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Download "Womanpriest" for free as an eBook from Fordham Press here: https://www.fordhampress.com/9780823288298/womanpriest/ Jill M. Peterfeso is Associate Professor in the Religious Studies Department at Guilford College. She is a cultural historian of American religion whose published scholarship focuses on gender and sexuality, resistance to authority, and social justice, specifically in Roman Catholicism and Mormonism. While some Catholics and even non-Catholics today are asking if priests are necessary, especially given the ongoing sex-abuse scandal, The Roman Catholic Womanpriests (RCWP) looks to reframe and reform Roman Catholic priesthood, starting with ordained women. Womanpriest is the first academic study of the RCWP movement. As an ethnography, Womanpriest analyzes the womenpriests’ actions and lived theologies in order to explore ongoing tensions in Roman Catholicism around gender and sexuality, priestly authority, and religious change. In order to understand how womenpriests navigate tradition and transgression, this study situates RCWP within post–Vatican II Catholicism, apostolic succession, sacraments, ministerial action, and questions of embodiment. Womanpriest reveals RCWP to be a discrete religious movement in a distinct religious moment, with a small group of tenacious women defying the Catholic patriarchy, taking on the priestly role, and demanding reconsideration of Roman Catholic tradition. Doing so, the women inhabit and re-create the central tensions in Catholicism today.  

Dr. Shaily Patel is Assistant Professor of Early Christianity at Virginia Tech. She is an expert on ancient magic, early Christian literature, and ideological criticisms of the New Testament. She is currently writing a book about the ways in which early Christian writings featuring Simon Peter are caught between two simultaneous but opposing cultural trends: the allure of “magic” in the Roman imagination and the categorial vilifying of magicians among ancient writers. In her wider work, she is concerned with the problem of representation in historical accounts, especially the representation of groups and ideas that challenge established “orthodoxy.”  Follow Dr. Shaily Patel on Twitter: https://twitter.com/vox_magica Visit Sacred Writes: https://www.sacred-writes.org/

Swati Chawla is assistant professor at the Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities, O.P. Jindal Global University and a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Virginia. Her doctoral research is focused on migration, citizenship-making, and contemporary Buddhisms in the Himalayan regions of postcolonial South Asia. Her masters and M.Phil. work focused on the Tibetan Buddhist female monastic tradition in exile. She hosts the Twitter channel #himalayanhistories. Follow Swati Chawla on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChawlaSwati Visit Sacred Writes: https://www.sacred-writes.org/

Dr. Constance Kassor is an assistant professor of religious studies at Lawrence University, where she teaches courses on Buddhist thought and Asian religious traditions. Her research focuses on Tibetan Buddhist philosophy, and she is currently involved in several projects related to the Madhyamaka philosophy of the 15th-century thinker, Gorampa Sonam Senge. She is also interested in religion and comics, women and gender minorities in Buddhism, pedagogy, and digital humanities.

Sarah F. Porter (she/her/hers) is a Ph.D candidate in the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University with a concentration in New Testament / Early Christianity and a secondary field in archaeology. She holds an M.Div. from Vanderbilt University Divinity School with a certificate in gender, sexuality, and religion, and she earned her B.A. in English and Religion from Southwestern University. Currently, she is a William R. Tyler Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. Her dissertation, “Early Christian Deathscapes,” examines the production and flow of affects through the martyria, cemeteries, and homilies of fourth-century Antioch (modern-day Antakya, Turkey). Follow Sarah Porter on Twitter: https://twitter.com/portersf Visit Sacred Writes online: https://www.sacred-writes.org/

Ericka Shawndricka Dunbar (she/her/hers) is an adjunct professor at Spelman College (Atlanta, GA) in the Religious Studies Department. She received her Ph.D. in Biblical Studies (Old Testament) in May 2020 from Drew University. Her dissertation is interdisciplinary and focused on how the discipline of biblical studies is increasingly responsive to social issues, namely, sexual trafficking.  Dunbar’s dissertation, entitled “Trafficking Hadassah: An Africana Reading of Collective Trauma, Memory, and Identity in the Book of Esther and the African Diaspora,” is a dialogical cultural study of sexual trafficking in the book of Esther and during the Transatlantic Slave Trade. She assesses sexual trafficking in both contexts, evaluates the traumatic impact of trafficking on Africana collective identity, and examines and critiques ideologies and stereotypes that were espoused to justify sexual abuse against Africana girls and women.   Follow Sacred Writes on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Sacred_Writes Visit Sacred Writes online: https://www.sacred-writes.org/ Follow Classical Ideas on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Classical_Ideas

