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Ekklesial Work: Toward A Feminist Public Theology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2006

Rosemary P. Carbine
Rosemary P. Carbine
Affiliation:
College of the Holy Cross
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Religion is deeply implicated in contemporary U.S. public life, as demonstrated in the increasing analysis of faith in any given presidential, congressional, or judicial candidate's political viewpoints; in ongoing presidential executive orders that approve government support and funding for faith-based initiatives; and in the continued lobbying by religious groups about a variety of moral and social justice issues such as euthanasia and immigration, to name a sample of recent flashpoint issues. What role do religious claims play in U.S. public life? How does Christian theology help clarify that role? What is the particular contribution of Christian feminist theology to understanding and rethinking that role?

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Harvard Theological Review , Volume 99 , Issue 4 , October 2006 , pp. 433 - 455
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

This essay draws on two public lectures that I delivered while holding the position of Research Associate and Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's Studies in Theology in the Women's Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School during the 2005–2006 term. I extend my deepest thanks to my institution for a junior sabbatical leave to pursue this research. I also thank Ann Braude, director, Women's Studies in Religion Program (WSRP); Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Francis Fiorenza, and Ronald Thiemann at Harvard Divinity School; my colleagues in the WSRP, Gannit Ankori, Constance Furey, Shahla Haeri, and Jia Jinhua; and my colleagues in the Boston College Women Theologians Writing Group, all of whom provided such a generous and inspiring intellectual community in which to undertake and share this research.