Gretchen Mary Rehberg is the ninth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Spokane. Early life and education Rehberg was born in Pullman, Washington on July 7, 1964. Her mother, Margaret Rehberg was a homemaker and her father, Wallace Rehberg, was a professor at Washington State University. The family had a small farm outside of town. After graduating from Pullman High School in 1982, Rehberg attended Sewanee: The University of the South.
Go to ProfileCristina Rocha is a Brazilian-Australian Professor of anthropology at Western Sydney University. She works at the intersection between globalisation, migration and religion. She has written on Buddhism, New Age spirituality and most recently on pentecostalism.
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Mary Whitney Kelting
1950 - Present (74 years)
Mary Whitney Kelting is an American ethnographer and scholar of Jainism who is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Northeastern University, College of Social Sciences and Humanities
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Emilce Cuda
1965 - Present (59 years)
Emilce Cuda is an Argentine theologian, university professor, and Roman Curia official. Dubbed "the woman who knows how to read Pope Francis", she is known for interpreting the teachings of Pope Francis through the Argentine Theology of the People, political philosophers, and her own native exposure to Pope Francis’ cultural milieu.
Go to ProfileAgnes M. Brazal is a Filipina theologian, known for her work in feminist theology, a theology of migration, and cybertheology. Biography Brazal received her first degree in 1981, a BS in management engineering from Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City, Philippines. She later pursued studies in theology, first at Maryhill School of Theology in Quezon City, before completing a STL and a SThD , both from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium.
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Mary Getui
1959 - Present (65 years)
Mary Getui is a Kenyan theologian and professor of religious studies at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa. She is a founding member of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians. In 2009, Getui was named a Moran of the Burning Spear. She was appointed as chair of the National Aids Control Council of Kenya that same year.
Go to ProfileEllen K. Wondra is an American theologian. She is research professor emerita of theology and ethics at the Bexley Seabury Theological Seminary Federation. Wondra studied at Pomona College, the Church Divinity School of the Pacific and the University of Chicago Divinity School. She was formerly Editor in Chief of the Anglican Theological Review. In 2014 Wondra was elected to the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches.
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Martha L. Moore-Keish
Martha L. Moore-Keish is an American theologian ordained in the Presbyterian Church . Her work is primarily focused on Reformed theology, liturgical theology and ecumenical theology, including engagement with interfaith issues around the world. She currently engages this work as the J.B. Green Associate Professor of Theology at Columbia Theological Seminary.
Go to ProfileTeresia Mbari Hinga was a Kenyan Christian feminist theologian and a professor of religious studies at Santa Clara University in California. She was a founding member of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians.
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Hebe Charlotte Kohlbrugge
1914 - 2016 (102 years)
Hebe Charlotte Kohlbrugge was a Dutch Protestant theologian and Second World War resistance member. She was a member of the anti-Nazi Confessing Church for eleven months and assisted the reverend Günther Harder in Fehrbellin. Kohlbrugge was involved in spiritual resistance against Nazi Germany through the secret distribution of a pamphlet in the Netherlands and Switzerland during the Second World War. After the war, she worked as the secretary of the Germany Commission in the Council for Church and Government of the Dutch Reformed Church in 1947, holding responsibility for restoring ties with...
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Jean Porter
1955 - Present (69 years)
Jean Porter is an American theologian, currently the John A. O'Brien Endowed Professor of Theology at University of Notre Dame. To date, she has written "numerous articles and six books on the history of the Christian moral tradition and its contemporary relevance".
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Carole M. Cusack
1962 - Present (62 years)
Carole M. Cusack is an Australian historian of religion, specialising in Early Medieval Northwestern Europe, western esotericism, and trends in contemporary religion. Currently employed at the University of Sydney, she has published a number of books during her career.
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A. Katherine Grieb
1949 - Present (75 years)
Anne Katherine "Kathy" Grieb is an American biblical scholar and Episcopal priest. She has taught New Testament at Virginia Theological Seminary since 1994, and is currently Meade Professor in Biblical Interpretation. She previously taught at Bangor Theological Seminary in Maine.
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Judith Kaplan Eisenstein
1909 - 1996 (87 years)
Judith Eisenstein was an author, musicologist, composer, theologian and the first person to celebrate a bat mitzvah publicly in America . Life The bat mitzvah was created to address Judaism's gender imbalance and is the female equivalent of a boy's bar mitzvah, signifying entrance into religious majority. Judith, the eldest of four daughters born to Lena and Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan , was the first person to celebrate a bat mitzvah publicly in America, which she did on March 18, 1922, aged 12, at her father’s synagogue the Society for the Advancement of Judaism in New York City.
