Searching for a Usable Past
This piece was originally published on March 30, 2021 on the Feminist Studies in Religion Blog.
By Michal Raucher.
Children's book published in 2021 about an Iraqi female rabbi in the 17th century, long before Jewish women were ordained institutionally.
Deborah. Bruriah. Yalta. The Maiden of Ludmir. Osnat Barzani. Regina Jonas. Gluckl of Hameln. Sarah Schneirer. Blu Greenberg. Belda Lindenbaum.
At the annual graduation ceremony for Yeshivat Maharat, an Orthodox Jewish…
Cleaning Up Our Messes
By Angela N. Parker.
Photo by Jacob Morch on Unsplash
On January 29th Rochester police handcuffed and pepper sprayed a distressed nine year old Black girl child. Let that sink in.
While responding to a domestic call, police pepper-sprayed a…
Revisiting Matriarchy in Brazil
This piece was originally published on February 1, 2021 on the Feminist Studies in Religion Blog as a part of a virtual roundtable series entitled, "Racism and the Feminist Study in Religion."
By Jamie Lee Andreson.
"Lavagem das Escadarias da Igreja do Bonfim — 2013" by Prefeitura de Olinda is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Matriarchy, understood as Black women's leadership, has been a central criterion in public debates…
Colaboración as an Antiracist Methodology in the Feminist Study of Religion
This piece was originally published on January 22, 2021 on the Feminist Studies in Religion Blog as a part of a virtual roundtable series entitled, "Racism and the Feminist Study in Religion."
By Darryl W. Stephens and Elizabeth Soto Albrecht.
Scholarship conceived as the lone academic expert seated behind an…
Roll/Role Call: Invocation, Remembrance, Lamentation, and #SayHerName
By Jennifer T. Kaalund.
We are born and have our being in a place of memory…We know ourselves…
Black Women's Bodies On My Mind
This piece was originally published on January 21, 2021 on the Feminist Studies in Religion Blog.
By Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder.
"Kamala Harris" by Gage Skidmore is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
As a Black woman has just become the first Black, first woman, first South Asian to occupy the U.S. vice presidency, Black women's bodies have been on my mind. My…
When the Subaltern Speaks! Why Caste Must Matter in the Case of Hathras
This piece was originally published on December 29, 2020 on the Feminist Studies in Religion Blog.
By Sharon Jacob.
"India on the road, bricks, revisiting the caste system, New Delhi, 2001" by rahuldlucca is licensed under CC BY 2.0
In her seminal essay, "Can the Subaltern Speak?" Gayatri C. Spivak points out that the subaltern cannot speak not because, "the subaltern cannot pronounce words or produce sentences. The subaltern "cannot…
Can Anything Good Come Out of Troy?
This piece was originally published on August 11, 2020 on the Feminist Studies in Religion Blog.
Warren K. Leffler/Library of Congress
There is a theology of geography. There is a connection between space and fate. There is something unspoken that connects destiny with places, places with people. Towns and cities do…
This Is Not an Antiracist Reading List, OR, the Treachery of Allyship
This piece was originally published on June 11, 2020 on the Feminist Studies in Religion Blog.
Photo by Patrick Tomasso on Unsplash
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…
COVID-19 and the Mandate to Regenerate All Our Relations
By Yohana Agra Junker. [1]
Over the past few weeks we have been forced to grapple with the ways COVID-19 has shaken our structures in profound ways. As the numbers rise exponentially, we are…
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