The Most Influential People Across History
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List of the most influential female people in Religious Studies,
#201
Sara Hurwitz
#58186
Overall Influence
1977 - Present (47 years)
Sara Hurwitz is an Orthodox Jewish spiritual leader aligned with the "Open Orthodox" faction of Modern Orthodox Judaism in the United States. She is considered by some to be the first female Orthodox rabbi. She serves as Rabba at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, and the president and co-founder of Yeshivat Maharat, both in Riverdale, New York.
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Benedicta Ward
#98929
Overall Influence
1933 - Present (91 years)
Benedicta Ward was a Church of England nun, theologian and historian. She was a member of the Anglican religious order, the Community of the Sisters of the Love of God and reader in early Christian spirituality at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford. She was particularly known for her research on the Desert Fathers, popularising the collection of their writings known as the Apophthegmata Patrum. She wrote extensively on Anselm of Canterbury and Bede.
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Yvonne Seon
#15152
Overall Influence
1937 - Present (87 years)
Yvonne Seon is an American professor, university administrator, and Unitarian Universalist minister. She specializes in African studies, African American studies, and government administration. She was an administrative officer in the government of Patrice Lumumba in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and also worked in the U.S. federal government. She then worked as a university administrator and founded a Black Studies Center at Wright State University, and helped to design one of the first doctoral programs in Black Studies in the United States. In 1981 Seon became the first African Ame...
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Pauline Allen
#45716
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (76 years)
Pauline Allen, is an Australian scholar of early Christianity. She is Research Professor of Early Christian Studies and the Director of the Centre for Early Christian Studies at the Australian Catholic University.
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Elaine Wainwright
#115663
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (76 years)
Elaine Mary Wainwright was Richard Maclaurin Goodfellow Professor in Theology at the University of Auckland. She retired at the end of 2014. She is known for her feminist scholarship in Matthew's gospel, and work on gender and healing within the Graeco-Roman world. Some of her recent publications are The Bible in/and Popular Culture: A Creative Encounter , Women Healing/Healing Women: the Genderisation of Healing in Early Christianity , and Shall We Look for Another: A Feminist Re-reading of the Matthean Jesus . Wainwright initially studied at the University of Queensland and then obtained a m...
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Helen Dawes
#111484
Overall Influence
1974 - Present (50 years)
Helen Elizabeth Dawes is a British academic administrator. Since 2021, she has been Principal of Westcott House, Cambridge. Before returning to Westcott House where she had trained for ordination, she served in parish ministry in the Dioceses of Ely, St Albans and Salisbury, and on the staff of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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Aminah McCloud
#107535
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (76 years)
Aminah Beverly McCloud is Professor of Religious Studies and Director of Islamic World Studies program at DePaul University. Her areas of expertise include Islam in America, Muslim women, Islamic studies and the history, geography, politics, religion and philosophy of Islam. She is the author and co-author of several books. Professor McCloud is also the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Islamic Law and Culture, and a member of the board of advisors of the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding .
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Bernadette Brooten
#38637
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (73 years)
Bernadette J. Brooten is an American religious scholar and Kraft-Hiatt Professor of Christian Studies at Brandeis University. Biography Brooten graduated from University of Portland with a B.A., and Harvard University with a Ph.D. in 1982. She studied theology at the University of Tübingen and at Hebrew University. She taught at the Claremont Graduate School, the University of Tübingen, Harvard Divinity School, and the University of Oslo with a 1998 Fulbright Fellowship. She served on the Advisory Committee for the Women's Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School from 1997 to 200...
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Anne Blackburn
#114295
Overall Influence
Anne M. Blackburn is a historian of South and Southeast Asian Buddhism. She is Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University. Blackburn received her B.A. in Asian History and Religion in 1988 from Swarthmore College, her M.A. in Religious Studies in 1990 from University of Chicago Divinity School, and her Ph.D. in History of Religions in 1996 from the same institution. Blackburn's teachers include Steven Collins, Charles Hallisey, Frank E. Reynolds, and Donald Swearer.
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Muriel Spurgeon Carder
#112693
Overall Influence
1922 - Present (102 years)
Muriel Spurgeon Carder was a Canadian Baptist who was the first woman ordained as a Baptist minister in Ontario and Quebec; she was also a missionary in India. Life Childhood and studies Muriel Spurgeon was born in Woodford Green, England to Elizabeth Frances and Carey Bradford Spurgeon . Carder is related to Charles Spurgeon, a Reformed Baptist minister, and had a brother named David. Her mother, Elizabeth Frances , died in 1953. Her father was born in India to the Reverend Robert Spurgeon. He was a fellow of the Institute of Actuaries and an associate of the Society of Actuaries; he was a...
