22/05/2024 14:15 - 16:30

HALL: FATESI - DI GIOVANNI

Proponent: Jonescu P.

Chair: Jonescu P.

Speaker: Jonescu P., Krebs A., Ott T.J., Zapita P.

Feminist Epistemologies not only critique but shift the paradigms framing our theologies. While Feminist thought initially critiqued how gender influences our knowledge; today, it also reimagines our theologies. This panel seeks to expand the collaboration between Feminist Epistemologies and theology.


As the second word of this proposal says, there is not only one feminist epistemology but many. In the wake of 2nd Wave Feminism, which highlights the importance of recognizing gender and social location, we now have come to recognize the many Feminist Epistemologies in the world (e.g. Womanist, Asian-feminist, Mujerista, African-feminist, Disability and feminism, Queer, etc.). Although some criticize Feminist thought in theology as being too particular, this panel recognizes this particularity as a strength for exploring universal concepts (evil, divinity, humanity, etc.). While these various Epistemologies bear rightful critiques of current and past theology, they also contain new standpoints from where we can re-discuss and re-imagine our theology. Papers for this panel will explore theology through these Feminist Epistemologies, either placing different viewpoints together or from a singular approach.