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Welcome to Seminar in Women and Religious Authority

Advanced research on women's leadership, ordination, and authority across traditions, past and present, with case studies of women-led communities such as the medieval Beguines, condemned by the Council of Vienne in 1311, and Umoja, the village in Kenya founded in 1990 by Rebecca Lolosoli as a refuge where men may visit but may not live.

Students will be able to

• Analyze the history of women's religious leadership across traditions.
• Evaluate arguments for and against women's ordination as their holders make them.
• Write a research paper on women's authority in one tradition.

This course is being written and will open soon.