Word: religion
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Expanding its pioneer study of women and religion, the Harvard Divinity School will create a new doctoral program called "Religion, Gender and Culture," school officials said last week...
...Gender is intimately associated with value and is a central problem in the study of religion," said Buchanan. "It affects the way people interpret and react to religion...
...Divinity School has led the nation in the graduate study of religion and gender since 1973, when it established the Women's Studies in Religion program. There, four or five senior scholars come to Harvard from around the world to teach and continue research," Buchanan said. research, said Buchanan...
...starting small, largely because only a few people are prepared for a program this specialized," said Buchanan. Applicants must have a masters degree in religion and an extensive background in gender studies or feminist theory, said Miles...
...handling of the stories amounts to a blatant rejection of the poetic notion that each time the bell of doom tolls, it tolls for all mankind. The collective news judgment seems to be that each death diminishes the reader in direct proportion to the shared bonds of nationality, ethnicity, religion, type of government and the like. Pointing out this callous calculus seems to do nothing to mitigate it. As Columbia University professor Herbert Gans noted in his 1980 study Deciding What's News, network journalists in the 1960s tried to prick their bosses' consciences by assembling "a Racial Equivalence Scale...