Women, Religion, and Film: Higher Ground Raises the Stakes
…tongues, when she talks to God. Her expressions of faith, however, are not welcome in public spaces. She is only allowed to believe in private, in small, circumscribed spaces, locked in her bathroom, alone in her car, washing dishes in the kitchen, folding laundry in the bedroom. When faith is cast as submitting to God and to the men who claim to speak for God, then any kind of independence, any kind of questioning, any kind of female authority, m…
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