{"id":3993,"date":"2014-02-28T15:37:45","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T19:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=3993"},"modified":"2022-03-24T10:42:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T14:42:13","slug":"amina-wadud-scholar-on-islam-and-gender-delivers-annual-thompson-lecture-at-k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/amina-wadud-scholar-on-islam-and-gender-delivers-annual-thompson-lecture-at-k\/","title":{"rendered":"Amina Wadud, Scholar on Islam and Gender, Delivers Annual Thompson Lecture at K"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3994\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3994\" style=\"width: 188px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/02\/mina_wadud.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3994 size-full\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/02\/mina_wadud.jpg\" alt=\"Islamic and gender studies scholar and author Amina Wadud\" width=\"188\" height=\"245\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3994\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Islamic and gender studies scholar and author Amina Wadud delivers annual Thompson Lecture on March 6 at 7PM in Olmsted Room, at K.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Author and scholar Amina Wadud, Ph.D., will deliver the annual Thompson Lecture in Religion at Kalamazoo College, Thursday, March 6, 7:00 p.m. in the Olmsted Room, Mandelle Hall, 1153 Academy Street.<\/p>\n<p>The lecture is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Her lecture, \u201cWe are One and We are Diverse: Muslim Women\u2019s Responses to Gender Reform,\u201d will focus on the changing dynamics of traditional Islamic gender justice and inclusiveness.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Wadud is an internationally known scholar on Islam and gender. She is professor emerita of Islamic studies at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va., and a visiting scholar at Starr King School for Ministry in Berkley, Calif. She is also the author of several books, including <em>Inside the Gender Jihad: Women\u2019s Reform in Islam<\/em> (Oneworld Publisher, 2006), and <em>Qur\u2019an and Women<\/em> (Oxford University Press, 1999).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the turn of the new millennium, the emergence of Islamic feminism has challenged the traditional conflict between secular Muslim feminists and Islamists,\u201d said Dr. Wadud.\u00a0\u201cIslamic feminism uses anti-oppression theology to articulate the necessity for greater inclusion in the policy, spirituality and identity of the Muslim community. My lecture will focus on the interaction between major perspectives on gender justice in Islam today, highlighting the trend toward greater inclusiveness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Paul Lamont Memorial Lecture at K was established by a gift from the sons and daughters-in-law of Paul Lamont and Ruth Peel Thompson. Paul Lamont Thompson was president of Kalamazoo College from 1938 to 1949.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author and scholar Amina Wadud, Ph.D., will deliver the annual Thompson Lecture in Religion at Kalamazoo College, Thursday, March 6, 7:00 p.m. in the Olmsted Room, Mandelle Hall, 1153 Academy Street. The lecture is free and open to the public. 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K.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Author and scholar Amina Wadud, Ph.D., will deliver the annual Thompson Lecture in Religion at Kalamazoo College, Thursday, March 6, 7:00 p.m. in the Olmsted Room, Mandelle Hall, 1153 Academy Street.<\/p>\n<p>The lecture is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Her lecture, \u201cWe are One and We are Diverse: Muslim Women\u2019s Responses to Gender Reform,\u201d will focus on the changing dynamics of traditional Islamic gender justice and inclusiveness.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Wadud is an internationally known scholar on Islam and gender. She is professor emerita of Islamic studies at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va., and a visiting scholar at Starr King School for Ministry in Berkley, Calif. She is also the author of several books, including <em>Inside the Gender Jihad: Women\u2019s Reform in Islam<\/em> (Oneworld Publisher, 2006), and <em>Qur\u2019an and Women<\/em> (Oxford University Press, 1999).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the turn of the new millennium, the emergence of Islamic feminism has challenged the traditional conflict between secular Muslim feminists and Islamists,\u201d said Dr. Wadud.\u00a0\u201cIslamic feminism uses anti-oppression theology to articulate the necessity for greater inclusion in the policy, spirituality and identity of the Muslim community. My lecture will focus on the interaction between major perspectives on gender justice in Islam today, highlighting the trend toward greater inclusiveness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Paul Lamont Memorial Lecture at K was established by a gift from the sons and daughters-in-law of Paul Lamont and Ruth Peel Thompson. Paul Lamont Thompson was president of Kalamazoo College from 1938 to 1949.<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3993"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9766,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993\/revisions\/9766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3993"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=3993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}