Nevertheless, We Persist: A Feminist Public Theology - Paperback

by Rosemary P. Carbine (Author)

Elaborates an innovative feminist theological approach to the public church and to the praxis of public theology as ekklesial work, that is, creating community or creating a shared public life; it constructs and then applies this approach to identify and interpret theological claims (imago Dei, Christology, ecclesiology) and practices of public engagement (rhetorical, symbolic, and prophetic) exemplified mainly but not only by Christian social justice leaders and movements.

Drawing on major figures in feminist and womanist theologies as well as public theology, Nevertheless, We Persist examines a rich range of historical and contemporary faith-based movements such as the Catholic Worker, the Civil Rights Movement, United Farm Workers, and The Plowshares Movement. Each chapter ends with a contemporary social movement that continues and radicalizes a part of an earlier movement but in more multifaith ways in order to redress the increasing fracture of US public life in our time, such as the Revolutionary Love Project, The Poor People's Campaign, The New Sanctuary Movement, and Green Nuns. The book concludes with a contemporary case study of feminist intersectional and interfaith justice, drawing out insights from NETWORK's Nuns on the Bus for the future ekklesial work of feminist public theology to create community and to construct a shared public life that expands beyond single social issues and religions.

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RELIGION / Christian Theology / General

RELIGION / Christian Living / Women's Interests

RELIGION / Christian Living / Social Issues

Cover image: "Companion: Mary Magdalene with Joanna and Susanna (The Succession of Mary Magdalene)" by Janet McKenzie

Cover design: Ponie Sheehan

Author Biography

Rosemary P. Carbine is associate professor of religious studies, Whittier College, CA. She holds master's and doctoral degrees in theology from the University of Chicago Divinity School, is a former co-chair of the Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Unit of the American Academy of Religion and is former convener of Theological Anthropology and the Women's Consultation in Constructive Theology, Catholic Theological Society of America (CTSA). Currently, Carbine is an editorial team member and edits the Winter issue of the international journal Critical Theology and convenes the Public Theology Interest Group in the CTSA.

Cover image: "Companion: Mary Magdalene with Joanna and Susanna (The Succession of Mary Magdalene)" by Janet McKenzie