The Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion recognizes four outstanding articles for the 2020 Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza New Scholars Award. First place was awarded to Pearl Maria Barros for her article “Rethinking Women’s Suffering and Holiness: Gloria Anzaldúa’s ‘Holy Relics’” and second place to Ryan S. Higgins for “He Would …More »

The 2019 Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza New Scholars Awards first-place prize was given to two emerging scholars in the field of feminist studies in religion: Darrius D’wayne Hills for his article, “‘Admirable or Ridiculous?’: The Burdens of Black Women Scholars and Dialogue in the Work of Solidarity” and Zachary Thomas Settle …More »

Congratulations to this year’s winners of the Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza New Scholars Awards! 1st Place Elizabeth Gish, “‘Are You a “Trashable” Styrofoam Cup?’: Harm and Damage Rhetoric in the Contemporary American Sexual Purity Movement” 2nd Place Angela N. Parker, “One Womanist’s View of Racial Reconciliation in Galatians” Both Elizabeth Gish’s …More »

We at FSR, Inc. are mourning the passing of Rev. Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon. Cannon was a member of both the FSR board and the JFSR board from the organization’s beginning. Cannon was a woman of many firsts: “the first African American woman ordained by the Presbyterian Church U.S.A.; the …More »

The Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion is excited to announce its new poetry editor, Constance Merritt. Welcome, Constance! Merritt is an award-winning American poet and a self-described “…reader, art maker, music lover, social justicer, inveterate learner, job seeker, [and] freckle face.” Merritt has four published volumes of poetry: Blind …More »

We are happy to announce the arrival of the newest issue of JFSR: Volume 34, Number 1 (Spring 2018). This is a special issue dedicated to trans and queer scholarship, dialogue, and teaching.  It contains a literature review essay on trans* studies in religion, an Across Generations conversation with Dr. …More »

Be more informed. More global. More critical. Learn from feminist scholars around the world. Experience religion, theology, and spirituality though a lens that is both academic and accessible. The best part? A year’s subscription costs less than your monthly budget for morning coffee. The Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion offers an …More »

  We are happy to announce the arrival of the newest issue of JFSR: Volume 33, Number 1 (Spring 2017)! This issue is packed with exciting new material, including a special section on women in American Catholic theology fifty years after Vatican II, two Across Generations interviews with Carol P. Christ and Mary E. Hunt, a “short takes” conversation …More »

JFSR is happy to announce that Jill Hammer will be joining our editorial team as a Poetry Submissions Co-editor—welcome Jill!More »

We are happy to announce the arrival of the newest issue of JFSR: Volume 32, Number 2 (Fall 2016). This issue is packed with exciting new material, including a Roundtable on Feminism and Islam: Exploring the Boundaries of Critique, an Across Generations interview with Mercy Amba Oduyoye, and a thematic In a Different Voice on Doubt, We are …More »