In 19th-century India, the rigid caste system and gender norms severely restricted opportunities for women and lower castes. Amid this, Savitribai and Jyotirao Phule emerged as trailblazers who ...

Court decisions interpreting the Constitution can intersect social reform movements at various points in their evolution. Sometimes courts take dominant social mores, convert them into constitutional ...

(RNS) — It has been a foreboding few weeks in Israel. Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, the largest, most powerful force in American Jewish life, was there to witness much ...

The May Fourth Movement – named for the protests of May 4, 1919, although the movement itself spanned a longer time frame – was one of the most monumental intellectual revolutions and socio-political ...

When we study social movements, we often come across the question of how movements rooted in cultural and social reform transform themselves into durable political institutions. This transition can ...

(JTA) — In a major development for British Jewry, the United Kingdom’s Liberal and Reform Jewish movements are joining to create a unified Progressive Judaism movement after working separately for ...