Women, Wisdom, and Witness: Engaging Contexts in Conversation

Nancy Dallavalle is a contributing author, “Icons and Integrity: Catholic Women in the Church and in the Public Square . Book description: The New Voices Seminar is a lively, intergenerational, and diverse group of women scholars who take an interdisciplinary approach to the study of Christianity. Under the leadership of Kathleen Dolphin, the seminar gathers annually at Saint Mary\u27s College, Notre Dame, for collegial and collaborative conversation about women in the church and in the world. With Women, Wisdom, and Witness, readers are invited to join their conversation. This collection of essays by seminar members addresses significant contexts of contemporary women\u27s experience: suffering and resistance, education, and the crossroads of religion and public life. Theology is brought to bear on some pressing issues in our time: poverty, sexual norms, trauma and slavery, health care, immigration, and the roles of women in academia and in the church. Readers will discover the rich socio-political, interdisciplinary, and dialogical implications of Catholic women\u27s intellectual and social praxis in contemporary theology and ethics.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/religiousstudies-books/1018/thumbnail.jp

Religion and Reproductive Rights, Freedoms, and Justice in a Post-Roe World

Religious Studies, Gender Studies, and Hartley House sponsored a panel lecture and discussion with leading scholars who addressed the intersections of religion with reproductive rights, freedoms, and justice in the aftermath of the US Supreme Court\u27s reversal of Roe v. Wade. Topics included, among others, comparative religious perspectives about abortion in Islam, Judaism, and Christianity; justification frameworks that shape views and discussions about abortion in the US; reproductive justice in progressive Christianity; and religio-political contexts and implications of the US Supreme Court decision. All panelists provided consent to the recording of this event.https://poetcommons.whittier.edu/media/1008/thumbnail.jp