Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion articles from September 2005

Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion archives from September 2005

Editors' introduction.
September 22, 2005... With vision and courage, Judith Plaskow and Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza cofounded the JFSR, and the first issue appeared in the spring of 1985. In the past twenty years, the journal has published more than 300 contributions, as well as 18...

Persephone's sacred lake and the ancient female mystery religion in the womb of sicily.
September 22, 2005... There is a lake, of waters clear and deep, Not far from the walls of Enna, called Pergus. Even Cayster never heard Such singing of swans, so many have nested here; With dark branches, a wood gives shade, Encircling the...

A greater awakening: women's intellect as a factor in early abolitionist movements, 1824-1834.
September 22, 2005... Criticism of religion is the premise of all criticism. --Karl Marx Prudence Crandall, well-known Quaker schoolteacher, was in fact not a Quaker in 1833, when she transformed her female academy into an academy for black women. Crandall,...

Women of Sodom and Gomorrah: collateral damage in the war against homosexuality?
September 22, 2005... Associating the biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah with homosexuality is common among the Christian Right. More specifically, many associate God's annihilation of these cities with the idea that the men of Sodom and Gomorrah were gay,...

"My/our" comfort not at the expense of "somebody else's": toward a critical global feminist theology.(Cutting Edges)
September 22, 2005... Asking what it means to do theology in "my" or "our" context when we find that wo/men's lives are closely interrelated to one another across national borders through the process of globalization, this article attempts to reconsider both...

Pastorale, 6/83-12/86.(In a Different Voice)(Poem)
September 22, 2005... Pastorale, 6/83-1286 1. November Maple trees stripped bare their leaves compressing under an early snow, like me in this white New England church, my charge & cell. I close the office, work at the kitchen...

A short history of JFSR.(Special Section: JFSR TWENTIETH-ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION)
September 22, 2005... Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza and I leapt into founding JFSR the way many people leap into having children--without the faintest idea of what was involved! We first met and became friends at the Women Exploring Theology Conference at Grailville,...

The contribution of JFSR to shaping the field.(Special Section: JFSR TWENTIETH-ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION)(Poem)
September 22, 2005... THE CONTRIBUTION OF JFSR TO SHAPING THE FIELD i find the notion of "the field" to be a curious one this was heightened when i typed in field in the "look it up" line of my Visual Thesaurus program (1) ...

Learning with JFSR.(Special Section: JFSR TWENTIETH-ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION)
September 22, 2005... For my part in the celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, I have been asked to offer critical reflection on my experience of learning with the journal. I am particularly happy to do this...

Don't be afraid of the F-word: feminism, fun, and the future.(Special Section: JFSR TWENTIETH-ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION)(Panel Discussion)
September 22, 2005... In preparation for this panel celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, I scouted around for some data on the current "health" of feminist publishing. On the one hand, there were notables such as Ritu...

JFSR at twenty: time for a growth spurt?(Special Section: JFSR TWENTIETH-ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION)
September 22, 2005... In preparation for writing this reflection, I recently paused to review each of the twenty volumes that constitute the JFSR to date. There is, of course, an impressive array of articles, roundtables, commentaries, and review essays, many of...

A "transit home" away from home.(Special Section: JFSR TWENTIETH-ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION)
September 22, 2005... There is a growing feeling, especially among feminists, that the separation of the personal and the academic is not only problematic but also damaging. When I came across JFSR in the late 1980s, after I moved from a German university to a...

Thoughts on the twentieth birthday of JFSR.(Special Section: JFSR TWENTIETH-ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION)
September 22, 2005... Exactly one week after JFSR's twentieth-anniversary conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts, I was in Seoul, Korea, delivering a lecture titled "What's God Got to Do with It? The Place of Religious Studies in a Women's Studies Curriculum," at...

Coloring outside the lines.(Special Section: JFSR TWENTIETH-ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION)
September 22, 2005... Generally, humans need some safe haven: a home, a nest, some burrow where rest is possible. Women who labor in the academic world usually understand this need in more specific ways because of continuing unpleasant experiences in the workplace,...

The secret of JFSR.(Special Section: JFSR TWENTIETH-ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION)
September 22, 2005... The "Teaching for Change" conference was an outstanding event, one of the most interesting conferences I have ever attended, and as many of the women attending put it--a historical moment. Superbly moderated by Mary Hunt and made inspiring by a...

Womanist works in word.(Living It Out)
September 22, 2005... It is remarkable that twenty years ago African American women in the American Academy of Religion (AAR) and the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) decided to carve out living space as womanists. Our experience as doctoral students and the...

PANAAWTM lives!(Living It Out)(Pacific, Asian, and North American Asian Women in Theology and Ministry)
September 22, 2005... On October 5, 1984, thirteen women, predominantly Asian graduate students in theological institutions and several working in ministry in the United States, gathered at the home of Professor Letty Russell. The meeting was convened by the Women's...