Notes on Contributors
Elizabeth Amoah is Senior Lecturer at the University of Ghana, where she has been teaching since 1979. She is a founding member of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians and a member of the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians. She has published a number of articles on African religion and gender.
Michele Arista holds a master's degree in Woman's Spirituality at New College of California. She is a mother, an environmental specialist at Boston University, a poet, an iconographer, and a choreographer of Middle Eastern dance. Her spiritual practice is to reinstitute images, prayers, and songs of Mary in the Roman Catholic Church and to acknowledge her ancient lineage to the Divine Feminine. Her iconography can be seen in OCRE, an online women's spirituality journal from CIIS, debuting this fall.
Mary Ann Beavis is Professor and Head of the Department of Religious Studies and Anthropology at St. Thomas More College in Saskatoon, Canada. She is the author of many articles and book reviews. Her most recent book is Jesus and Utopia: Looking for the Kingdom of God in the Roman World (1996). An edited work, Feminist Theology with a Canadian Accent, is forthcoming.
Kimberly A. Bresler is a May 2007 graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary. She is a lecturer in the Christian tradition at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia.
Inbal Cicurel's interests focus on encounters between religion, gender, identity, and power and the ways in which weak groups use religion to resist the excluding power of the hegemony. Her master's thesis discussed the choices of nonreligious women in religious practices (menstruation laws) as a means for empowerment and self-expression. Her doctoral thesis referred to the structuration of the identity of a group that is socially excluded as a result of their religion (the Karaites). Today she is a researcher and lecturer in anthropology at the Ben-Gurion University, Ashkelon Academic College, and Sapir College. [End Page 171]
Monica A. Coleman is Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology at Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. She is author of The Dinah Project: A Handbook for Congregational Response to Sexual Violence (2004) and essays and articles published in JFSR, Wesleyan Theological Journal, Teaching Theology and Religion, Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal, African American Pulpit, and Handbook for Process Theology. She is currently working on a postmodern womanist theology and a project on disability theology.
Noelle Damico is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and the Catalyst of the School of Theology, University of the Poor, which brings together poor leaders, scholars, and people of faith for shared reflection and action to end poverty (www.universityofthepoor.org/theology). She also serves as National Coordinator of the Campaign for Fair Food for the Presbyterian Church (USA), a partnership effort with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers to ensure human rights for farm workers harvesting for the fast-food and grocery industries (www.pcusa.org/fairfood).
Claudia Ann Highbaugh is the Dean for Religious and Spiritual Life at Connecticut College. She served the Harvard Divinity School as Chaplain and Associate Director of Ministerial Studies from 1993 to 2006. Previously she was Associate University Chaplain at Yale University and lecturer at the Yale Divinity School. Ordained in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Claudia has served her faith community on a variety of boards and committees, as delegate to the National Council of Churches and the General Board and Administrative Committee of the denomination. Currently, Claudia serves as a member of the Board of Trustees at the Disciples Divinity House at the University of Chicago and the Board of Trustees at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, where she also served at the Davis Visiting Chair for Judaeo-Christian Values. Highbaugh recently coedited Crossing by Faith: Sermons on the Journey from Youth to Adulthood (2003).
Mary E. Hunt, PhD, is a feminist theologian who is cofounder and codirector of the Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual (WATER) in Silver Spring, Maryland...
