There is a lot of talk these days about women in the academy and the obstacles they face in the form of sexual harassment, overloaded service requirements, and biased teaching evaluations, just to name a few. Although universities may not be the friendliest place for women, particularly those with families, sometimes parents find work-life balance […]
By Karenna Gore. This collection of essays is an excellent and necessary contribution to religious thought at this extraordinary time. The impacts of man-made climate change have begun to arrive—the intensified heat waves, droughts, wildfires, and stronger storms, and related effects such as the rising of sea levels and migration and extinction of life forms. […]
By Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza. First of all, I want to thank the editors for their careful work in planning and shepherding this volume to publication and the contributors for their stimulating and energizing work. Planetary Solidarity is a milestone in Christian Systematic The*logy. The editors, Professors Kim and Koster, clearly state the focus of the book: […]
By Rosemary P. Carbine. In the landmark environmental encyclical Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home (2015), Pope Francis portrays global environmental crises in similar ways to ecofeminist theologies that interconnect the exploitation, degradation, and deterioration of the environment with the subjugation of women (LS 1-2, 53). From the letter’s opening paragraphs, Francis implicitly […]
By Hilda P. Koster. The oil development in North Dakota has brought thousands of unattached male workers to previously sparsely populated rural areas. These workers are often housed in so called “man-camps” which have become launching pads for sexual predators and a lucrative market for sex-traffickers. My contribution to Planetary Solidarity offers that the extraction […]
By Melanie L Harris. Ecowomanism is a growing area within the discipline of environmental ethics that promotes earth-justice and combines theo-ethical and environmental ethical analysis with traditional womanist intersectional race, class, gender analysis.[1] In addition to examining how racism, classism, and sexism shape the moral realities and theo-ethical perspectives of women of color, and especially […]
By Jea Sophia Oh. In order to live, one must die. The principle of life is that it comes from death. Jesus compared his death of the cross to a seed that falls to the ground and dies. A seed has a potential to bear a lot of fruit because there is life in a […]
By Heather Eaton. Planetary solidarity in the context of climate change is a desirable, albeit daunting image. It is desirable because climate change is a planetary phenomenon requiring a commensurate response. It is daunting because there is little functioning solidarity among the varied human communities, cultures, and nation states of the planet. My chapter for […]
By Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Hilda P. Koster. The book Planetary Solidarity (Minneapolis: Fortress Press 2017) brings together leading Latina, womanist, Asian, Asian American, South American, European, and African theologians on the issues of doctrine, women, and climate justice. (See also JFSR‘s own roundtable “Climate Change Is a Feminist Issue” in JFSR 33, no. 2, 2017: […]
FSR Blog’s fourth @theTable series invites you to our panel conversation around the topic of “Planetary Solidarity.” This panel comes out of a recent collected volume Planetary Solidarity: Global Women’s Voices on Christian Doctrine and Climate Justice (Fortress Press, 2017). We are privileged to showcase some of the work within the volume with short blogs that highlight […]