WOMEN AND WORSHIP: Religion, Culture, Politics & Human Rights

John F. Weatherly and Oxford Consortium for Human Rights Symposium

This event is organized by the Women, Religion and Human Rights Collective (hereafter WRHRC), comprised of scholars Dr. Antoinette DeNapoli (Texas Christian University), Dr. Sujata Gadkar-Wilcox (Quinnipiac University), Dr. Lisa Battaglia (Samford University), and Dr. Cindy Dawson (University of Houston).

The goal of the WRHRC is to foster compassionate and critical dialogue around religion, rights, and women’s and marginalized identities from interdisciplinary and community perspectives. As a collective, our mission is innovative because we are concerned not only with the nature and function of representations of women and other historically marginalized identities in academic, civil, legal, religious, and political discourse, particularly their ‘who,’ ‘what,’ ‘when,’ ‘why,’ and ‘how.’ We are also concerned with the critical role of religion and human rights in the production, use, and sanctioning of such representations to achieve specific outcomes.