Professor of Religious Studies Heidi Ravven was an invited participant at the Feminist Ethics Project Colloquium, Oct. 10 and 11 at Brandeis University. At the meeting, Ravven was appointed to full membership in the project.
The Feminist Ethics Project, which is funded by the Ford Foundation and Brandeis University, is focused on coming to understand how the legacy of slavery in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam still influences the lives of women and the institution of marriage.
The scholars and activists engaged in the project regard the legacy of slavery as the greatest obstacle to creating sexual ethics that are based on the full human dignity of all persons. The project is working to envision an ethic of sexuality rooted in freedom, mutuality, consent, responsibility, and female (as well as male) pleasure, and we are working to make that vision reality.
The Feminist Sexual Ethics Project's scholars and activists are now researching:
* enslaved women and girls in early Christianity, Judaism, and Islam;
* early Christian female slaveholders;
* slavery's impact on early Christian sexual ethics;
* Christianity's influence on American slavery;
* the religious faith of enslaved women and girls;
* the legacy of slavery in the United States; and
* how to create sexual ethics untainted by slave-holding values.
The Feminist Ethics Project, which is funded by the Ford Foundation and Brandeis University, is focused on coming to understand how the legacy of slavery in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam still influences the lives of women and the institution of marriage.
The scholars and activists engaged in the project regard the legacy of slavery as the greatest obstacle to creating sexual ethics that are based on the full human dignity of all persons. The project is working to envision an ethic of sexuality rooted in freedom, mutuality, consent, responsibility, and female (as well as male) pleasure, and we are working to make that vision reality.
The Feminist Sexual Ethics Project's scholars and activists are now researching:
* enslaved women and girls in early Christianity, Judaism, and Islam;
* early Christian female slaveholders;
* slavery's impact on early Christian sexual ethics;
* Christianity's influence on American slavery;
* the religious faith of enslaved women and girls;
* the legacy of slavery in the United States; and
* how to create sexual ethics untainted by slave-holding values.
