Challenging Bias against Women Academics in Religion

Authors

Colleen Hartung; Deborah Fulthorp; Jonathon Eder; Mary Hamlen; Rosalind Hinton; Carolyn Bratnober; Kimberley Carter; Janice Poss; Karma Lekshe Tsomo; Juliany González Nieves; Sheryl Johnson

Synopsis

The second volume in the Women in Religion series, Challenging Bias against Women Academics in Religion presents biographies about women in academia who study, research, and teach about the world’s religious and spiritual traditions. It addresses the question of why so many women academics, who are themselves producers of secondary sources, are absent as biographical subjects in secondary literature generally and on digital knowledge platforms specifically. Authors variously challenge the exclusionary assumptions that underlie systemic bias in the production of secondary and tertiary sources about women. This critical engagement disrupts sourcing and writing conventions that support and perpetuate bias and creates the opportunity for more expansive and inclusive biographical narratives about women.

Chapters

  • Creating Inclusive Biographical Narratives
    A Disruptive Use of Sources and Writing Conventions
    Colleen Hartung
    Introduction
  • Carolyn Tennant
    Prophet and Mystic at the Helm of Pentecostal Education: A Ballast in the Current of Change
    Deborah Fulthorp
    Chapter 1
  • Mary Burt Messer
    Christian Science Healer as Sociologist and Scholar
    Jonathon Eder
    Chapter 2
  • Isabel Apawo Phiri
    Centering the Voices of Women in Africa
    Mary Hamlen
    Chapter 3
  • Stephanie Y. Mitchem
    R/evolutionary Acts
    Rosalind Hinton
    Chapter 4
  • Traci C. West
    Disruptive Activism, Ministry, and Scholarship
    Carolyn Bratnober
    Chapter 5
  • Chanequa Walker-Barnes
    21st-century Womanist Advocate
    Kimberley Carter
    Chapter 6
  • Mary Milligan, RSHM, STD
    Selvage Leadership within the Fabric of Church
    Janice Poss
    Chapter 7
  • Paula Kane Robinson Arai
    Navigating Cultural Intimacy and Scholarly Authority
    Karma Lekshe Tsomo
    Chapter 8
  • Agustina Luvis Núñez
    A Life of Wandering through the Horizons of God’s Justice
    Juliany González Nieves
    Chapter 9
  • Greer Anne Wenh-In Ng
    Green is Better than Blue
    Sheryl Johnson
    Chapter 10

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Published

October 25, 2021

Series

Women in Religion
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