“Priestesses unto the Most High God”: Gender, Agency, and the Politics of LDS Women’s Temple Rites

Institutional, Ideological, and Interactional Constraints: The Case of Sexual Abuse in White Evangelical Settings1

“…Research on gender and religion has been a fruitful ground for thinking about agency. Scholars studying conservative forms of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity have argued that patriarchal religions can be empowering for women and that women can find agency within them (Avishai 1998; Bilge 2010; Brasher 1998; Chong 2008, Griffith 2000; Kane 2018; Kelly 2012; Mahmood 2005; Rinaldo 2014; Zion‐Waldoks 2015). This work has encouraged a nuanced understanding of women's identification with “gender‐traditional religions” (Burke 2012), drawing attention to how social context itself shapes agency.…”