Feminism, Sexuality, and the Return of Religion

List of Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS • 185 185 Contributors Linda Martín Alcoff is Professor of Philosophy at Hunter­ College/CUNY Graduate Center. Recent books include Thinking From the Underside of History, edited with Eduardo Mendieta; Real Knowing: New Versions of the Coherence Theory of Knowledge; Singing in the Fire: Tales of Women in Philosophy; Visible Identities: Race, Gender and the Self; The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy, edited with Eva Feder ­ Kittay; and Identity Politics Reconsidered, edited with Michael Hames-Garcia, Satya Mohanty, and Paula Moya. John D. Caputo is the Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion and Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University. His newest books are What Would Jesus Deconstruct? (2007) After the Death of God (2007; with Gianni Vattimo, ed. Jeffrey Robbins); The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event (iup, 2006), winner of the 2007 AAR Book Award, “Constructive-Reflective Studies”; and Philosophy and Theology (2006). He has recently co-edited St. Paul among the Philosophers (iup, 2009). He is editor of the Fordham University Press book series “Perspectives in­ Continental Philosophy” and Chairman of the Board of Editors of Journal of Cultural and Religious Theory. Hélène Cixous, Professor of English Literature, University of Paris– VIII, is an internationally acclaimed feminist theorist, literary critic, novelist , and playwright. Raised in colonial Algeria, like her lifelong friend Jacques Derrida, whom she first met in 1963, she founded and directed 186 • CONTRIBUTORS the Center for Research on Women’s Studies at Vincenne in 1974 where she taught until 2005. Her first book, Le Prénom de dieu, was published in 1967. She is the author of several hundred works, including a trilogy Le Troisième Corps (1970; The Third Body), Les Commencements (1970), and Neutre (1972); Prénoms de personne (1974); La Jeune née (1975; The Newly Born Woman ); Portrait de Dora (1976; Portrait of Dora); Le Livre de Promethea (1983; The Book of Promethea); Jours de l’an (1990; First Days of the Year); L’Ange au secret (1991); OR, les lettres de mon père (1997); Rêveries de la femme sauvage (2000; Reveries of the Wild Woman); Manhattan (2002); Hyperrêve (2006; Hyperdream). Sarah Coakley is Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, and previously taught at Lancaster, Oxford, and Harvard universities. A systematic theologian and philosopher of religion, she seeks to combine feminist theory with these more classic disciplines. She is the author or editor of a number of books, including Religion and the Body; Powers and Submisions: Philosophy, Spirituality and Gender; ReThinking Gregory of Nyssa; Pain and its Transformations; and Re-Thinking Dionysius the Areopagite (2009). She is at work on a four-part systematic theology, the first volume of which is entitled God, Sexuality and the Self: An Essay ‘On the Trinity’. Kelly Brown Douglas is the Elizabeth Conolly Todd Distinguished Professor of Religion at Goucher College. She is the author Sexuality and the Black Church; The Black Christ and What’s Faith Got to Do With it. She is currently working on Black and Blues/God-Talk/Body Talk for the Black Church. Mark D. Jordan is R. R. Niebuhr Professor at Harvard Divinity School. He is interested in the creation of ethical subjects, the discipline of religious bodies, and the words that accomplish both. His recent books include Telling Truths in Church: Scandal, Flesh, and Christian Speech and Blessing Same-Sex Unions: The Perils of Queer Romance and the Confusions of Christian Marriage. Catherine Keller is Professor of Constructive Theology at the Theological School and the Graduate Division of Religion of Drew Uni- CONTRIBUTORS • 187 versity. She is author of, most recently, On the Mystery: Discerning Divinity in Process; God and Power: Counter-Apocalyptic Explorations; Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming; Apocalypse Now & Then: A Feminist Guide to the End of the World; and From a Broken Web: Separation, Sexism and Self; she has co-edited Process and Difference: Between Cosmological and Poststructuralist Postmodernism, as well as several “Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquium” volumes, including Toward a Theology of Eros; Ecospirit; and Apophatic Bodies. Saba Mahmood is associate professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (2005) that received the Victoria Schuck award from the American Association of Political Science. She is also the co-author of Is Critique Secular? Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech (2009). Her work focuses...