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.” […]
By Mika Ahuvia. A few years ago, I was asked to contribute to a conference panel discussion of sexual violence in foundational religious texts, with particular emphasis on giving survivors resources. I decided to return to a text I’d studied years earlier in a progressive yeshiva, a text which had always troubled me. What stayed […]
By James N. Hoke. I ponder this scenario often: a student comes to my “Introduction to Biblical Studies” class wearing a t-shirt that says “God Hates F***”.[1] Do I make them remove or cover it, leave the classroom? Do I drop my lesson plan and engage it right there? Do I let it be—to see how others […]
I am a textual and historical scholar. I work on the Hebrew Bible. I often joke when anyone talks about things medieval and beyond, they are “current events.” My work rarely has a contemporary connection. I was invited to give a paper at the San Antonio SBL in November on the topic of “Feminist Historiography”– […]
Professors across the land are preparing to return to the classroom, beginning with the all-important discussion on first day: setting the ground rules. Sometimes I ask the class to generate guidelines, beginning with their top list of classroom dos and don’ts. And inevitably, after “listen to others,” “don’t dominate the conversation,” and “respect other views,” […]