Volume 34 Number 1, 2018

The editors of the JFSR apologize for a grave error that recurs throughout volume 34, number 1. References to trans women and trans men were edited to read transwomen and transmen. We recognize that for many readers this appellation is deeply insulting as it implies that such persons are not fully women or men but a separate category altogether. This alteration is doubly disturbing as this issue marked an effort to take responsibility for a history of destructive transphobia on the part of feminist scholars of religion and to forge new connections between feminist, womanist, queer and trans theories and methods in the study of religion.

Front Matter

Editors’ Introduction

Elizabeth Pritchard and Kate M. Ott

Letter to the Editors

Asma Barlas

Multiplicity and Contradiction: A Literature Review of Trans* Studies in Religion

Siobhan M. Kelly

Becoming Grateful Allies: An Interview with Dr.Virginia Ramey Mollenkott

David E. Weekley

Transing Religious Studies

Max Strassfeld

In the Image of God, God Created Them: Toward Trans Theology

Joy Ladin

Transing the Study of Religion: A (Christian) Theological Response

Ellen T. Armour

Transing Religious Studies: Beyond the Secular/Religious Binary

Evren Savcı

“Scotch-Taped Together”: Anti-“Androgyny” Rhetoric, Transmisogyny, and the Transing of Religious Studies

Cameron Partridge

Transing and Gendering Religious Studies

Judith Plaskow

Transing Back the Texts, Queering Jewish Prayer

Zohar Weiman-Kelman

Religion Is Already Transed; Religious Studies Is Not (Yet) Listening

Melissa M. Wilcox

Transing Religion: Moving Beyond the Logic of the (Hetero) Norm of Binaries

Robyn Henderson-Espinoza

Nothing Like a Love Sonnet for Greeley, Colorado, or Something Like a Love Poem for Greeley Queers, 1993–1998 / For Angie Zapata

Qwo-Li Driskill

Excerpt from “The Gospel According to Jesus Queen of Heaven”

Jo Clifford

Introduction

Sarojini Nadar and Adriaan van Klinken

Queering the Sociology Curriculum: The Case of Belief, Spirituality, and Religion

Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip

Interdisciplinarity and Theology: Accidentally Queering the Curriculum in a Master’s Seminar

Rachel Muers

Queering the “Church and AIDS” Curriculum: Tracing an Improper (and Indecent) Trajectory

Gerald O. West

Effective Pedagogy of Diversity and Inclusivity at Sheffield

Minna Shkul

Precarious Curriculum and Precarious Contexts: Teaching Turbulent Topics in Turbulent Times

Farah Zeb

Bringing Queer into Muslim Spaces: Community-Based Pedagogy in Cape Town

Afshan Kamrudin

Sitting in Difference: Queering the Study of Islam

Fatima Seedat

“Reparative Reading” as Queer Pedagogy

Sîan Melvill Hawthorne

Diversifying the Higher-Education Curriculum: Queering the Design and Pedagogy

Sarasvathie Reddy