Book Review: Too Heavy a Yoke: Black Women and the Burden of Strength
Chanequa Walker-Barnes’ Too Heavy A Yoke serves both as an accessible introduction to the racism and sexism that affects the daily lives of black American
April 25, 2017
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Book Review: What Science Says About Superiority: Shattering the Myth of Race
Shattering the Myth of Race by Dave Unander is a thoughtful discussion of the conflict of race and ethnicity against the backdrop of the history
April 21, 2017
Book Review: Nicola Hoggard Creegan and Christine D. Pohl’s Living on the Boundaries
In 2006, some senior women faculty at Calvin College were inspired by the film Calendar Girls, a lightly fictionalized account of an improbable fundraising device
April 18, 2017
Book Review: Cultural of Analysis: Slaves, Women, and Homosexuals
William J. Webb’s Slaves, Women and Homosexuals is a hermeneutical tour de force. Webb severs ties with traditional hermeneutical textbooks by offering intra-scriptural and extrascriptural
April 18, 2017
Book Review: Shattering Our Assumptions
Shattering Our Assumptions began as a research project carried out by Miriam Neff, who surveyed 1,200 Christian women in diverse churches across the country. The
April 18, 2017
Jesus and the Feminists: Who Do They Say That He Is?
Note: CBE does NOT recommend this book. Publisher’s Description: This resource provides a detailed survey and critique of various feminist interpretations of Jesus and offers a
April 17, 2017
Book Review: Evangelicalism: The Coming Generation
Biblical feminists will be interested in a chapter co-authored by Helen V. Stehlin which appears in James Davison Hunter’s new book (1987) Evangelicalism: The Coming
April 17, 2017
Book Review: Evangelical Identity and Gendered Family Life
Evangelical Identity and Gendered Family Life, by Oregon State University sociology professor Sally K. Gallagher, is a detailed study of evangelical attitudes toward gender and
April 12, 2017
Book Review: How Religious Women View Feminism: God Gave Us the Right
In this carefully done ethnographic study, religion professor Christel Manning offers an intriguing assessment of the lives and beliefs of women in conservative religious traditions
April 12, 2017
Book Review: God’s Daughters: Evangelical Women and the Power of Submission
God’s Daughters is an ethnographic analysis of Women’s Aglow Fellowship, a 30-year-old women’s organization that originally developed out of the Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship
April 12, 2017