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Nevertheless, We Persist elaborates an innovative feminist theological approach to the public church and to the praxis of public theology as ekklesial work. Carbine constructs and then applies this approach to identify and interpret theological claims and practices of public engagement that have been exemplified by Christian social justice leaders and movements. She draws on major figures in feminist and womanist theologies to examine the rich diversity of historical and contemporary faith-based movements such as the Catholic Worker, the Civil Rights Movement, United Farm Workers, and The Plowshares Movement. Each chapter ends with a contemporary social movement that continues and radicalizes a part of an earlier movement with attention to multi-faith approaches that address increasing fractures of US public life in our time.
Rosemary P. Carbine is associate professor of religious studies, Whittier College, CA. She holds master’s and doctoral degrees in theology from the University of Chicago Divinity School, is a former co-chair of the Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Unit of the American Academy of Religion and is former convener of Theological Anthropology and the Women’s Consultation in Constructive Theology, Catholic Theological Society of America (CTSA). Currently, Carbine is an editorial team member and edits the Winter issue of the international journal Critical Theology and convenes the Public Theology Interest Group in the CTSA.
