Bernadette Brooten
Bernadette Brooten | |
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Education | University of Portland Harvard University |
Awards | MacArthur Fellowship |
Academic career | |
Discipline | Religious scholar |
Institutions | Claremont Graduate University University of Tübingen Harvard Divinity School Brandeis University |
Main interests | New Testament, feminism |
Bernadette J. Brooten is an American religious scholar and Kraft-Hiatt Professor of Christian Studies at Brandeis University.[1]
Biography
[edit]Brooten graduated from University of Portland with a B.A., and Harvard University with a Ph.D. in 1982.[2][3] Her doctoral thesis was entitled Inscriptional Evidence for Women as Leaders in the Ancient Synagogue.[4] Brooten studied theology at the University of Tübingen and at Hebrew University.[5] She taught at the Claremont Graduate School,[6] the University of Tübingen,[2] Harvard Divinity School,[7] and the University of Oslo with a 1998 Fulbright Fellowship.[3] She served on the Advisory Committee for the Women's Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School from 1997 to 2008.[3] She is also a linguist with eight languages besides English to her credit.[5]
Brooten is the founder and director of the Feminist Sexual Ethics Project at Brandeis.[8] The project aims to create Jewish, Christian, and Muslim sexual ethics rooted in freedom, mutuality, meaningful consent, responsibility, and female (as well as male) pleasure, untainted by slave-holding values. These religions' sacred texts and traditions have all tolerated slavery, which has frequently involved the sexual exploitation of women and girls. Brooten heads a team of scholars, activists, artists, and policy analysts who are disentangling the nexus of slavery, religion, women, and sexuality. They aim to help religious and other people complete the abolition of slavery and move beyond harmful racial and sexual stereotypes.[9]
Her work is located primarily within the New Testament, post-biblical Judaism, early literature and history, women and religion, and feminist sexual ethics (with a particular focus on law and sexuality).[3][8]
She is currently[as of?] writing a book on early Christian women who were enslaved or who owned enslaved laborers.[citation needed]
Awards
[edit]- 1998 MacArthur Fellows Program[10]
- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
Selected works
[edit]- "The modern face of slavery", The Boston Globe, November 19, 2006[11]
- Beyond Slavery: Overcoming Its Religious and Sexual Legacies, Palgrave-MacMillan, 2010, ISBN 978-0-230-10017-6
- Women Leaders in The Ancient Synagogue: Inscriptional Evidence and Background Issues, Scholars Press, 1982, ISBN 978-0-89130-587-3
- Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism, University of Chicago Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0-226-07592-1[12]
- "Female Homoeroticism", Immaculate & powerful: the female in sacred image and social reality, Editors Clarissa W. Atkinson, Constance H. Buchanan, Margaret Ruth Miles, Beacon Press, 1985, ISBN 978-0-8070-1004-4
- "Acts of the Apostles", Women priests: a Catholic commentary on the Vatican declaration, Editors Leonard J. Swidler, Arlene Swidler, Paulist Press, 1977, ISBN 978-0-8091-2062-8
- Frauen in der Männerkirche, Editors Bernadette Brooten, Norbert Greinacher, Kaiser, 1982, ISBN 978-3-459-01424-8
References
[edit]- ^ Barlow, Rich (August 6, 2005). "Caucus On Religion Thumbs The Past". City & Region. The Boston Globe. p. B2.
- ^ a b Standhartinger, Angela (September 2022). "The Influence and Impact of Bernadette Brooten Not Only on LGBTIQ+ People in Germany". Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion. 38 (2): 183–189. doi:10.2979/jfemistudreli.38.2.16. S2CID 253082036.
- ^ a b c d Carll, Johanna (December 2023). "Papers of Bernadette J. Brooten, 1966-1985". Harvard Library.
- ^ Brooten, Bernadette J. (1982). Inscriptional Evidence for Women as Leaders in the Ancient Synagogue (PhD thesis). Harvard University. Retrieved February 29, 2024.
- ^ a b Moore, Lillian (March 24, 1978). "Idahoan Remembers Guns In Lebanon". Spokane Daily Chronicle. p. 3.
- ^ Dart, John (March 28, 1981). "Ancient Synagogue Studies Question Status of Women". Los Angeles Times. p. 31.
- ^ Dart, John (February 2, 1991). "Apostle's Sexuality Debated". The Charlotte Observer. Los Angeles Times. p. 2A.
- ^ a b Ramos, Nestor (February 24, 2019). "Patriots Owner Silent Amid Questions". The Boston Globe. pp. B1, B6.
- ^ "Our Mission". The Feminist Sexual Ethics Project.
- ^ "Poets, Advocates and Other Gensiuses". The Albuquerque Tribune. June 4, 1998. p. B6.
- ^ Brooten, Bernadette (November 19, 2006). "The Modern Face Of Slavery". Op-Ed. Boston.com. Archived from the original on December 11, 2020.
- ^ Brooten, Bernadette J. (November 1, 1998). Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-07592-1.