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Angela Kim Harkins
#86817
Overall Influence
1973 - Present (51 years)
Angela Kim Harkins is a Professor of New Testament and Professor Ordinaria at Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. Early life and education Harkins was born in Seoul, South Korea and grew up in the northwest side of Chicago, Illinois. She completed her undergraduate at Loyola University, Chicago and went on to complete a M.A. degree in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, concentrating on biblical languages. She studied at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel, 1997-98, with funding from a Fulbright fellowship, a year that coincided with the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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Phyllis Bird
#87115
Overall Influence
1934 - Present (90 years)
Phyllis Ann Bird is an American feminist scholar in biblical hermeneutics. She is Professor Emerita of Old Testament Interpretation at Garrett–Evangelical Theological Seminary and McCarthy Professor of Biblical Studies at the Pontifical Biblical Institute. Bird is an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church, and was one of the translators of the New Revised Standard Version.
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Ruth C. Duck
#124612
Overall Influence
1947 - Present (77 years)
Ruth Carolyn Duck is an ordained pastor in the United Church of Christ, a liturgical theologian and retired professor of worship who taught for 27 years at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois. Duck is best known for her work as a composer, writer and adaptor of hymns. In 1973, she was part of the committee at the Ecumenical Women's Center of Chicago that produced Because We Are One People, the first 20th century collection of original and adapted hymns that promoted the use of “non-sexist language”. Since that time, Duck has written over 150 hymns, edited three boo...
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Anneli Aejmelaeus
#122485
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (76 years)
Anneli Pirjo Marjukka Aejmelaeus is professor emerita of Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Culture and Literature in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Helsinki, and is the vice-director of the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence "Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions". Before this, she held from 1991 to 2009 the position of Professor of Old Testament and Septuagint Research in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Göttingen. In addition, from 1993 to 2000, Aejmelaeus was the Director of the research institute "Septuaginta-Unternehmen" at the Göttingen Academy of S...
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Vasudha Narayanan
#106854
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (71 years)
Vasudha Narayanan is an American scholar of Hinduism at University of Florida and former President of the American Academy of Religion. Biography Vasudha Narayan has degrees from the University of Madras, University of Bombay, and Harvard University. From 1996 to 1998 she was the president of the society for Hindu-Christen studies. Vasudha Narayan was named Florida's Teacher of the Year in 2010. With the University of Florida, Vasudha Narayan made the nation's first Center for the Study of Hindu Traditions named CHiTra for research and study.
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Sarah Stroumsa
#66376
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (74 years)
Sarah Stroumsa is the Alice and Jack Ormut Professor of Arabic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has contributed several investigations into Jewish and Arabic scholastic philosophy. In 2021 she was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
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Anne-Marie Pelletier
#79171
Overall Influence
1946 - Present (78 years)
Anne-Marie Pelletier is a noted Catholic biblical scholar whose works include study of the Song of Songs. Life Pelletier was born in Paris on 13 June 1946. She lives in France. She was one of the two to receive the 2014 Ratzinger Prize and became the first woman to win the prize.
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Kecia Ali
#65219
Overall Influence
1972 - Present (52 years)
Kecia Ali is an American scholar of Islam who focuses on the study of Islamic jurisprudence, ethics, women and gender, and biography. She is currently a professor of religion at Boston University. She previously worked with Brandeis University's Feminist Sexual Ethics Project, presided over the Society for the Study of Muslim Ethics and was a research associate and postdoctoral fellow at Brandeis University and Harvard Divinity School.
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Irene Dingel
#97048
Overall Influence
1956 - Present (68 years)
Irene Dingel is a German historian and a Protestant theologian. Irene Dingel studied Protestant theology and Romance studies in Heidelberg and Paris. From 1981 until 1982 she was an "Élève à titre étranger" at the École Normale Supérieure de Fontenay-aux-Roses, and she also worked as an editor at the same time. Between 1982 and 1993 she was a scientific assistant at the theological faculty of Heidelberg University, where she also received several research grants. In 1986 she finished her doctorate in Heidelberg, which was followed by her habilitation in 1993. After that Dingel was a substitu...
