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Introductionmlescher{at}verizon.net The purpose of this panel is to honor the many contributions of Rosemary Radford Ruether in the field of feminist theology, focusing on her most recent book America, Amerikkka: Elect Nation and Imperial Violence. Rosemary Radford Ruether is the Carpenter Emerita Professor of Feminist Theology at Pacific School of Religion and the GTU, as well as the Georgia Harkness Emerita Professor of Applied Theology at Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary. She is currently a visiting professor, part-time, at Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate University. Rosemary has enjoyed a long and distinguished career as a scholar, teacher, and activist in the Roman Catholic Church, and is well known as a groundbreaking figure in Christian feminist theology. She has published numerous books, including Sexism and God-Talk, In Our Own Voices: Four Centuries of American Women's Religious Writing (ed. with Rosemary Skinner Keller), and The Wrath of Jonah: The Crisis of Religious Nationalism in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (with Herman J. Ruether). Her more recent books include Goddesses and the Divine Feminine: A Western Religious History (May 2005), Integrating Ecofeminism, Globalization, and World Religions (Nature's Meaning) (June 2005), a collaborative multi-volume Encyclopedia of Women in American Religion, with Rosemary Skinner Keller (April 2006), and Interpreting the Postmodern: Responses to `Radical Orthodoxy' (ed. with Marion Grau (January 2006). Rosemary's new book America, Amerikkka was published in 2007.
Key Words: capitalism • ecology • imperialism • racism.
Feminist Theology, Vol. 17, No. 2,
143-144 (2009) |
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