Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Naomi Appleton holds a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the School of Religious Studies at Cardiff University, UK. She is currently researching the role of karma and rebirth in early Buddhist and Jain narratives, having written two theses on the subject of jātaka, or stories about the past births of the Buddha (MPhil, Cardiff, 2004; DPhil, Oxford, 2008). Appleton is author of Jātaka Stories in Theravāda Buddhism: Narrating the Bodhisatta Path (2010); teaches courses on Buddhism and Pāli; and is treasurer of the UK Association for Buddhist Studies. [AppletonN1@cardiff.ac.uk]
From working with marginalized students in schools and in adult education settings, Elite Ben-Yosef became interested in the processes and dynamics of learning/teaching. A PhD in Literacy Studies allows her access to this area of research, which she continues to study and write about as she teaches literacy to graduate students, developmental reading to undergraduates, and raising voice with adult women in a recovery center. [eliteby@aol.com]
Carol P. Christ founded the Women's Caucus in the AAR-SBL in 1971. She is author of She Who Changes (2003) and Rebirth of the Goddess ([1997] 1998), and coeditor with Judith Plaskow of Weaving the Visions (1989) and Womanspirit Rising (1979). As director of Ariadne Institute, she leads Goddess Pilgrimages to Crete (www.goddessariadne.org), and as vice president of Friends of Green Lesbos (www.greenlesbos.com), she has written an official complaint to the European Commission regarding degradation of Natura wetlands in her home island, Lesbos, Greece. She teaches Internet graduate courses in the Women's Spirituality Program of California Institute for Integral Studies. [cpc@otenet.gr]
Maaike de Haardt is Catharina Halkes/Unie NKV Professor for Religion and Gender at the Radboud University Nijmegen and Associate Professor for Systematic Studies in Religion/Systematic Theology at Tilburg University, both in the Netherlands. She publishes on everyday life (food, literature, the city) in relation to theological topics, such as "God," presence, death, incarnation, and Mary. Among her recent publications are "Making Sense of Sacred Space in the City," in Exploring the Postsecular: The Religious, the Political, the Urban, ed. A. Molendijk, J. Beaumont, C. Jedan (2010), "Monotheism as a Threat to Relationality," [End Page 147] in Through Us, with Us, in Us: Relational Theologies in the Twenty-First Century, ed. E. Bell Chamber and L. Isherwood (2010), "The Marian Paradox: Marian Practices as a Road to a New Mariology?" Feminist Theology 19, no. 2 (2011): 168-82, and Visual Narratives: Entrance to Everyday Religious Practices (2011). [m.a.c.dehaardt@uvt.nl]
Aysha Hidayatullah is Assistant Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the Jesuit University of San Francisco, where she teaches courses on Islam, gender, race, and ethics. She received her PhD in Religious Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2009. Her dissertation, "Women Trustees of Allah: Methods, Limits, and Possibilities of 'Feminist Theology' in Islam," examines an emerging body of Muslim feminist scholarship on the Qur'an in North America. [ahidayatullah@usfca.edu]
Nami Kim is Assistant Professor of Religion in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. Her recent publications include "Engaging Afro/Black-Orientalism: A Proposal," Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion 1, no. 7 (June 2010): 1-23, "A Mission to the 'Graveyard of Empires'? Neocolonialism and Contemporary Evangelical Missions of the Global South," Mission Studies 27, no. 1 (2010): 3-23, and a co-edited special issue of Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 25, no. 1 (Spring 2009). [nkim@spelman.edu]
Patricia Monaghan is Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at DePaul University, where she teaches literature and environment. The author of four books of poetry and several encyclopedias of mythology including The Encyclopedia of Goddesses and Heroines (1980), she is editor of the Praeger Series in Women, Myth, and Religion. She serves as Senior Fellow for the Black Earth Institute, a think tank for artists whose work connects social justice, environment, and spirituality. [pmonagha@depaul.edu]
Nancy Pineda-Madrid, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Theology at Boston College, where she teaches at the School of Theology and Ministry. She holds...
