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Christian Response to Gender Issues in Africa in the Era of HIV and AIDS
By: Esther Mombo | July 22, 2012
Some areas of sexual violence have been perpetuated by cultural practices like wife inheritance (a male relative inheriting his kinsman’s wife after he dies). While on the surface the church seemed to challenge cultural practices, this has not been the case with practices that have been sexual and which largely affect women. Wife inheritance and [...]
Balancing a Gendered Worldview: Politics and Religion in Focus
By: David Kodia | July 22, 2012
In Kenya, many churches bar women from church leadership and some teach very strongly against women as religious leaders, hence men dominate church leadership. This is also manifested in the political arena, where women lack representation. This parallel suggests that barring women from leadership is not a biblical premise but a cultural one. This session [...]
Joanna Cotton
By: Jason Eden | April 30, 2012
In 1664, a young Puritan minister named John Cotton Jr. was found guilty of “lascivious unclean practices with three women.”1 Mr. Cotton was a Harvard graduate, a descendant of well-respected parents, and a husband and father. As a punishment for his sinful deeds, English officials in Massachusetts forced Cotton to give up his pastorate of [...]
Gender and Inheritance
By: Beulah Wood | July 31, 2011
Hidden behind much patriarchal thinking is a pervasive patrilineal worldview. The belief that the family line is a male line and that males own and inherit the resources, has colored nearly all our cultures in the past and still accounts for much oppression and sidelining of women. Beulah will speak from her experience in south [...]
Gender and the Puritan Mission to the Native People of New England, 1620-1750
By: Jason Eden | October 30, 2010
The Puritans are not known for their egalitarianism. Indeed, the word “Puritan” instead conjures up images of witch-burning, fun-draining, Quaker-persecuting authoritarians who restricted women to a life of dreary housework and perpetual childrearing. There is some truth to this stereotype. Certainly, the typical Puritan minister viewed women as subordinate beings who needed to keep quiet [...]
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
By: Nicholas D. Kristof | June 1, 2010
Through these stories, Kristof and WuDunn help us see that the key to economic progress lies in unleashing women’s potential. They make clear how so many people have helped to do just that, and how we can each do our part.
Will Boys Be Boys and Girls Be Girls?
By: David M. Csinos | April 30, 2010
Human beings begin to develop gender identities very early in life as they pick up on cues and clues given off from the sociocultural contexts in which they find themselves. As people and institutions demonstrate socially appropriate ways of being male or female, children become apprentices and learn what it means to be a boy [...]
Sociocultural Influences on Body Image and Depression in Adolescent Girls
By: Kara L. Kerr | April 30, 2010
Many adolescent girls face psychological struggles. For example, eating disorders disproportionately affect adolescent girls compared to the rest of the population. Approximately 40 percent of anorexia nervosa cases occur in females ages fifteen to nineteen.1 The prevalence of this disorder is of special concern given that the mortality rate for anorexia nervosa is more than [...]
Gender Differences
By: Susan Harris Howell | April 30, 2010
We hear much these days about differences between males and females. Television advertisements encourage us to purchase different vitamins for our sons and daughters based on their claims that females need skin care assistance while males need help building muscle. Manufacturers of adult undergarments assure us men and women have different undergarment needs, pointing to [...]
Coming Together in the 21st Century: The Bible's Message in an Age of Diversity
By: Curtiss Paul DeYoung | November 15, 2009
On the fifteenth anniversary of its original publication, this newly revised and expanded edition offers readers an in-depth study of multiculturalism and diversity in the Christian Scriptures. A great resource for college, university, and seminary courses on reconciliation, multicultural ministry, and biblical studies.