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Category Archives: Pedagogy

Reimagining Feminist Pedagogy: Embodiment, Creativity, and Transformative Learning: A Conversation with Kimberly George, Part I.

Pedagogy, Public Scholarship

What happens when we recognize that learning is not solely an intellectual exercise but also an embodied, emotional, and creative process? How might feminist pedagogy make room for different ways of sensing, writing, and making meaning? In the first of a two-part conversation, Jessica Knippel speaks with Kimberly George about sensory experience, consent-based pedagogy, academic […]

The Repeated Violations of Ahlaya and the Perpetuation of Hegemonic Revisionism

Global Voices, Pedagogy

By Lavjay Butani Some stories are never told. Others are told countless times, across generations, across languages, and across traditions, and in the retelling, they change. Sometimes imperceptibly, sometimes dramatically. Sometimes in ways that silence and sometimes, though not often enough, in ways that challenge the very systems that silence. In these retellings, heroes can […]

Thresholds of Becoming: A Reflection on Pedagogy, Poetic Theology, and What Comes Next

Faith Practices, Pedagogy

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, […]

Teaching Sexual Violence in the Bible with Graybill’s “Fuzzy, Messy, Icky”

Living It Out, Pedagogy, Social Justice

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 […]

The Beauty of Liberation: Decolonization as Talking in Poetry

Faith Practices, Living It Out, Pedagogy, Social Justice

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 […]

Mientras la Sombra y el Sueño: Art as Resistance in Theological Education

Current Events, Living It Out, Pedagogy, Politics, Social Justice, The Arts

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 […]

CFB: “Racism and the Feminist Study of Religion,” FSR Blog’s Call for Blog Roundtable Responses

@ the Table, Living It Out, Pedagogy, Politics, Social Justice

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 […]

Colaboración as an Antiracist Methodology in the Feminist Study of Religion (@theTable: “Racism and the Feminist Study of Religion”)

@ the Table, Living It Out, Pedagogy, Politics, Social Justice

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. […]

Roll/Role Call: Invocation, Remembrance, Lamentation, and #SayHerName (@theTable: “Racism and the Feminist Study of Religion”)

@ the Table, Faith Practices, Living It Out, Pedagogy, Politics, Social Justice

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. […]

@theTable: “Racism and the Feminist Study of Religion”

@ the Table, Living It Out, Pedagogy, Politics, Social Justice, Uncategorized

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 […]