Being Feminist, Being Christian

Being Feminist, Being Christian	B677P
Essays from Academia edited by Allyson Jule and Bettina Tate Pedersen

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This collection of eight extended essays explores the various intersections of feminism, feminist theory and practice, and Christian tradition as it is lived out in the lives of Christian academics. The basic question informing this volume is, "Can a person be Christian and feminist at the same time?" The authors aim to demonstrate that a person can, and go on to illustrate the various ways current thinkers are working this out. This collection is unique in its gathering of Christian perspectives from both Catholic and Protestant traditions and explores questions and issues that arise when people of faith encounter feminism in both public, private, and personal doamins.

"Yes, the book is academic; however, it is replete with story as well. Autobiographical and biographical sketches lend an endearing quality to the book and makes this a book that is able to speak to a variety of audiences...Regardless of whatever level of academic achievement, the reader of this book is called to action. The essays do not demand the reader to agree with them, but they do challenge the reader to not be afraid of reasoned and thoughtful conversation with feminist theory, and to at least glimpse the fruitful profundity of the intersection of feminism and Christianity." —CBE reviewer

Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
Paperback, 5.5 x 8.25 inches, 224 pages

Allyson Jule is associate professor of education and co-director of the Gender Studies Institute at Trinity Western University, Canada.

Bettina Tate Pedersen is professor of literature at Point Loma Nazarene University.