Suzanna Krivulskaya (she/her/hers) is Assistant Professor of History at California State University San Marcos, where she teaches courses in U.S. and digital history. She received her Ph.D. in history from the University of Notre Dame. She specializes in modern U.S. history and studies the relationship between sexuality and religion. Her current book project, tentatively titled Disgraced: How Sex Scandals Transformed American Protestantism, investigates how pastoral sex scandals have been covered in the popular press and how Protestant denominations and the reading public responded to the coverage. Her articles have been published by the Journal of American Studies, Current Research in Digital History, and the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Her chapter on fundamentalist sex and sexuality is forthcoming from the Oxford Handbook of Christian Fundamentalism. She has published in popular outlets like Religion Dispatches and Religion in American History, and the Revealer. She is also the recipient of the 2019-2020 LGBTQ Religious History Award from the LGBTQ Religious Archives Network. Follow Dr. Suzanna Krivulskaya on Twitter: https://twitter.com/suzzzanna Follow Classical Ideas on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Classical_Ideas Follow Sacred Writes on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Sacred_Writes Visit Sacred Writes: https://www.sacred-writes.org/  

Dr. Lynne Gerber (she/her/hers) is an independent scholar. She is the author of Seeking the Straight and Narrow: Weight Loss and Sexual-Reorientation in Evangelical America (Chicago, 2011). She is currently working on a history of religion and HIV/AIDS in San Francisco. Read: "FOR CLERGY WHO MINISTERED THROUGH THE AIDS CRISIS COVID IS BOTH EERILY FAMILIAR AND PUZZLINGLY DIFFERENT" https://religiondispatches.org/for-clergy-who-ministered-through-the-aids-crisis-covid-is-both-eerily-familiar-and-puzzlingly-different/ Listen: Dr. Lynne Gerber on "Sexing History" Podcast:  https://www.sexinghistory.com/episode-7/

Abel R. Gómez (he/him/his) is a Ph.D. candidate in the Religion Department and earned a Certificate of Advanced Studies from the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at Syracuse University. His research focuses on sacred sites, ritual, and decolonization in the context of contemporary Indigenous religions. Abel is currently completing his dissertation, an ethnography of sacred sites protection movements among the Ohlone peoples of the San Francisco and Monterey regions. He is a steering committee member for the Native Traditions in the Americas Unit of the American Academy of Religion and recently served on the committee organizing the annual Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits Powwow in San Francisco. He earned a B.A. in philosophy and religion from San Francisco State University and an M.A. in religious studies from the University of Missouri. In our conversation, we discuss his dissertation “Sacred Sites, Ceremony, and Belonging in Ohlone Territory: A Case Study of Indigenous Survival,” the Spanish colonial history of California, the mission system, Junipero Serra, and the conversions, terror, and trauma of indigenous people in the region.  Read: Statues topple and a Catholic church burns as California reckons with its Spanish colonial past You can follow Abel on Twitter https://www.twitter.com/jaratura You can follow Sacred Writes on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Sacred_Writes Visit Sacred Writes online: https://www.sacred-writes.org/

Ambre Dromgoole (she/her/hers) is a doctoral candidate in the Departments of Religious Studies and African American Studies at Yale University. She graduated from Oberlin College & Conservatory in 2015 with a B.A. in Musical Studies and Religion, where she received the Jonathon Kneeland Prize for Religion and the Africana Studies Award for Artistic Excellence and Community Service upon graduation. She then obtained an M.A. in Religion from Yale Divinity School and Institute of Sacred Music with a concentration in Black Religion and the Arts receiving the Hugh Porter Prize of Distinction. Ambre is interested in the convergence of Black religion and popular culture, focusing on the emergence of various musical genres from women in the Black Holiness-Pentecostal tradition. Read "What Breonna Taylor and Sister Rosetta Tharpe Taught Me About Black Women and Friendship" https://therevealer.org/what-breonna-taylor-and-sister-rosetta-tharpe-taught-me-about-black-women-and-friendship/ Follow Ambre Dromgoole on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ambrelynae Visit Ambre Dromgoole's website: https://www.ambredromgoole.com/ Visit Sacred Writes: https://www.sacred-writes.org/ Follow Sacred Writes on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Sacred_Writes

