JMT Newsletter - May 2023
Welcome
to the May 2023 Journal of Moral Theology Newsletter.
Traditionally in the Catholic Church, May is a Marian month. There are liturgical, political, and seasonal reasons for the development of this tradition that originated in the 13th century. May is also spring in the Northern hemisphere and in the week of this newsletter (May 21 to 28) is the Laudato Si’ week, declared by Pope Francis. It always calls my attention to the fact that many indigenous communities in Latin America identify the Earth as a mother, called by the Andean peoples, for example, Pachamama, that is, Mother-Earth. As a Latino with a strong devotion to Mary, I see a deep connection between of these two mothers who care for us spiritually and humanely. May Mother Mary strengthen us to care for Mother-Earth so spring can always come with hope, joy, and beauty.
This month’s highlights: (1) the April 2023 issue on Intersectional Methods and Moral Theology; (2); Global Theological Ethics books are available in hard copy; & (3) call for book reviewers.
April 2023 Issue
Intersectionality explores a theme—human suffering—that many theologians have found worthy of sustained treatment in our tradition and uses theoretical and analytical tools to understand better the phenomena of human suffering in order to foster positive social change. Intersectional methods in theological ethics have explanatory power for many researchers who see how unjust social structures impede human flourishing, but the realities of these injustices are experienced differently depending on one’s positionality. This special issue on intersectionality is needed because bad theology kills.
Meghan J. Clark, Anna Kasafi Perkins, and Emily Reimer-Barry, Co-Editors of the Issue on Intersectional Methods and Moral Theology
Introduction to the Special Issue, by Meghan Clark, Anna Kasafi Perkins, and Emily Reimer-Barry
Cartographies in the Wilderness: A Decolonial Theological Reflection on Intersectionality, by Rufus Burnett, Jr.
An Interdisciplinary Theological Method from the Knowledge of the Forgotten, by Alexandre A. Martins
The Case for Intersectional Theology: An Asian American Catholic Perspective, by Hoon Choi
Enfleshing the Work of Social Production: Gender, Race, and Agency, by Kristin E. Heyer
Intersectionality at the Heart of Oppression and Violence against Women in Law: Case Studies from India, by Julie George, SSpS
Intersectionality and Orthodox Theology: Searching for Spandrels, by Rachel Contos
Black Feminism, Womanism, and Intersectionality Discourse: A Theo-Ethical Roundtable, by jennifer s. leath, Nontando Hadebe, Nicole Symmonds, and Anna Kasafi Perkins
Global Theological Ethics Book Series
The two most recent volumes of the Global Theological Ethics Book Series, a partnership with the CTEWC (Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church), are now available in hardcopy. They are A Prophet to the Peoples: Paul Farmer’s Witness and Theological Ethics edited by Jennie Weiss Block, M. Therese Lysaught, and Alexandre A. Martins and Doing Theology and Theological Ethics in the Face of the Abuse Crisis edited by Daniel J. Fleming, James F. Keenan, SJ, and Hans Zollner, SJ. Hard copies are produced by our partners at Wipf and Stock Publishers.
The other volumes of the Global Theological Ethics Book Series are also available here (online) or on the Wipf and Stock website (hard copy).
Catholic Moral Theology Blog
The JMT and the Catholic Moral Theology Blog (CMT) invite our readers to submit a commentary (in a free style of a blog post with no more than 800 words) for the CMT on one of the JMT articles that can be found here for free download. Submit your commentary for the CMT blog to Jana Bennett (jbennett2@udayton.edu) or David Cloutier (cloutierd@cua.edu), blog editors of the CMT. Or contact us for questions.
Also, check out the CMT blog project in collaboration with the editors of the Special Issue on Intersectional Methods and Moral Theology. They invited theologians around the world to respond to each article in the issue. Check the posts out:
Rico Monge Responds to Rachel Contos’s “Intersectionality and Orthodox Theology: Searching for Spandrels,” May 22, 2023
A Response to Rufus Burnett’s “Cartographies in the Wilderness: A Decolonial Reflection on Intersectionality” by Kyle Brooks, May 12, 2023
Intersectional Analysis as a Theological Method: A Response to Hoon Choi, by Matthew Shadle, May 09, 2023
Call for Papers
§ We also invite you to submit your article for consideration for our open issues in 2024.
Book Reviews
The Journal of Moral Theology is always looking for people to review books. If interested, please email Mari Rapela Heidt (mrapelaheidt@ndm.edu) or Kate Ward (katharine.ward@marquette.edu). Right now, we are looking for reviewers for:
Bernard G. Prusak and Jennifer Reed-Bouley, eds. Catholic Higher Education and Catholic Social Thought (Paulist, 2023)
Christopher Kellerman, All Oppression Shall Cease: A History of Slavery, Abolitionism, and the Catholic Church (Orbis, 2022)
D. Glenn Butner, Jesus the Refugee: Ancient Injustice and Modern Solidarity (Fortress, 2023)
Emanuel Katongole, Who Are My People?: Love, Violence, and Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa (UND, 2022)
Emily Dumler-Winckler, Modern Virtue: Mary Wollstonecraft and a Tradition of Dissent (OUP, 2022)
Erin Brigham and Mary Johnson, SNDdeN, eds. Women Engaging the Catholic Social Tradition: Solidarity toward the Common Good (Paulist, 2022)
Karen Guth, The Ethics of Tainted Legacies: Human Flourishing after Traumatic Pasts (Cambridge, 2022)
Lorraine Cuddeback-Gedeon, The Work of Inclusion: An Ethnography of Grace, Sin, and Intellectual Disabilities (T&T Clark, 2023)
Lucas Briola, The Eucharistic Vision of Laudato Si': Praise, Conversion, and Integral Ecology (CUA, 2023)
Stewart Clem, Lying and Truthfulness: A Thomistic Perspective (CUP, 2023)
If you would like to review one of these books (500-700 words) please contact the book review editors, Mari Rapela Heidt (mrapelaheidt@ndm.edu) and Kate Ward (katharine.ward@marquette.edu). Please let us know which book you would like, whether you'd prefer electronic or hard copy and where your
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