New PDF release: Feminism and Christianity: Questions and Answers in the

Why may still feminists care approximately Christianity? Why may still Christians care approximately feminism? In Feminism and Christianity Riswold provides a set of concise solutions to easy questions like those as a way to generate dialogue approximately how the 2 can problem one another and will even interact within the twenty-first century. located firmly within the 3rd wave of feminist activism and scholarship in addition to in modern Christian theology, Riswold addresses matters reminiscent of race, classification, gender, and sexuality with an confirmation of culture along a push for swap. This publication is a chance for Christians to realize a fuller realizing of feminism, relocating past stereotypes and assumptions and into background and modern society. at the same time this e-book is a chance for feminists to appreciate the continued relevance of a faith whose social energy and center commitments can give a contribution to a imaginative and prescient of a simply human community.

"Riswold's expertise as a instructor comes shining via as she confronts the suspicions Christians and feminists carry of each other, calling for appreciation of the complexity and variety in either traditions. instead of easily reviewing prior interactions among Christianity and feminism, she boldly takes the dialog into the twenty-first century through attractive the urgent problems with race, ecology, sexuality, and interreligious knowing. A must-read for college kids, e-book teams, and students alike."
--Deanna A. Thompson,
Professor of Religion
Hamline University

"Even even though the dialog among feminism and Christianity has built for many years, no different publication so in actual fact names and solutions the major questions they ask of one another . . . Riswold's booklet is a pleasant introductory source for people, periods, and teams because it touches on and aptly solutions the entire major questions and fears i've got heard expressed from scholars in women's reports and faith classes pertaining to feminism and Christianity. All in all, Feminism and Christianity exemplifies Riswold's reward for thorough, vast scholarship awarded in a truly transparent, attractive, and available style."
--Marit A.Trelstad
editor of pass Examinations: Readings at the which means of the go Today

“Caryn Riswold’s publication is a masterpiece within the infrequent paintings of distilling complicated highbrow histories into lucid available narratives, and articulating advanced principles with readability. This paintings finds Riswold’s refined mind and her agility in feminist notion, Christian theology, and the interaction among them. The reader will input a strikingly sincere, bold, fruitful, and lively dialog among feminism and Christianity. Riswold highlights the wealthy range inside each one and illumines their shared dedication to a extra simply, compassionate, and sustainable world.”
--Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, affiliate Professor of Theological Ethics, Seattle University

Caryn D. Riswold is affiliate Professor of faith and chair of Gender and Women's reports at Illinois university in Jacksonville, Illinois. She is the writer of 2 Reformers: Martin Luther and Mary Daly as Political Theologians (2007) and Coram Deo: Human lifestyles within the imaginative and prescient of God (2006).