Notes on Contributors
Rabbi Rebecca T. Alpert is Associate Professor of Religion and Women's Studies at Temple University. She is coauthor of Exploring Judaism: A Reconstructionist Approach (1997), author of Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition (1997), and editor of Voices of the Religious Left: A Contemporary Sourcebook (2000), as well as numerous articles. She teaches in the areas of religion and contemporary social issues: sexuality, the politics of race and gender, and medical ethics and is currently at work on a book on Jews and baseball.
Donna Berman holds a Ph.D. from Drew University in Religion and Social Ethics and is Rabbi Emerita of Port Jewish Center in Port Washington, New York. An activist theologian, she now serves as the Executive Director of the Charter Oak Cultural Center, a multicultural arts center in one of the poorest sections of Hartford, Connecticut. Berman is the coeditor, along with Judith Plaskow, of The Coming of Lilith: Essays on Feminism, Judaism, and Sexual Ethics, 1972–2003.
Katie G. Cannon is the Annie Scales Rogers Professor of Christian Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education, in Richmond, Virginia, and the author of, most recently, Teaching Preaching: Isaac Rufus Clark and Black Sacred Rhetoric (2002).
Carol P. Christ, a JFSR editorial board member, is a leader in the fields of feminist theology and women and religion. She is author of She Who Changes (2003), Rebirth of the Goddess (1997), Odyssey with the Goddess (1995), Laughter of Aphrodite (1987), and Diving Deep and Surfacing (1980/1985/1995); and coeditor with Judith Plaskow of Womanspirit Rising (1979/1992) and Weaving the Visions: New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality (1989). She is Adjunct Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies and Director of the Ariadne Institute for the Study of Myth and Ritual (http://www.goddessariadne.org/), which offers Goddess Pilgrimages in Crete. She has been Judith Plaskow's theo-a-logical soul mate since 1969. [End Page 141]
Mary C. Churchill teaches in the Women and Gender Studies Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She earned her Ph.D. in religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, specializing in American Indian religious traditions and women and religion. Her work has appeared in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, and American Indian Quarterly as well as in Sacred Rights: The Case for Contraception and Abortion in World Religions (2003) and Reading Native American Women: Critical/Creative Representations (2003). In 2001, she was a Bunting Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.
E. Jane Cooper recently received her Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Born in the United Kingdom, Cooper was involved in voluntary, interfaith work in Europe and Asia before immigrating to New Zealand and raising a family. Her dissertation examines the compatibility of the rational mysticism of Plotinus and Islamic philosopher Afdal al-Din Kashani with feminism. Cooper is interested in the intersection of spirituality with rationality as a basis for interfaith dialogue, gender equity, and ecological responsibility.
Jeannine Hall Gailey's first book of poetry, Becoming the Villainess, was published by Steel Toe Books. Her poems have appeared on Verse Daily (http://www.versedaily.com/) and in journals such as the Iowa Review, Columbia Poetry Review, and Beloit Poetry Journal. Her chapbook, "Female Comic Book Superheroes," is available from Pudding House Press and her Web site, www.webbish6.com.
Kay Koppedrayer is Associate Professor in the Department of Religion and Culture at Wilfrid Laurier University. She works in the intersecting terrains of religious expression, cultural crossroads, and identity formation. An ethnographer as well as textual scholar, her work has taken her to places as diverse as the Rosebud and Pine Ridge Lakota reservations in South Dakota; Saivite religious centres at Tiruvavatuturai and Dharmapuram in South India; a former prison compound in St. Augustine, Florida; and Buddhist sites in the...
