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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. Sarah Emanuel (CoLaboratory) has recently published a book chapter and a magazine article: “Grace Be to You in the Presence of the Past: Ghosts, Hauntings, and Traumatic […]
By Oluwatomisin Oredein. The Motivation On June 5th, 2020 I took to Facebook to post a message inspired by the wave of white recognition of racism’s unrelenting evil, especially in light of the murder of George Floyd. En masse, I saw how white people were beginning to feel the world differently. I also recognized that […]
“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. Jordan Conley (CoLaboratory) received a prestigious grant from the North American Patristics Society to complete her doctoral dissertation, “Bodies, Blessings, and Bile: Sensory Encounters at the Shrine […]
Feminist Studies in Religion7.1.20 The leadership of Feminist Studies in Religion (FSR) reflected on and continues to lament the anti-Black racism exposed in the recent police killings of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks, and other Black people, which have gained international attention. After conversation across our various boards and leadership, we have developed the […]
By Megan Goodwin and Yohana Agra Junker. Though it began as a sole-authored curation, this piece developed in conversation with a reviewer, Dr. Yohana Agra Junker, Faculty Associate in Theology, Spirituality, and the Arts at the Pacific School of Religion, and in consultation with her colleagues Dr. Oluwatomisin Oredein and doctoral candidate Tamisha Tyler. Asterisks […]
A Letter To: The White House, Local Governments, the American Academy of Religion/ Society of Biblical Literature, and the Association of Theological Schools We are Black Presidents and Deans serving at schools of theology, departments of religion and African American Studies across the nation. Our co-signers include but are not limited to Black faculty and administrators […]
“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. Celene Ibrahim’s (Forum) new book, Women and Gender in the Qur’an (Oxford 2020), is now available for preorder. Alison L. Joseph (EFSR) is co-editor of Reading Other Peoples’ […]
By Alexiana Fry. In the midst of trauma, many people begin to seek out a “reason” behind the situation that besets them—conspiracy theories are among the many ways through which people attempt to cope with their lack of control. Yet, this process of reasoning can easily turn into blame displacement, or scapegoating, a process that […]
“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. Kate Ott (JFSR/Books) has published curriculum on the new Yale Youth Ministry Institute website. Read her three lessons co-written with Lorien Carter: “Creating a Sexual Ethic,” “Sexual […]
By Jacob Perez and Zebulon B. Hurst. The escalating spread of COVID-19, the ways it has disrupted and transformed our communication and interactions with one another, reveals eschatological dimensions within our responses—our spiritual and embodied desires. Prayers for an end to the pandemic are filled with yearning, longing for a time when it will be […]