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“Off the Press” is an FSR series that highlights the exciting news and accomplishments of our FSR Board membership that they wish to be shared with the wider community. Megan Goodwin (EFSR) published “Unpacking the Bunker: Sex, Abuse, and Apocalypticism in ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’” CrossCurrents (2019) and was interviewed for podcast on the “Challenges and Responsibilities for the […]
Call for Papers: Care Ethics, Religion and Spiritual Traditions. Deadline: April 15, 2019. Contact: [email protected]. Official Posting: Call for Papers Care Ethics, Religion and Spiritual Traditions Feminist Care Ethics has received extensive attention in a variety of fields over the past quarter century including political science, philosophy, education, social work, sociology and more. Surprisingly given that virtually all mainstream […]
By Karen Erlichman. There are so many ways to be, do and feel Jewish. I can attest to this over the course of my lifetime, as a young girl who felt called to become a rabbi before women were being ordained as rabbis, as a nascent feminist in high school and college, then coming out […]
“Off the Press” is an FSR series that highlights the exciting news and accomplishments of our FSR Board membership that they wish to be shared with the wider community. Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza’s (FSR/FFSR) commentary on Ephesians in the Wisdom Commentary Series of Liturgical Press has received the 2018 First Place in the category of Scripture: Academic Studies […]
“Off the Press” is an FSR series that highlights the exciting news and accomplishments of our FSR Board membership that they wish to be shared with the wider community. Shelley Best (BFSR author) is using her ministry to curate “Audacious Agency” at Yale Divinity School. “Audacious Agency” is a “touring exhibition features an eclectic mix of unique […]
By Karen Ross. As a Catholic adolescent girl, I received many messages both implicitly and explicitly about my body and my sexuality. I noticed from an early age that within my Catholic cultural environment, touching or even talking about your genitalia and reproductive organs as a young woman was inappropriate, and even dirty, especially outside […]
“To be alive at such an epoch is a privilege, to be a woman then is sublime.”[1] These are the words of scholar and activist, Anna Julia Cooper. Her historical assessment is piercing as she wrestles with the “unproclaimed influence of black women” in her book, A Voice from the South by A Black Woman from […]
By Lauren D. Sawyer. For the past several months, I have been informally gathering stories from my friends about their experiences with evangelical purity culture, the world of abstinence pledges, purity rings, and kissing dating goodbye. I caught up with my friend Grace, who reminded me of the Spiritual Emphasis Week we attended at our […]
The Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion is seeking article submissions that further feminist theory, consciousness, and practice. Submitted articles must demonstrate awareness of feminism as a social movement, and/or offer a critical feminist analytic framework, and/or show a clear interest in the transformation of religious studies as a discipline or in broader social change. […]
“Off the Press” is an FSR series that highlights the exciting news and accomplishments of our FSR Board membership that they wish to be shared with the wider community. Sarojini Nadar (BFSR) has been appointed to the Desmond Tutu Research Chair in Religion and Social Justice, a position which seeks “to develop and promote advanced research […]