Feminism and Christianity

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Dr. Xochitl Alvizo talks to Dr. Néstor Medina about why embracing more expansive language in theology matters

 
Feminism and Christianity
Dr. Xochitl Alvizo and Dr. Néstor Medina
 

OP Talks opens Women’s History Month 2022 with a conversation between feminist theologian Dr. Xochitl Alvizo and Dr. Néstor Medina about why embracing more expansive language matters in theology matters. Dr. Alvizo, who identifies as Protestant, grew up in a family that was part of a Spanish-speaking Catholic church in Los Angeles. One day, a friend asked, “Why do the critiques that feminist theologians bring to our God-talk in English not also apply to your God-talk in Spanish?” The question has led Dr. Alvizo to creatively explore the gains of daring to address God in a new way.

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Xochitl Alvizo

Dr. Xochitl Alvizo teaches in the area of Women and Religion and the Philosophy of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality at California State University, Northridge. She is committed to bringing an intercultural feminist approach to theology and the study of religion. Her interests include feminist and queer theologies, congregational studies, ecclesiology, and the emerging church. Her work is inspired by the conviction that all people are inextricably connected and what we do, down to the smallest thing, matters. She makes her church home with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Dr. Alvizo is co-founder of Feminism and Religion (feminismandreligion.com) and The Pub Church, Boston. Dr. Alvizo, along with Gina Messina, is co-editor of the volume Women Religion Revolution (FSR Books, 2017).

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Néstor Medina

Dr. Néstor Medina is Assistant Professor of Religious Ethics at Emmanuel College, University of Toronto. He engages ethics from contextual, liberationist, intercultural, and post/decolonial perspectives. Dr. Medina explores the ethical implications of religious/theological debates, and how these shape concrete social structures and notions of ethnoracial and cultural identity. He also studies how lived religious experiences shape/transform people’s understandings of ethics on the ground, especially reflecting from Latina/o/x (Canadian and USA), Latin American, and Latina/o/x Pentecostal perspectives. Dr. Medina is the author of Mestizaje: (Re)Mapping ‘Race,’ Culture, and Faith in Latina/o Catholicism (Orbis, 2009), the commissioned booklet On the Doctrine of Discovery (Canadian Council of Churches, 2017), and Christianity, Empire and the Spirit (Brill, 2018).

 
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