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Feminist Studies in Religion Blog (FSR Blog) is the site persona under which collective information is posted. Similar to the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, we welcome a variety of contributions that focus on women's experience or on gender as a category of analysis, and that further feminist theory, consciousness, and practice as they pertain to a weblog format. If you would like to submit material for consideration to be posted by FSR Blog, email Blog(at)fsrinc.org.  

Feminist Foremothers and Overlooked Histories: Intellectual Lineages and the Politics of Knowledge, Part Two.

Pedagogy, Public Scholarship

How do feminist thinkers unsettle the boundaries of disciplines, identities, and historical narratives? And what happens when scholars return to feminist intellectual lineages with renewed attention to the conditions in which their ideas emerged? In the second installment of this conversation, Jessica Knippel and Dr. Kimberly George discuss Gloria Anzaldúa, Pauli Murray, Leila Ahmed, Barbara […]

Reimagining Feminist Pedagogy: Embodiment, Creativity, and Transformative Learning: A Conversation with Kimberly George, Part I.

Pedagogy, Public Scholarship

What happens when we recognize that learning is not solely an intellectual exercise but also an embodied, emotional, and creative process? How might feminist pedagogy make room for different ways of sensing, writing, and making meaning? In the first of a two-part conversation, Jessica Knippel speaks with Kimberly George about sensory experience, consent-based pedagogy, academic […]

Reproductive Hospitality, Scholarly Community, and Feminist Futures: A Conversation with Grace Yia-Hei Kao. Part II.

Archives, Public Scholarship

APARRI and the Importance of Scholarly Community Interviewer (Samah): I want to shift gears a little. You and I previously met through APARRI, the Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative. You have moved through the organization and taken on leadership roles within it. I wonder if we could talk about organizations such as APARRI and […]

Reproductive Hospitality, Scholarly Community, and Feminist Futures: A Conversation with Grace Yia-Hei Kao. Part I

Archives, Current Events, Faith Practices

As part of the FSR Blog’s ongoing interview series, we are pleased to publish this conversation with Grace Y. Kao. Kao discusses her book, My Body, Their Baby: A Progressive Christian Vision for Surrogacy, reflecting on surrogacy through feminist Christian ethics, reproductive hospitality, kinship, and communal care. The conversation then turns to the importance of scholarly […]

Reproducing and Resisting Colonial Feminism in 20th Century Iran: Analyzing the Work of Latifeh Alvieh

Global Voices, Interreligious Dialogue, Social Justice

By Morgen Shirin KaufmanLatifeh Alvieh (1926–1999) was the wife of renowned Iranian scholar Ehsan Yarshater (1920–2018). This relationship warranted her inclusion in archives at the Stanford University Library, but Alvieh was a prominent Iranian feminist in her own right, who was involved in several women’s organizations in the 1950s and 60s and was integral to […]

The Repeated Violations of Ahlaya and the Perpetuation of Hegemonic Revisionism

Global Voices, Pedagogy

By Lavjay Butani Some stories are never told. Others are told countless times, across generations, across languages, and across traditions, and in the retelling, they change. Sometimes imperceptibly, sometimes dramatically. Sometimes in ways that silence and sometimes, though not often enough, in ways that challenge the very systems that silence. In these retellings, heroes can […]

The spiritual ecology of Indian Himalayan women: Ritual, resistance, and relationality

Global Voices, Interreligious Dialogue, Social Justice, Uncategorized, World Events

By Gurmeet Kaur Himalayan region is known for its untouched lands, difficult terrains and limited access. While these features have attracted many (Sages, travellers and traders) for eons, the region is now actively acknowledged as living repository of ecological knowledge, spirituality, and memory. The role of women to pass on the lived memory to next […]

Thresholds of Becoming: A Reflection on Pedagogy, Poetic Theology, and What Comes Next

Faith Practices, Pedagogy

By Jill Y. Crainshaw Yearning for light, we wander. Someone has lit a lamp. A flame dances obligato, bedazzles aching eyes, choreographs bone-tired feet. Over the past two and a half decades, theological education has undergone profound transformation. Curricula have shifted. Institutional resources have contracted. Students arrive carrying different questions, question that are often heavier, […]

“Siembra,” Mark 4:3-8, #Markseries, @thetable

@ the Table

By Arlene Markowski My mother, Ydalba, was a farmer, born in Mérida, Venezuela. This terraced plateau of the Andes Mountains birthed my mother to María, who was conceived by Flor, all peasant farmers. This matriarchal lineage of experiential knowledge taught me that the right conditions for a bountiful harvest depend not only on sun, soil, and […]