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Heike Friis
#112993
Overall Influence
1943 - 2015 (72 years)
Heike Friis was a Danish theologian and parish priest. She grew up in Sæd in South Denmark near the German border. She graduated from the University of Copenhagen in 1968 with a candidate thesis that won the university's gold medal titled "The Background in and outside of Israel for the Emergence of David's Empire". The thesis represented a break with the conservative tradition of Biblical exegesis, arguing that the Biblical historical narratives presuppose the Babylonian exile. This idea was important in introducing the narrative approach to exegesis that became the hallmark of the Copenhagen school in theology.
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Irina Papkova
#42632
Overall Influence
1977 - Present (47 years)
Irina Andreyevna Papkova , is a scholar of religion and international relations, currently a Research Fellow of Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. She is based in Washington, DC and New York.
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Charlotte Fonrobert
#98683
Overall Influence
1965 - Present (59 years)
Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert is a professor in the Religious Studies department of Stanford University. She specializes in Judaism, especially talmudic literature and culture. Her research interests include gender in Jewish culture, the relationship between Judaism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, the discourses of orthodoxy versus heresy, and rabbinic conceptions of Judaism with respect to Greco-Roman culture. She completed her graduate training at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA. In 2007 she wrote the article Gender Identity In Halakhic Discourse for Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia; this is likely the first scholarly article on the topic.
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Johnnie Colemon
#48369
Overall Influence
1920 - 2014 (94 years)
Johnnie Colemon was an influential minister and teacher in the New Thought movement. She is often referred to as the “First Lady of New Thought”. Colemon founded several large organizations within the African-American New Thought movement, including Christ Universal Temple and the Universal Foundation for Better Living . The Johnnie Colemon Theological Seminary is named in her honor.
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Gunnel André
#97299
Overall Influence
1946 - Present (78 years)
Gunnel Margareta André is a Swedish theologian, an ordained Lutheran minister in the Church of Sweden and an author. Biography After studying theology, psychology and music at North Park University, Chicago, she continued her studies in 1968 at the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Uppsala, Sweden and the Swedish Theological Institute in Jerusalem, Israel. In 1980 she received a PhD degree in Old Testament Exegesis, and became an Assistant Professor.
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Tracey Rowland
#104529
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (61 years)
Tracey Rowland is an Australian Roman Catholic theologian and professor at the University of Notre Dame Australia. She was appointed to Pope Francis' International Theological Commission in 2014 and in 2020 became the first Australian, and third woman, to be awarded the Ratzinger Prize for theology.
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Zayn Kassam
#110833
Overall Influence
Dr. Zayn R. Kassam is an American religious studies scholar known for her work on gender roles in Islam and Indian philosophy with 29 publications on her work as of July 2022. Her most known publication being her book Women and Islam. She was the chair of the religious studies department at Pomona College, and in January 2023, she began her term as director of the Institute of Ismaili Studies.
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Julia Ching
#58741
Overall Influence
1934 - 2001 (67 years)
Julia Ching, CM RSC was professor of religion, philosophy and East Asian studies at the University of Toronto. Biography Born in Shanghai in 1934, Ching fled the Republic of China as a refugee during World War II. After completing high school at Sacred Heart Canossian College in Hong Kong, Ching studied at the College of New Rochelle in New York and then served as an Ursuline nun for two decades, completing a master's degree at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, before obtaining a doctorate in Asian studies at the Australian National University in Canberra. She taught at Columbia and Yale before joining the University of Toronto faculty in 1978.
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Barbara Lewis King
#79411
Overall Influence
1930 - 2020 (90 years)
Barbara Lewis King was the first bishop of the International New Thought Christian Movement of Churches. She was also the founder of Hillside International Chapel and Truth Center. Biography Barbara Lewis King was born in Houston, Texas, to parents Mildred Jackson Shackelford, and Lec Andrew Lewis. She was raised by her paternal grandmother, Ida Bates Lewis. At the age of 13, she volunteered as a Sunday school teacher. At 15, King became a Woman's Day speaker in history at Houston's Antioch Baptist Church.
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Joanna Brooks
#31829
Overall Influence
1971 - Present (53 years)
Joanna Brooks is an American author and professor of English and comparative literature at San Diego State University. Brooks is currently the associate vice president of faculty advancement and professor of English and comparative literature. She is a frequent media commentator on faith in American life, particularly in relation to her own Mormonism. Politico named her one of 2011's "50 politicos to watch" for her Twitter feed, @askmormongirl.
