Spirituality & Religion

This section contains material on the intersection of feminist activism and spirituality, including efforts to revolutionize common conceptions of spirituality and religion, challenge patriarchal beliefs and power structures embedded in spiritual and religious spheres, and forge alternative women-centered spiritual and religious practices.

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Key themes include:

  • Challenging male-dominated power structures and advocating against sexist practices and beliefs within formal religion and its institutions
  • Reviving spiritual and religious symbolism rooted in the feminine, including matriarchies, goddesses and Wiccan practices
  • Advancing women’s rights within the spheres of spirituality and religion, including participation, roles, and leadership

Archival Materials

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God Is Coming and Is She Pissed

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Hanukkah

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
May the Goddess Bless You!

  • Year created:

    1978

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English

Films

Film Still from Goddess Remembered of a silhouetted woman standing on a cliff holding a glass ball in one hand.
Goddess Remembered

  • Year created:

    1989

  • Filmmaker(s):

    Donna Read

  • Language:

    English

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)
Title card from the film "The Burning Times" featuring a medieval etching of a man persecuting a woman perceived to be a witch.
The Burning Times

  • Year created:

    1990

  • Filmmaker(s):

    Donna Read

  • Language:

    English

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

Periodicals

The Manitoba Women’s Newspaper

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HERizons: The Manitoba Women’s Newspaper – Vol. 2, No. 4 – May 1982

  • Year created:

    1982

  • Publisher:

    Herizons

  • Region:

    Manitoba

  • Language:

    English

Jewish Women’s Forum

Jewish Women’s Forum – 1st Issue – September/October 1994

  • Year created:

    1994

  • Publisher:

    Jewish Women's Forum

  • Author(s):

    Dorothy Lichtblau, Dr. Reena Zeidman, Agnes G. Meinhard, Shayna B. Kravetz, Renate Krakauer

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Jewish Women’s Forum – March/April 1995

  • Year created:

    1995

  • Publisher:

    Jewish Women's Forum

  • Author(s):

    Carol Rose, Dorothy Lichtblau, Rabbi Sharon L. Sobel, Lilian Nattel, Miriam Wyman, Dr. Reena Zeidman, Rabbi Sheryl Nosan, Norma Baumel Joseph, Elaine Kopman

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English

The Pedestal

Pedestal – Vol. 5, No. 4 – April 1973

  • Year created:

    1973

  • Publisher:

    The Pedestal Collective

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English

Tiger Lily: A Journal by Women of Colour

Tiger Lily Journal – Issue 17/18 – 1993

  • Year created:

    1993

  • Publisher:

    Earthtone Women's Magazine

  • Author(s):

    Leslie Hanson, Charlene D. Jones, Cecilie Kwiat, Sister Mary John Manazan, Liz Moses, Linda Stitt, Johanna H. Stuckey, Joan Vinall-Cox, Nalini Viramni, Ann Wallace, Chris Weston

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English

Women’s Concerns

women’s concerns – Spring 1989 – Sisters, Mothers, Daughters

  • Year created:

    1989

  • Publisher:

    Division of Mission in Canada of The United Church of Canada

  • Author(s):

    Francis Davis Lowe , Swarna Sugunasiri, Estelle Amaron-Ellis, Lorna Crozier, Paula Butler, Mary Dell, Marilyn Boynton, Deborah Marshall, Marjorie Powles

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
women’s concerns – Fall 1989: Speaking and Hearing

  • Year created:

    1989

  • Publisher:

    Division of Mission in Canada of The United Church of Canada

  • Author(s):

    Deborah Marshall, Nadine Nicholls, Kathy Horton, Christa Henrich, Francis Davis Lowe, Nancy Saunders, Carol Ostrom, Pat Clarke

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
women’s concerns – June 1985, Issue 29 – Stories of Third World Women

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Publisher:

    Division of Mission in Canada of The United Church of Canada

  • Author(s):

    Elizabeth Macdonald , Deborah Marshall, Ana Ortega, Janet Silman, Maureen Scott Kabwe, Judy Fetter, Alyson Huntly

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
women’s concerns newsletter – March 1982, Issue XVIII – Women in the Church

  • Year created:

    1982

  • Publisher:

    Division of Mission in Canada of The United Church of Canada

  • Author(s):

    Marion Logan, Shirley Endicott Small, Lois Wilson, Dolly Lansdowne, Nancy Jackman, Diane Marshall, Patricia Collett, Douglas Lapp, Betty Turcott

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English

Photos

Feminists of Faith join the Federation of Women Teachers' Association of Ontario, the Congress of Canadian Women, and the National Action Committee on the Status of Women at the 1983 International Women's Day March in Toronto.
International Women’s Day 1983 (Toronto) – Feminists of Faith

  • Year created:

    1983

  • Photographer:

    Judy Blankenship

  • Region:

    Ontario