Faculty Profile

Dr. Judith Plaskow Professor of Religious Studies

Education:

• B.A., Clark University
• M.Phil., Yale University
• Ph.D., Yale University

Research and Scholarly Interests:

Contemporary Religious Thought with a specialization in feminist theology.

Publications:

Dr. Plaskow is the author three books, Sex, Sin and Grace: Women's Experience and the Theologies of Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich (1980) and Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective (1990) and The Coming of Lilth:  Essays on Feminism, Judaism, and Sexual Ethics 1972-2003 (2005).  She has also co-edited three other volumes: Women and Religion (1973), Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion (1979), and Weaving the Visions: New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality (1989). She has published numerous articles in edited volumes and journals.   She is currently at work on a project on embodiment, elimination, and the role of toilets in struggles for social justice.

Scholarly Activities:

Dr. Plaskow has lectured widely on feminist theology in the United States and Europe.  She co-founded The Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion and co-edited it for its first ten years. She is Past President of the American Academy of Religion.

Courses Taught/Teaching:

• RELS 110: Nature and Experience of Religion
• RELS 346: Judaism
• RELS 400: God and Evil
• RELS 436: Theologies of Liberation
• RELS 441: Sexuality and the Sacred
• RELS 446: Women in Western Religion
• RELS 470: Seminar: Buber and Heschel
• RELS 470: Seminar: Creating a Personal Theology
• LLRN 102: Global Origins of U.S. Society

Contact Information:

• Telephone: (718) 862-7123
• Office: Miguel 429
• Fax: (718) 862-8044
• e-mail: judith.plaskow@manhattan.edu

Page last updated by K. Balaj on August 26, 2008