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Eleanor Humes Haney
#85101
Overall Influence
1931 - 1999 (68 years)
Eleanor "Elly" Humes Haney was an American feminist theologian and community activist. Personal Haney was born in Milford, Delaware, on December 30, 1931. She died on July 10, 1999, in Phippsburg, Maine.
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Clemens Mendonca
#128417
Overall Influence
1949 - Present (75 years)
Clemens Mendonca is an Indian theologian and Executive Director of the Institute for the Study of Religion. She worked as Managing Director at the Institute for the Study of Religion. She later continued her career as a lecturer at the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences and has been an advisor for its theology department since 2004. She is currently the Director for the Institute for the Study of Religion and secretariat of the FABC-OEIA.
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Rosemary Jeffries
#79722
Overall Influence
Rosemary E. Jeffries is former President of Georgian Court University and Vice Chair of the New Jersey Presidents' Council Executive Board . A native of Ocean City, New Jersey, Jeffries holds a PhD in sociology from Fordham University, an M.A. in religious studies from Princeton Theological Seminary, an M.A. in public communications from Fordham, and a B.A. in art education from Georgian Court College.
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Ruth Page
#128299
Overall Influence
1935 - 2015 (80 years)
Ruth Page was the first female principal of New College, Edinburgh . She had been teaching in New College since 1979, until her retirement in 2000. Her prominent work includes God and the Web of Creation and Ambiguity and the Presence of God .
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Pamela Klassen
#73432
Overall Influence
1967 - Present (57 years)
Pamela E. Klassen is a Professor in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto, co-appointed to the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall Law School at York University. In 2019, Klassen was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
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Dorothy Lee
#112383
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (71 years)
Dorothy Ann Lee is an Australian theologian and Anglican priest, formerly dean of the Trinity College Theological School, Melbourne, a college of the University of Divinity, and continuing as Frank Woods Distinguished Professor of New Testament. Her main research interests include the narrative and theology of the Gospels, particularly the Gospel of John, spirituality in the New Testament, the Transfiguration and Anglican worship.
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Serene Jones
#116059
Overall Influence
1959 - Present (65 years)
Lynda Serene Jones is the President and Johnston Family Professor for Religion and Democracy at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. She was formerly the Titus Street Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School and chair of gender, woman, and sexuality studies at Yale University.
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Lisa Sowle Cahill
#104781
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (76 years)
Lisa Sowle Cahill is an American ethicist, and J. Donald Monan Professor at Boston College. She first became known in the 1980s with her studies on gender and sexual ethics, but now she has extended her work to social and global ethics. Lisa Sowle Cahill's work focuses on an attempt to discuss the complexity of moral issues while lowering tensions about theological disagreements between the Church and society.
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Elizabeth Templeton
#128095
Overall Influence
1945 - 2015 (70 years)
Elizabeth Anne Templeton was a Scottish freelance theologian and educationalist. Early life and education Templeton was born 8 June 1945 in Drumoyne in Glasgow. Her father was a clerk, who became a teacher and was a conscientious objector and mother a primary school teacher in Govan.
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Anna L. Peterson
#92364
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (61 years)
Anna L. Peterson is an American scholar of religious studies who is currently a professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Florida, where she has worked since 1993. Her research variously concerns religion in Latin America and ethics—including religious ethics, Christian ethics, environmental ethics, animal ethics and social ethics. She is the author of five monographs: Martyrdom and the Politics of Religion ; Being Human ; Seeds of the Kingdom ; Everyday Ethics and Social Change ; and Being Animal .
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Anne E. Patrick
#89787
Overall Influence
1941 - 2016 (75 years)
Anne Estelle Patrick, SNJM , was an American Catholic religious sister, theologian, and professor. She was an active member of the Catholic Theological Society of America, the International Network of Societies for Catholic Theology, the Society of Christian Ethics, and the National Assembly of Women Religious.
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Mary L. Coloe
#95958
Overall Influence
1949 - Present (75 years)
Sister Mary Coloe is an Australian religious sister and New Testament biblical scholar who specializes in the Gospel of John. She is a member of the Sisters of the Presentation of the Virgin Mary, a Roman Catholic religious order dedicated to teaching and service to the poor. She is a professor at Yarra Theological Union, in Box Hill, Victoria, Australia.
