Thank you for viewing the Misogynoir to Mishpat website. We are on summer break and will return by Aug 5, 2021. Please check back for our new profiles, essays and seminar announcements. Please consider the various social justice issues which impact women of African descent and religion. We are seeking blog writers for our upcoming … Continue reading Update
Sheltering Under the Wings
I gathered you as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings. (II Esdras 1:30) “May the Lord reward you for your deeds, and may you have a full reward from the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come for refuge!” (Ruth 2:12, NRSV) As the former national adviser to the … Continue reading Sheltering Under the Wings
Introducing: Black Women and Religious Cultures Journal
The Black Women and Religious Cultures Journal publishes peer reviewed, interdisciplinary scholarship on Black women's intersectional realities in religions and spiritualities of local, national, and transnational contexts. BW&RC welcomes work by and about Black women of any generation and identity, from any geographic region of Africa and the African Diaspora. https://www.blackwomenandreligiouscultures.com/submissions. Contact us at: bwandrc@blackwomenandreligiouscultures.com.
Misogynoir to Mishpat Proudly Presents Its Seminar Series – Decolonizing God
Photo by Johannes Rapprich on Pexels.com The Seminar is now rescheduled. Please see the update below. You are invited to the official launch of the new Research Network, Misogynoir to Mishpat You are invited to the official launch of the new Research Network, Misogynoir to Mishpat. Our inaugural seminar series: Decolonizing God for Thursday, 13 … Continue reading Misogynoir to Mishpat Proudly Presents Its Seminar Series – Decolonizing God
Profile: Prof. Esther Mombo
Esther Mombo is Professor of Theology and Church History, and former Deputy Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs at St. Paul’s University in Limuru, Kenya. She received her PhD from the University of Edinburgh. In 2007 she was awarded an honorary doctorate by Virginia Theological Seminary for her work in bringing to the fore issues of … Continue reading Profile: Prof. Esther Mombo
“She Is in Bitter Distress”: A Womanist Ethic of Advocacy
For the past thirty years, many African American women as theologians, ethicists, and Bible scholars have consistently used a womanist interpretation, which we call our “hermeneutic” (a method for reading and studying the Bible or theology), to engage the intersection of race and ethnicity, gender, religion, and class. Such engagement is grounded in communal affirmation, … Continue reading “She Is in Bitter Distress”: A Womanist Ethic of Advocacy
Profile: Rev. Dr. Mitzi J. Smith
Rev. Dr. Mitzi J. Smith, Ph.D. is the J. Davison Philips Professor of New Testament, Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, GA. Prior to joining CTS, Smith taught for over thirteen years at Ashland Theological Seminary’s Detroit campus. Her latest book is Minoritized Women Reading Race and Ethnicity (co-edited with Jin Young Choi, 2020). You can learn … Continue reading Profile: Rev. Dr. Mitzi J. Smith
Mishpat as a Counter-Narrative to Nationalism
People of African descent embody a plethora of radical faith and activist traditions used to counter racial and ethnic disparities. This blog places the ethnic nationalism, espoused by the Kikuyu peasant farmers of the “Mau Mau Revolt” (1952-1960), into conversation with American nationalism today. While the revolt is known to play a pivotal role in … Continue reading Mishpat as a Counter-Narrative to Nationalism
Call for Contributions: Conversations in Race, Gender and Religion
Photo by Kaboompics .com on Pexels.com The new Research Network, Misogynoir to Mishpat, will publish a noteworthy online series entitled 'Conversations in Race, Gender and Religion'. Though there is worldwide attention focused on racial reckoning, those conversations continue to ignore the multi-sectional issues of race, gender and class are largely overlooked. We welcome contributions that … Continue reading Call for Contributions: Conversations in Race, Gender and Religion
