January 15, 2020
This article highlights the key issues in the ongoing debate about the meaning of the cross of Jesus Christ within feminist theological literature in the United States. MA: Peeters – Leuven – Dudley
Reflections and analysis of pedagogical strategies co-teaching ―Feminism and Families.‖ Students studied the structural bases of women‘s poverty and experiences of domestic violence, and philosophical and theological analyses of poverty and violence. This study was embodied through service by students and faculty at a local transitional housing facility for women survivors and their families. With […]
This article explores the shift taking place on college campuses regarding religious and spiritual beliefs, through analysis of the findings of a ‘spirituality survey’ at Goucher College in 2003-2004. Published jointly by EDUCATION as Transformation and NASPA. Fall, 2004; and Journal of Religion and Education, Fall, 2004.
This article analyzes viewer response to The Passion of the Christ, focusing on how viewers interpreted the film‘s dominant atonement images, in order to explore just how these images operate in popular culture, how they influence values, practices and beliefs, and to question the social impact of the discourse of violence and redemptive dynamics imbedded […]
The language of “sacrifice” in official U.S. government communications was strategically utilized to generate support for the Iraq war in the American public following Sept. 11, 2001. I explore victimage rhetoric and framing, and feminist theological criticisms of Christian atonement metaphors to argue that familiar religious connotations of sacrificial language created a frame with deep […]
This article draws on analysis of the ―logic of masculinist protection,‖ outlined by Iris Marion Young to describe the security regime that emerged in the United States following Sept. 11, 2001. Young‘s analysis is brought to bear to explore Augustine‘s writing on war. I probe how ―necessity‖ and ―sacrifice‖ in Christian ethics and theology wittingly/unwittingly […]