Mark Van Buren is a Mindful Living Trainer, yoga/meditation instructor, personal trainer, and musician, that has been promoting health and wellness for years. He runs workshops and retreats around the New York City and New Jersey regions.  Mark’s first book is A Fool's Guide to Actual Happiness and Your Life IS Meditation - Wisdom Publications (which we spoke about on episode 75), and his new book is “Your Life is Meditation,” the topic of this conversation. It was fabulous to have Mark back on the show. If you want to find Mark, you can visit him at authormarkvanburen.com

Gary Gach is the author of Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Buddhism.  Follow Gary Gach's work online at: https://linktr.ee/GaryGach Follow Classical Ideas on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/Classical_Ideas

Dr. Susannah Crockford is Crockford, an anthropologist with interests in spirituality, politics, ecology, economics, and survivalism. Follow Dr. Crockford on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/SusCrockford Pre-order Ripples in the Universe https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo86433786.html#.X72d5XtXTuE.twitter    

Dr. Donovan Schaefer is an assistant professor in the Religious Studies Department at the University of Pennsylvania. Schaefer is the author of Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution, and Power. Dr. Brian Carwana is the Executive Director of Encounter World Religions. Brian has a PhD in religion and politics from the University of Toronto. You can visit him online here: https://religionsgeek.com/

Megan Goodwin, PhD, is Program Director for Sacred Writes, a Luce-funded project promoting public scholarship on religion hosted by Northeastern University. Her first book, Abusing Religion: Literary Persecutions, Sex Scandals, and American Minority Religions is available through Rutgers. Visit Dr. Megan Goodwin's website here Visit (and listen to) Keeping it 101: https://keepingit101.com/

Dr. Maia Kotrosits is assistant professor of religion at Denison University and is the author of the book “The Lives of Objects.”  Follow Dr. Maia Kotrosits on Twitter: https://twitter.com/maiakotro

Dr. David Newheiser is a research fellow in the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at Australian Catholic University. His first book, Hope in a Secular Age (CUP, 2019), argues that an uncertain hope is required to sustain commitment of any kind: personal, political, or religious. Follow David Newheiser on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dnewheiser Visit his website: https://dnewheiser.net/

Joe Drape is an award-winning sportswriter for the New York Times. He is the author of six books, including the New York Times bestsellers Our Boys: A Perfect Season on the Plains with the Smith Center Redmen and American Pharoah: The Untold Story of the Triple Crown Winner’s Legendary Rise. His book Black Maestro was the inaugural winner of the Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award. A native of Kansas City and graduate of Rockhurst High School, Drape earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Southern Methodist University.  Support Classical Ideas: https://linktr.ee/Classicalideas Visit Joe Drape on Twitter: https://twitter.com/joedrape

Andrea Miller is an editor at Lion’s Roar magazine and is the author of "Awakening My Heart: Essays, Articles and Interviews on the Buddhist Life," out now from Pottersfield Press.  Buy the book: https://www.amazon.com/Awakening-Heart-Articles-Interviews-Buddhist/dp/1988286883/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Andrea+miller+awakening+my+heart&qid=1607819477&sr=8-1 Classical Ideas Linktree: https://linktr.ee/Classicalideas

Karim Amin is an Educator and Arts Activist from West Baltimore. Karim is currently a graduate degree candidate pursuing a Masters in Public Administration at the University of Baltimore. Karim was a charter member of Black Arts district coalition, the committee responsible for establishing  the Pennsylvania Avenue Black Arts district, the first Black Arts district in Maryland. Karim currently is the executive director Voices of 21217, a youth based nonprofit  focused on  developing arts programming and  funding to bring mixed used development to the Pennsylvania Avenue Black Arts district located in West Baltimore. You can visit Karim’s website at voicesof21217.com to get in touch. Support Classical Ideas: https://linktr.ee/classicalideas