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Transforming the Fa i ths o f Our Fathers This page intentionally left blank Transforming the Fa i ths o f Our Fathers WOMEN WHO CHANGED AMERICAN RELIGION Edited by Ann Braude TRANSFORMING THE FAITHS OF OUR FATHERS Copyright © Ann Braude, 2004. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. First published 2004 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN™ 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 and Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England RG21 6XS. Companies and representatives throughout the world. PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St. Martin’s Press, LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries. Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. ISBN 1–4039–6460–2 hardback Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Transforming the faiths of our fathers : women who changed American religion / edited by Ann Braude. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1–4039–6460–2 (cloth) 1. Women religious leaders—United States—Biography. 2. Religious leaders—United States—Biography. 3. Feminists—United States— Biography. I. Braude, Ann. BL72.T73 2004 200’.92’273—dc22 2003063525 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Design by Letra Libre, Inc. First edition: June 2004 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in the United States of America. For my father Marvin Braude This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Introduction, Ann Braude 1 1. Lois Miriam Wilson first woman moderator of the United Church of Canada 13 2. Letty Cottin Pogrebin cofounder, Ms. magazine 31 3. Azizah al-Hibri founder, Karamah: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights 47 4. Virginia Ramey Mollenkott founding member, Evangelical Women’s Caucus 55 5. Rosemary Radford Ruether Catholic feminist theologian 73 6. Ada María Isasi-Diaz Latina feminist theologian 85 7. Carol P. Christ leader of the Goddess movement 97 8. Delores S. Williams womanist theologian 115 9. Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza feminist biblical scholar 135 10. Margaret M. Toscano cofounder, Mormon Women’s Forum 157 11. Riffat Hassan Muslim feminist theologian 173 12. Vicki Noble co-creator, Motherpeace Tarot 199 vi i i TRANSFORMING THE FAITHS OF OUR FATHERS 13. Charlotte Bunch president, Center for Women’s Global Leadership 209 14. Judith Plaskow Jewish feminist theologian 219 15. Nadine Foley historian of the Adrian Dominican Congregation 227 16. Blu Greenberg founding president, Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance 237 Index 253 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS A GENEROUS GRANT FROM THE E. RHODES AND LEONA B. CARPENTER Foundation made possible both this book and the conference on which it is based. The Religion and the Feminist Movement Conference took place November 1–3, 2002, sponsored by the Women’s Studies in Religion Pro- gram at Harvard Divinity School. My greatest thanks go to the women who changed American religion, both those included here and the legions who are not. I thank especially those who spoke at the conference but could not be included in the book: Mary Daly, Roberta Hestenes, Mary Hunt, Gerda Lerner, Jeanne Audrey Powers, Donna Quinn, Letty Russell, Betty Bone Schiess, and Addie Wyatt. I am also grateful to Nan Self and Viscontes C. Johnsen, as well as to the 300 participants who attended the conference. The Cloverleaf Foundation generously supported Canadian participants. A senior fellowship from the Yale Institute for the Study of American Religion enabled me to edit this volume, as well as to work on the larger research project of which it is a part. The conceptualization of the project benefited immeasurably from con- versations with Leila Ahmed, Clarissa Atkinson, Sara Evans, Carolyn de Swaarte Gifford, Emilie Townes, Judith Plaskow, Joan Martin, Mary Hunt, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Rosemary Radford Ruether, Kathleen Sands, Ann Taves, Laurel Ulrich, and Gale Yee. At later stages Carol Hurd Green, Colleen McDannel, Jan Schipps, Eleanor Gadon, and Sue Horner made im- portant suggestions. I am particularly grateful to the Director’s Council of the Harvard Di- vinity School Women’s Studies in Religion Program for their encourage- ment, guidance, and support, especially Lynda Goldstein, Kathy Borgen, Helen La Kelly Hunt, and Letty Cottin Pogrebin. I also appreciate the per- sonal interest in the project of the Reverend Ann B. Day, president of the Carpenter Foundation.
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