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Dates: during 1970-1979
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RELIGION AND SEXISM, edited by Rosemary Radford Ruether (Simon and Schuster; 356 pages; $3.95 paperback, $9.95 hardback). Those who seek the roots of sexism in Judaism and Christianity can find plenty of them in this collection of essays edited by Theologian Ruether, a Roman Catholic and an outspoken feminist. Eleven scholars-ten women and one man-investigate various, mostly pejorative images of women in Old and New Testaments, in canon law, in the thought of the Church Fathers, medieval scholastics, Protestant Reformers and even such modern theologians as Karl Barth and Paul Tillich. In this collection, at least, Tillich...
...distribute Communion and allowed worsinpers to receive the home-baked Communion bread in their hands-contrary to the U.S. inerarchy's ban against the practice. ins adult-education series became a standard stop on the religious Chautauqua circuit for speakers like Activist Priest James Groppi, Feminist Theologian Rosemary Ruether and assorted Protestant scholars. To help inm lead ins renewal, Quinlan expanded an embryo parish council into a vigorous 37-member body and hammered out programs with it in lively meetings that sometimes broke up at 1:30 a.m. Laymen, he counseled, "cannot be intimidated by crap." Despite the early...
...understanding of today's religious crisis." Swiss-born Theologian Hans Küng of West Germany's Tübingen University was described as "devotedly Roman Catholic" although he has a deserved reputation as a radical for his criticism of papal infallibility. Howard University Theologian Rosemary Radford Ruether-the only woman on the list-was cited for seeing traditional Christianity as "an ideology of oppressors" and trying to transform it into "a gospel of liberation...
...Ruether will give two courses on classical images of women in the church, in religion and culture. She will also be giving a course with Harvey Cox, Professor of Divinity, On liberation movements in the Third World and the Christian promotion of Western imperialism...
...This is about the first time that there have been women teaching at this school," Ruether said She added that she felt that the focus of women's studies in religion should be complete re education since -- according to her view -- the oppression of women is similar to other kinds of domination...