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  [### The Ordination of Nuns in Sri Lanka

 ](/religion-context/case-studies/gender/ordination-nuns-sri-lanka)In Sri Lanka, a majority Buddhist nation, debates about the ordination of women have intensified.



 

   ![Sri Lankan nun sitting in a field of flowers](/sites/g/files/omnuum8216/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/rpl/files/cs_gender_buddhism_card.jpg?itok=saCnVCyM) 

 

 

 

  [### Sexuality and the United Methodists

 ](/religion-context/case-studies/sexuality-united-methodists)In recent years, Christian churches have taken strikingly divergent views on sexuality.



 

   ![Rainbow flags around Methodist church](/sites/g/files/omnuum8216/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/rpl/files/cs_gender_christianity_card.jpg?itok=kXhKeowe) 

 

 

 

  [### The Third Gender and Hijras

 ](/religion-context/case-studies/gender/third-gender-and-hijras)In Hindu society, people of non-binary gender expression have played important roles for over 2000 years.



 

   ![A group of hijra](/sites/g/files/omnuum8216/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/rpl/files/cs_gender_hinduism_card.jpg?itok=gD7KMinM) 

 

 

 

  [### Malaysia's Sisters in Islam (SIS)

 ](/religion-context/case-studies/gender/malaysias-sisters-islam)In the mid-1980s, women in Kuala Lumpur began holding a Qur’anic study circle. They called themselves Sisters in Islam.



 

   ![Members of Sisters in Islam walking down a street](/sites/g/files/omnuum8216/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/rpl/files/cs_gender_islam_card.jpg?itok=GU_oBQHz) 

 

 

 

  [### The Women of the Wall

 ](/religion-context/case-studies/women-wall)Formed in 1988, WoW has advocated for the right of women to pray in ways forbidden by the administrators of Jerusalem's Western Wall.



 

   ![A group of woemn reading the Torah in front of the Wall](/sites/g/files/omnuum8216/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/rpl/files/cs_gender_judaism_card.jpg?itok=Ge9Fbb1p)