1. Women in Western Religions Today By: Janel Alimboyoguen, Gwyneth Calipjo, Julia Conley, Elly Guadarrama

2. Overview Women in Judaism today (Orthodox vs. Liberal)
Women in Christianity today (Catholic vs. Protestant vs. Orthodox)
Women in Islam (Theocracy vs. Democracy)

3. Women In Orthodox Judaism
Study Torah or ordained as a Rabbi or Cantor?
Covered Hair
Kosher Kitchen
Separation
Touching Other Men

4. Liberal Judaism Study the Torah Rabbis Bat Mitzvah Separation?
High Office Positions
Rabbi Pauline Bebe

5. Women in the Hebrew Bible
God as a Mother Caring for her Child
- Isaiah 49:14-18
- Isaiah 66:10-13

6. Worksheet Question #1
According to Proverbs, how is the ideal wife expected to behave and how does it compare or contrast with the view of the ideal wife today?
Puts family first, kind, giving, worthy of praise, smart, strong, more than a pretty face, never idle, always working for the good of the household, fears God.

7. Women in the Catholic Church
Priests?
Nuns
Separation?
Have a Role in Every Aspect of Society
Most perfect human being was a woman: Mary

8. Protestant Women
(Baptist & Lutheran) ordained first woman in 1929 & 1992
Priest and Preachers
Conservative Protestants
Separation?

9. Women in Orthodox Christianity
Access to Altar
Gospel Reading
Baptismal
Religious Education
Choir
Priesthood

10. Women in the New Testament
Women and Men are Equal
- Galatians 3:23-29
- 1 Corinthians 11:3-16
Women Must Remain Quiet
- 1 Corinthians 14:26-40
- 1 Timothy 2: 1-15

11. Worksheet Question #2
Do you feel that the role of women today is in line with the selected readings in the NT?  Explain you answer.
In most aspects, women are fairly equal to men. However, in some branches the is still exclusion from the clergy.

12. Women In Islam (Theocratic Gov’ts)
Theocracy: Afghanistan (Taliban), Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia (Islamism)
Beating
Hijab
“Iran Cracks Down on Women’s Day”

13. Women in Islam (Democratic Gov’ts)
Democracy: USA, Indonesia, India, E. Europe
Separation?
Dress
Duties
Dowry
Political Power
Active Participants

14. Women in Islam Difference between Islamic Beliefs and Cultural Beliefs
- Mistreatment
Qur’an: story of Adam and Eve
Surah 65: 1-11
Women are independent individuals and accountable for their own actions on the Day of Judgement.

15. Women in Power Clergy and Religious Scholars: - Education
- Official Position in a Masjid (Mosque)
- Imam?
National leaders:
- Muhammad
- Islamic Law
- Aisha
Example of historical role models for Muslim women as leaders:
- Razia Sultana: short-lived third major independent Muslim ruler of the Sultanate of Delhi in India
- Mamluk Queen Shaiarat ad-Dur: ruled for a few years in Egypt.

16. Worksheet Question #3 What is the basis for the hijab in the Qur'an?
Surah 24:31 (modesty)

17. Leading Women in Western Religions Today

18. Judaism: Tova Hartman
Professor of Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specializing in Gender Studies
Founder of Kehillat Shira Hadasha in 2001

19. Shira Hadasha
Embraces women’s commitment to halakha (Jewish religious law, customs, and traditions), tefillah (prayer), and feminisn
Response to the role of women in the synagogue.
First Partnership Minyan
Controversy

20. Christianity: Barbara Harris
First woman ordained a bishop in the Anglican Communion
Noted for her liberal views and her outspokennes.
Ordained a deacon in 1979 and a priest in 1980.
Ordained Bishop Suffragan of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts on February 11, 1989.
Currently serves as Assisting Bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, DC and publishes The Witness magazine as president of the Episcopal Church Publishing Company.

21. Islam: Ingrid Mattson
Earned her Ph.D. in Islamic Studies from the University of Chicago in Her research is focused on Islamic law and society.
Activist
Current President of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA)
Raised as a Catholic then abandoned Religion

22. Summary
Study
- Judaism
- Christianity
- Islam
Ordination
Separation