For International Women’s Month
Dr. Riffat Hassan, born in Pakistan and educated in England, taught theology in the US. Her feminist friends in Pakistan realized that they needed a theological argument to oppose anti woman legislation and asked her to help. She became, in the mid 1980s, the first trained theologian to take on, at personal risk, the misreading of the Koran with the explicit goal to help women’s liberation.
Recorded on April 1, 1993, at UC Berkeley, this is a two part program that begins with an moving account of her personal journey and ends with a painstakingly researched account of the story of Adam and Eve common to Islam, Christianity and Judaism. This myth has been used to declare women secondary, subservient to men, and sinful. As it turns out this is not the original story.
Part TWO ends with an interview with Riffat Hassan about her radical and inspiring re-interpretation of the significance of Eve’s acceptance of the apple.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 19.9MB)
Podcast (file2): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:01 — 19.9MB)
