SAN FRANCISCO (j. weekly/JTA) — Seated cross-legged in the sunny backyard of her north Oakland home, wearing loose, tie-dyed pants, beads around her neck, her hair in tousled braids and sipping ...

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ON A 95-degree afternoon, Kestryl Angell and Cheryl Costa re-enact a hallowed summer ritual: Spread out on a picnic blanket, they pour Kool-aid, dispense ginger snaps, brush away ants and thread a ...

HAVANA: First, they defied the male dominion over the Afro-Cuban Santeria religion by being secretly ordained. Then, they shocked the patriarchy by performing a ritual long considered the exclusive ...

ANIANSUE, Côte d´Ivoire: A dozen women, their bodies coated with clay, sway to beating drums as if in a trance, ankle bells jingling as they stamp their feet, in the eastern Ivorian town of Aniansue.

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Havana (AFP) – First, they defied the male dominion over the Afro-Cuban Santeria religion by being secretly ordained. Then, they shocked the patriarchy by performing a ritual long considered the ...

The priestesses are part of a feminist push to make Hinduism more inclusive. Some have begun officiating at Indian weddings stripped of... Hindu priestesses fight the patriarchy, one Indian wedding at ...