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By Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi. During the recent Senate Judiciary Committee hearings about the sexual assault allegations against him, now- Justice Brett Kavanaugh found, among his obfuscations and fulminations about the damage done to his honor and that of the house of his fathers, several opportunities to aver his particular fondness for beer: Yes, we drank beer. […]
Position: Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies and Jewish Studies. Focus/Specialization: Social science; women and gender in Jewish culture, religion, or politics. Department(s): Program in Jewish Studies and the Department of Women and Gender Studies. Institution: University of Colorado – Boulder. Level: Tenure-track. Deadline: 15 November 2018 (review of applications begins). Website: https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail/Assistant-Professor-Women-and-Gender-Studies-and-Jewish-Studies/13155?. Official Posting (https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=57370): The Program in Jewish Studies and the Department of Women […]
Position: Research Associate and Visiting Faculty (5 positions). Focus/Specialization: Religion and Gender. Department: Women’s Studies in Religion Program. Institution: Harvard Divinity School. Level: Open rank, tenure-track. Deadline: 15 October 2018. Website: https://wsrp.hds.harvard.edu/apply. Official Posting (https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=57255): HARVARD DIVINITY SCHOOL announces five full-time positions as Research Associate and Visiting Faculty for 2019-20 in its Women’s Studies in Religion Program. Proposals for book-length research projects […]
By Amanda Baugh. “Did you know that Disney Land is in Anaheim?” my four-year old son asked eagerly from the backseat as we began our spring break road trip. Although we were heading toward Anaheim, my husband and I had not mentioned that particular attraction. Instead, we were travelling so I could conduct research on religion […]
By Justine Howe. Omer, the instructor for the adult education class on the Qur’an I was observing, stood at the front of the classroom and gestured to where I was sitting at a desk in a public high school classroom. “Most of you remember Tina,” he said. “She is a doctoral student who is writing a […]
By Katherine Dugan. I became a single mom officially one month before I began ethnographic work among a group of young adult millennial-generation Catholic missionaries who have traditional ideals of marriage and families. I received the final divorce paperwork and celebrated my daughter’s second birthday weeks before I started spending hours each week in Bible study […]
There is a lot of talk these days about women in the academy and the obstacles they face in the form of sexual harassment, overloaded service requirements, and biased teaching evaluations, just to name a few. Although universities may not be the friendliest place for women, particularly those with families, sometimes parents find work-life balance […]
By James N. Hoke. I ponder this scenario often: a student comes to my “Introduction to Biblical Studies” class wearing a t-shirt that says “God Hates F***”.[1] Do I make them remove or cover it, leave the classroom? Do I drop my lesson plan and engage it right there? Do I let it be—to see how others […]
By Karenna Gore. This collection of essays is an excellent and necessary contribution to religious thought at this extraordinary time. The impacts of man-made climate change have begun to arrive—the intensified heat waves, droughts, wildfires, and stronger storms, and related effects such as the rising of sea levels and migration and extinction of life forms. […]
By Rosemary P. Carbine. In the landmark environmental encyclical Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home (2015), Pope Francis portrays global environmental crises in similar ways to ecofeminist theologies that interconnect the exploitation, degradation, and deterioration of the environment with the subjugation of women (LS 1-2, 53). From the letter’s opening paragraphs, Francis implicitly […]