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Katie Cannon’s Encounter with Africa

By Peter J. Paris.

The Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Unit invitation I received to speak about our beloved Katie Cannon proposed that I address the topic, “Cross-Cultural Service as a Source for Intellectual Bridge-Building: Katie Cannon as Pan-Africanist.” The topic is most apt. In fact, the first part of the title recommended for my talk is the actual title of an essay Katie wrote for a special issue of Review of Faith and International Affairs (in which I also have an essay).[1] More about that momentarily.

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Want to read more? Click here for full (free) access to Paris’s reflection at JSTOR: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/jfemistudreli.35.1.17. 


[1] See Katie G. Cannon, “Cross-Cultural Service as a Source for Intellectual Bridge-Building,” 53–55, and Peter J. Paris, “Formation of Moral Character through Global Community Service,” 25–28, both in Review of Faith & International Affairs 10, no. 1 (Spring 2012).


Next to Judith Plaskow’s “Facing Race: A Tribute to Katie Cannon“

Back to “Remembering Katie G. Cannon“

This piece originally appeared in the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion Issue 35.1, Spring 2019.

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