Whittier College’s associate professor of religious studies was interviewed for the February issue of U.S. Catholic to discuss her new book, Nevertheless, We Persist: A Feminist Public Theology. The book results from many iterations of Carbine's courses about religion and politics in the U.S. as well as U.S. multicultural and multiracial women's liberation theologies. The book interprets select social justice movements from a new feminist perspective, what Carbine calls ekklesial work or community-creating practices.
“These movements wrestle with different social issues fragmenting and fracturing U.S. public life in our time, and fuse religion and politics through various practices in order to engage in and enhance worldmaking to build a public or common life that edges toward intersectional justice,” Carbine said.
Carbine started the book in 2001 and finished it during the COVID-19 pandemic. She discussed the book at the Women's Caucus in the American Academy of Religion in November, and will give another presentation about the book at the Catholic Theological Society of America in June.
"I am so jazzed to teach this book in one of my courses this spring, and to engage with students about it so that they take its insights in ever new directions," Carbine said.
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