the significance of the upcoming British elections with respect to women's rights and religion.…
Why do women believe?
Lauren Sandler of DoubleX, noting statistics from the American Religious Identification Survey, asks why women are more likely to believe…
Atheists need a different voice
In USA Today, Boston University religion professor Stephen Prothero points to the emergence of a new kind of new atheism.
Religious and sexual freedoms are not opposed
On June 1st, President Barack Obama proclaimed June 2009 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month and called "upon the…