APPROACHES TO RELIGION

In about 2 pages, reflect on whether a more activist or engaged approach to understanding religion is appropriate. In the context of academia and the study of religion, do you think it makes sense to take something like revolution or social justice as a goal for academic work?

The women’s movement: An exodus community :From “The Women’s Movement: An Exodus Community,” in Women and Religion: A Feminist Sourcebook of Christian Thought, ed. Elizabeth Clark and Herbert Richardson (New York: Harper and Row, 1977), pp. 265–71. Originally published in Religious Education 67 (September–October 1972): 327–33.