Summary Information:
Call Number: bMS 1022Title: Unitarian Universalist Association. Women and Religion Committee. Records, 1976-1981
Repository: Harvard Divinity School Library, Harvard Divinity School,
45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-1911
Quantity: 6 boxes (2.10 linear feet)
Hollis Number:
Historical Information:
In 1977, a "Women and Religion" resolution was passed by the General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA). This resolution, endorsed by the Unitarian Universalist Women's Federation, encouraged all Unitarian Universalists to examine the religious roots of sexism in their denomination, particularly in regard to sexist language. In 1978, UUA President Paul Carnes established the UUA Women and Religion Committee, and appointed Leslie Westbrook as minister for it. The two major goals of the committee were to develop educational materials concerning women and religion, and to focus on women in leadership in the UUA. In 1980 this committee also worked with the UUA Affirmative Action Advisory Committee to survey the experiences of women ministers and theological students, and to design and recommend an affirmative action program for the UUA. The Women and Religion Committee also worked with district branches of the committee from UU congregations from across the nation, and sponsored a number of conferences and convocations which brought UU women together. The committee also made efforts to be in dialogue with women from other denominations in order to compare and contrast their experiences as women in their respective denominations. The committee developed a program for identifying sexism in congregations, originally called "Checking Our Balance," and later called "A Sexism Audit for Unitarian Universalist Congregations." The Women and Religion Committee was disbanded in 1995 due to the fact that women were no longer a minority in the UUA in either membership or the ministry. In 2003, the library also received another collection of material from the UUA Women and Religion Committee, bMS 1013 .Container List:
Box 1Administrative Files (General)
Accounting
Affirmative Action Letter, 2/11/80
"An Assessment of the New Theology Being Written by Women", by Rev. Diane E. Arakawa
Board of Trustees - Meetings
Board of Trustees - Meeting 4/25-27/80
Board of Trustees - Presentations
CEPRL
"Checking our Balance" - Sub-committee
Collegium
Common Worship, Commission on
Correspondence - Board of Trustees
Correspondence - Miscellaneous
Directory 1980-1981
Fuller, Margarite
Grailville Conferences
IARF
Junior/Senior High School
Mailing 10/10/80
Mailing 1/28/81
Mailing (to Women Ministers) 10/78
Mailing (to Ministers) April 1979
Mass. Bay Women and Religion Conference - Photographs
Box 2
Administrative Files (General)
Meeting Accommodations, 1/23/80-1/26/80
Meeting Agenda, 6/10/80-6/12/80
Meeting Minutes, 1/23/80-1/26/80
Membership - New Members, 3/80 (Potential)
Music
Pamphlet Commission
Planning Committee Formation, 1978-1980
Press Release
Publicity
Reinhardt Professorship Materials
Resolution 1977-78 (1-5)
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion,10/27- 28/78
Staff Retreat, 1979
Unitarian Universalist Womens' Federation (UUWF)
UUWF --Schumacher Slide Program
UUWF --President Report, 1980
UUWF --Sunday Letters to Professional Religious Leaders, April 1980
UUWF --Sunday Mailing 12/4/80
Box 3
Administrative Files (General)
"UU World" Articles
"UU World" Article - 11/15/79
"UU World" Article - 12/15/79
"Women and Religion" Pamphlet
"Women in the Unitarian Universalist Ministry", by Rev. Marjorie Newlin Leaming
"Women, Ritual and Religion" - 6/27/79
Women's Ecumenical Consulting Group
Worship Services, May 1980 - Responses
District Files
Ballou Channing
Central Massachusetts
Central Mid-West
Chair-people, 1978-79
Connecticut Valley
Connecticut Valley Women and Religion Conference, 5/31/80
Florida
Florida (District Women and Religion Conference)
Florida (Jacksonville Women and Religion Workshop)
Florida (Miami) - Installation Service for Linnea Pearson
Thomas Jefferson
Massachusetts Bay District
Metropolitan New York
Michigan
Michigan (Women and Religion District Event)
Michigan (Lansing Women and Religion Conference)
Mid-South
Mid-South (Women and Religion Conference, 1980)
Mountain Desert
New Hampshire/Vermont
Northeast
Ohio-Meadville
Box 4
District Files
Ohio Valley
Pacific Central
Pacific Northwest
Pacific Northwest (Women and Religion Conference)
Pacific Southwest
Pacific Southwest (Los Angeles Women and Religion Conference)
Pacific Southwest (Phoenix Women and Religion Conference)
Prairie Star
Joseph Priestly District
Southwestern
Saint Lawrence
Tennessee (Knoxville Women and Religion Conference)
Western Canada
General Assembly
1980
Affirmative Action Report
Board Meeting , 6/13/80
Board of Trustees, 1979
Budget Hearing, 1979
Carnes, Paul (Meeting)
Box 5
General Assembly
Displays
(General)
Hearing Outline, 1979
LREDA Business Meeting, 6/13/80
Mailing, 1978
Ministerial Sisterhood Unitarian Universalist MSUU
MSUU Meeting
Planning Committee
President's Report
Reports, 1977-78
Search Committee Seminar, 1980
Updates, 1979
UUMA 6/13/80
Woman's Room, 1979
Woman's Room, 1980
Woman's Room - Guest Book
Women and Religion Hearing, 1979
Women and Religion Hearing, 1980
Women and Religion Newsletter
Women and Religion Resolution, 1980
Workshop 1980 - "The Goddess"
Workshop Ideas, 1978
Workshop - Checking Our Balance
Workshop - What is the Root of Your Feminist Theory
Workshop 1980 - Women's Gifts to the Denomination
Grailville Conference, 1979
Applications
Conference Results
Correspondence (Miscellaneous) 1978-79
Correspondence (Miscellaneous) 1979-80
Box 6
Grailville Conference, 1979
Correspondence (Miscellaneous) 1977-78
Evaluation Form 1979
Evaluation Sessions
Financial Questionnaires
Goals, May Conference
Inquiries, May 1979
Myers Briggs Session
Opening Celebration
Organizing Around an Issue (Workshop)
Participants
Photographs/Slides
Program
Program 1979
Publicity
Registration Forms, 1979
Schedule, 1979
Schumacher Introduction
Songbook, 1979
Travel Plans
"UUA Principles"
UU World Article