Solidarity and Power

Feminist Approaches to Religious Ethics

Rosemary Kellison, Shannon Dunn

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Rowman & Littlefield
26 June 2025

Comparative religion; Religious ethics; Feminism & feminist theory

Series: Religion in the Modern World

This integrated and cohesive volume illuminates the dynamic voices of a diverse group of contemporary feminist scholars from a wide range of religious traditions to demonstrate the value and necessity of feminist contributions to the field of ethics. Contributors explore questions and debates that have long perplexed religious ethicists, such as the relationship between descriptive (“how do we act?”) and normative (“how should we act?”) inquiry, and how those can be productively addressed by drawing on resources from feminist work. In addition to contributing directly to these scholarly conversations, the book highlights a number of case studies from different religious communities on a wide range of moral issues to actively demonstrate the ways in which feminist approaches enhance religious ethics’ contribution to religious studies, support the decolonization of religious ethics, and provide resources for innovative responses to these contemporary questions and debates.

The themes of solidarity and power and the connecting threads throughout the volume. Historically, solidarity has been an essential aspect of justice-oriented political projects like feminism, among other historical movements. But feminists’ critical attention to power and difference—including attention to who is allowed to speak for/with particular communities—simultaneously raises significant questions regarding the possibility of genuine solidarity. While religious ethicists have traditionally considered normative work, including work focused on building solidarity to address historical injustices, to be a central aspect of the field of religious ethics, other scholars of religion have questioned whether scholarly attempts to forge solidarity and promote justice are themselves inevitably exercises of colonial power and control. The book explores the tensions and debates that arise from these considerations, ultimately suggesting that a feminist ethical approach enables scholarship that accounts for all of these concerns.

Exploring such critical issues as abortion, poverty, the carceral state, war, sexual violence and abuse, race, and social justice movements, among others, this volume provides accessible entry points for advanced undergraduates to contemplate the unique contributions of feminist and womanist scholarship. In addition, scholars and graduate students and researchers will benefit not only from the book’s diverse set of examples, but from the contributors’ commitment to intervening in ongoing methodological and theoretical debates that continue to challenge thinkers in both religious ethics and the larger field of religious studies.

Edited by: Rosemary Kellison, Shannon Dunn
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781538187586
ISBN 10: 1538187582
Series: Religion in the Modern World
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 26 June 2025
Recommended Age: From 18 to 80 years
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product

Rosemary Kellison is associate professor of religion at Florida State University and the author of Expanding Responsibility for the Just War: A Feminist Critique (2019). Shannon Dunn is professor of religious studies at Gonzaga University has most recently published essays in Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and the Journal of Religious Ethics.