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, […]
By Christy Cobb. In the United States, female undergraduate students are twice as likely to experience rape than to be robbed. Approximately 13% of all students—male and female; graduate and undergraduate—experience sexual assault or rape. These statistics are likely not a surprise to those of us who regularly teach undergraduate students, like myself. What might […]
By Oluwatomisin “Tomi” Oredein. “It is a form of struggle and survival, an epistemic existence-based response and practice—most especially by colonial and racialized subjects—against the colonial matrix of power in all of its dimensions, and for the possibilities of an otherwise.” – cultural theorist Catherine Walsh on decoloniality Decolonization Decolonization—the active and actual commitment to […]
By Yohana Agra Junker and RJ Lucchesi. As we enter the third academic year disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, I come to the realization that nothing about this experience has been predictable or steady. The spread of the Delta variant has forced our institutions to evaluate, yet again, how classes should or not meet this […]
We want to hear your responses to FSR Blog’s @theTable: “Racism and the Feminist Study of Religion” Our series has started with three excellent blogs. In the first blog, Dr. Jennifer Kaalund considers the value, pain, and tension in the practice of #sayhername and asks, “What is the relationship between saying her name and calling on […]
By Darryl W. Stephens and Elizabeth Soto Albrecht. Scholarship conceived as the lone academic expert seated behind an isolated oak desk continues to limit our ability to address systemic, social oppressions. We argue that antiracist scholarship cannot be achieved by reproducing the structures that brought us here. Liberatory methods are required to achieve liberatory ends. […]
By Jennifer T. Kaalund. We are born and have our being in a place of memory…We know ourselves through the art and act of remembering. Memories offer us a world where we are sustained by rituals of regard and recollection. bell hooks For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. […]
Black feminists and other scholars of gender studies have critiqued the whiteness of the Feminist movement, noting how the suffrage movement and second and third wave feminism have often betrayed or overlooked Black and brown women’s needs, rights, and organizations. Feminism has benefited from and participated in White supremacy. Religions have, as well, been complicit […]
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 […]
By Sara Ronis. Though Hollywood movies often portray teaching as the solitary work of (usually) male geniuses,[1] teaching is a collaborative project. It is collaborative within departments and schools, and across the wider world available through the internet. Emily O. Gravett and Lindsay Bernhagen have noted that collaboration is a “defining feature of feminist practice.” […]