This course examines major theological themes in Christianity and the role that critical theoretical and religious analyses of gender, race/ethnicity, class, sexuality, ecology, culture, and geopolitics play in re- articulating those themes within women’s liberation theologies in the United States. More specifically, this course explores multicultural women’s criticisms and reconstructions of traditionalist Christian beliefs and practices regarding the divine, salvation, the human person, ritual, and the role of religion in public life. To do so, we will engage in a critical comparative and intersectional study of women’s theologies of liberation from Anglo feminist, African American womanist, Latina feminist or mujerista, and Asian American feminist perspectives. Through our study of multicultural women’s liberation theologies within U.S. Christianities, we will consider their similarities and differences, as well as interrogate our own understandings and those of the theologians about the relationships between religion and women’s oppression as well as women’s liberation.
- Teacher: Rosemary Carbine