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Grading, class preparation, meetings, packing, shifting the schedule of events, last minute revisions to papers, and rushing to the airport . . . Whew, #AARSBL14 is right around the corner and we are feeling the stress with one month to go! And yet, every year it ends up being a wonderful chance to catch up […]
Healthy communities celebrate early and often. I think we in feminist studies in religion are always in order when we lift up our own colleagues, herald their work, and underscore all that they contribute to the world. Technology makes creative modes of doing so easy and accessible. These are not gratuitous, feel-good exercises, but integral […]
It’s not every year that a journal celebrates its 30th Anniversary, so we at Feminist Studies in Religion, Inc. invite you to join us in the celebrating JFSR through our various platforms and events coming up this fall season! Your Voice, Your Story: Social Media We’d love to hear from you how you plan to […]
Call for Interviews: Study on the Body Experiences of Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Feminist Women in the United States. Lead: Natalie Nelson-Blake, M.A., California School of Professional Psychology in San Francisco, CA. Purpose: Graduate Research Study. Contact: [email protected]. Date: Unspecified. For more information related to the purpose and requirements of the study, see the following blurb from […]
The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has made major news headlines over the past two months. The challenge went viral on social media this summer, but it didn’t start there. For a few years, various organizations have promoted “cold water challenges” that couple dosing friends with requesting donations. In summer of 2014, a few celebrity personalities […]
Call for Papers: ‘At the Cutting Edge’: New Postgraduate Writing on Gender, Religion and Theology in the Asia Pacific Region Journal: Seachanges Journal, Special Issue, 2015 Deadline (abstracts): 29 September 2014 Official Posting: Seachanges is the journal of the Women Scholars in Religion and Theology (WSRT) network, which was established in 1993 as a way of […]
Asian American woman have lived and suffered in a problematic cycle of racism from the wider community and patriarchy from within the Asian American community. I attended my first Feminist Studies in Religion (FSR) Leadership meeting in June 2014 and learned a lot about its history and its organization. Through this meeting, I came to […]
Job Posting: The Challenging Religious Fundamentalisms (CF) – Communications and Knowledge Building Program Coordinator Institution: AWID (Association For Women’s Rights in Development) Application Deadline: 21 September 2014 Official Posting: (http://www.awid.org/Get-Involved/Jobs-at-AWID/Challenging-Religious-Fundamentalisms-Communications-and-Knowledge-Building-Program-Coordinator) The Challenging Religious Fundamentalisms (CF) – Communications and Knowledge Building Program Coordinator is a full-time position reporting to the CF Manager, who will support the strategic objectives of CF with an […]
From Capitol Hill to the student union, sexual violence on college campuses has recently received a wave of much-needed attention. Institutions across the nation have commissioned special task forces to address rising reports of sexual assault, prompted by national efforts from state and federal lawmakers. Despite this new emphasis, an old assumption persists—student life and […]
The third event that changed my attitude [of moving from the realm of privacy to my involvement in the peace movement] was my study of the prophets of ancient Israel, a study on which I worked for several years until its publication in 1962. From them I learned the niggardliness of our moral comprehension, the […]