The virgin and the whore play very dramatic roles on the stage of the Christian church through the ages. One is venerated and the other condemned. The life-giving power of the female body is respected in awe or perceived as a threat.

This post is based on an assignment in my Life Sex and Death class taught by Dr. Doe Daughtery at Arizona State University in the fall semester of 2021. What is at stake for women’s identities in the context of sexuality and religion? I reference a disturbing news article about victim shaming in India that occurred in March of 2021.

This blogpost reviews chapters 1-3 of Dag Øistein Endsjø’s enlightening book Sex and Religion: Teachings and Taboos in the History of World Faiths. This is the first part of a series based upon assignments completed in the 2021 fall semester in my Life, Sex and Death class taught by Dr. Doe Daughtrey at Arizona State University.

As an assignment for my religion and politics class, I wrote a policy brief based on the refugee crisis that we are in. I learned that the Trump administration’s intention was to reduce the refugee ceiling to zero. Biden intends to bring back from its current 18,000 to 95,000.

This is an assignment from my RELIGION 101 class. We had to write about how a public figure is influenced by or influences through religion. I chose one of my favorite authors, Neil Gaiman.