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Uta Ranke-Heinemann
#105086
Overall Influence
1927 - 2021 (94 years)
Uta Ranke-Heinemann was a German theologian, academic, and author. In 1969, she was the first woman in the world to be habilitated in Catholic theology. She held a chair of ancient Church history and the New Testament at the University of Duisburg-Essen. When her license to teach was revoked by the bishop because of her critical position in matters of faith, the university created a nondenominational chair of History of Religion. Her 1988 book Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven, criticising the Catholic Church's stance on women and sexuality, was published in several editions, and translated in 12 languages.
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Judith Lieu
#87244
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (73 years)
Judith Margaret Lieu is a British theologian and historian of religion. She specialises in the New Testament and early Christianity. Her research includes a focus on early Christian identity in its historical context, and literary analysis of biblical texts. From 2010 to 2018, she was Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. She retired from her post in 2018.
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Margaret Thrall
#87100
Overall Influence
1928 - 2010 (82 years)
Margaret Eleanor Thrall was a Welsh theologian, academic, and Anglican priest. Thrall studied at Girton College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1950 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1960. Her doctoral supervisor was C. F. D. Moule. She taught the New Testament and Koine Greek at the University of Wales, Bangor, where she rose to be Reader in Biblical Studies. She was also an associate editor of the New Testament Studies journal. She was one of the first women to be ordained in the Church in Wales when she was made a deacon in 1982 and a priest in 1997. She served as Canon Theologian at Bangor Cathedral from 1994 to 1997.
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Park Soon-kyung
#140072
Overall Influence
1923 - 2020 (97 years)
Park Soon-kyung was a South Korean Methodist theologian. Biography Born in Yeoju of Gyeonggi Province, Park first studied nursing before pursuing degrees in theology at Methodist Theological University in Seoul and philosophy at Seoul National University. She went for further studies in the United States, pursuing an M.Div. at Emory University and a Ph.D. at Drew University, completing a dissertation in 1966 on "Man in Karl Barth's doctrine of election."
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Mary F. Foskett
#145651
Overall Influence
1961 - Present (63 years)
Mary F. Foskett is a Chinese-American New Testament scholar. Biography An ethnic Chinese born in Japan, Foskett was adopted into a white American family. Foskett received her BA from New York University, M.Div. from Union Theological Seminary, New York, and Ph.D. in New Testament and Christian Origins from Emory University. She is presently the Wake Forest Kahle Professor of Religious Studies and Albritton Fellow at Wake Forest University, and has written primarily in contemporary New Testament studies, with a focus on gender and Asian American culture.
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Addie Elizabeth Davis
#66621
Overall Influence
1917 - 2005 (88 years)
Addie Elizabeth Davis was an American Southern Baptist religious leader. In 1964, she became the first woman to be ordained as a Southern Baptist pastor. Early life and education Davis was born to a Baptist family in Covington, Virginia on 29 June 1917. In 1942, Davis graduated from Meredith College with a major in psychology and a minor in speech. She became an education director at First Baptist Church in Elkin, North Carolina and later dean of women at Alderson-Broaddus College.
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Gina Messina Dysert
#126244
Overall Influence
1975 - Present (49 years)
Gina Messina , previously known as Gina Messina-Dysert, is an American religious studies and women's studies scholar and activist. She gives particular attention to gender issues in religion. Messina is co-founder of Feminism and Religion, which she founded in 2011 with Caroline Kline, Xochitl Alvizo, and Cynthia Garrity Bond. Feminism and Religion is a project that explores the intersection between scholarship and the feminism in religion, community, and activism.
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Christa Mulack
#102798
Overall Influence
1943 - 2021 (78 years)
Christa Mulack was a German feminist theologian, educator and author. Life Christa Mulack was born and grew up in Hamburg. She studied Theology, Psychology, Sociology and Teaching sciences. While working as a teacher at a Gymnasium she received her doctorate in 1982 from the University of Dortmund . Her dissertation, entitled "Die Weiblichkeit Gottes" , was published as a book in 1983, and established Mulack's reputation as a feminist theologian. The topic is one on which she worked as a freelance author and teacher at several universities and theological academies after 1984.
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Patricia Cox Miller
#108007
Overall Influence
1947 - Present (77 years)
Patricia Cox Miller is the W. Earl Ledden Professor Emerita of Religion at Syracuse University. She researches religious imagination in late antiquity, religion and aesthetics in late antiquity, early Christian asceticism, women and religion in late antiquity, early Christian and pagan hagiography and ancient art.
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