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Hilary Carey
1957 - Present (67 years)
Hilary Mary Carey, is an Australian historian whose research focused for many years on the religious history of Australia. She has been professor of imperial and religious history at the University of Bristol since 2014, where her research interests include religious missions in Canada and Greenland and missions to seamen.
Go to ProfileMaria Christina "Tina" A. Astorga is a theologian and professor at the Theology Department in University of Portland. She served as chair and Professor of Theology Department in Ateneo De Manila University.
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Erica Brown
1966 - Present (58 years)
Erica Brown is an American writer and educator who lectures widely on subjects of Jewish interest and is scholar-in-residence for the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, and a consultant to other Jewish organizations. Her "Weekly Jewish Wisdom" column has appeared regularly in The Washington Post.
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Rajula Annie Watson
1960 - Present (64 years)
Rajula Annie Watson is a Theologian who presently teaches at the Karnataka Theological College, Mangalore, a Seminary established in 1965 and affiliated to the nation's first University, the Senate of Serampore College. Annie has been a member of the Association of Theologically Trained Women of India since 1991 as well as Associate Presbyter at CSI-Hebich Memorial Church, Mangalore.
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Nancy L. deClaisse-Walford
1954 - Present (70 years)
Nancy L. deClaissé-Walford is an American theologian, specialist in the Hebrew language and Biblical studies. She is Carolyn Ward Professor of Old Testament and Biblical Languages and Advisor for the Academic Research Track at McAfee School of Theology, Mercer University, Atlanta.
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Beatriz Melano
1931 - 2004 (73 years)
Beatriz Melano was a Uruguayan, Protestant theologian from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Melano is the first known, Protestant woman in Latin America to earn a doctorate in theology. Her participation in international theological conferences established a foundation for future women and Latin American theologians. Melano's books, articles, and presentations on a wide range of theological topics contributed to Latin American feminist and liberation theology. Her influence as a theologian extended beyond Latin America to the United States and Europe. In 1994, a meeting of "Women Professors of Theolo...
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Rivka Schatz Uffenheimer
1927 - 1992 (65 years)
Rivka Schatz Uffenheimer was a Jewish scholar of Jewish mysticism. Schatz Uffenheimer was a student of Gershom Scholem. Biography Rivka Schatz-Uffenheimer was born in Poland and raised in Brazil. She received her BA, MA, and Ph.D. at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem where she was later employed as a Professor of Jewish mysticism. Her main research was in the realm of Hasidism, particularly regarding the Maggid Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezeritch' and his students. She also wrote about Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, and many other figures in modern Jewish Mysticism. She and her students collected hundreds...
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Jacqueline Lapsley
1965 - Present (59 years)
Jacqueline E. Lapsley serves as President, and Professor of Old Testament at Union Presbyterian Seminary, and served as Dean and Vice President of Academic Affairs and Professor of Old Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary . Her research interests lie in various fields, including literary theory, ethics , theological anthropology, and gender theory. These disciplines serve as valuable tools for Lapsley when approaching theological interpretations of the Old Testament.
Go to ProfileMaggi Eleanor Dawn is a British musician, author, theologian and Anglican priest. She was Principal of St Mary's College at the University of Durham, and remains a professor in the Department of Theology and Religion. Previously she was associate professor of Theology and Literature and Associate Dean of Marquand Chapel at Yale Divinity School.
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Elizabeth G. Watson
1914 - 2006 (92 years)
Elizabeth Grill Watson was an American Quaker minister, curator, and feminist theologian. Personal life Elizabeth Grill Watson was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on January 7, 1914. Watson grew up in Lakewood, Ohio. Women were not permitted to be ministers at her childhood Methodist church. However, she wanted to become a minister regardless. She graduated from Miami University in Ohio in 1936 with a Bachelor of Arts in Greek and literature. She then studied at the Chicago Theological Seminary and the University of Chicago Divinity School. There she met George H. Watson, who she married in 1937....
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Dorte Bennedsen
1938 - 2016 (78 years)
Dorte Marianne Bennedsen was a Danish theologian and politician of the Social Democrats. She served as the Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs between October 1971 and December 1973 and was the Minister of Education from January 1979 to September 1982. Bennedsen was Holmen Church's auxiliary pastor from 1965 to 1968 and was chair of the Danish Association for Nordic Collaboration between 1984 and 1999. She was a member of the Folketing from January 1975 until she stood down in November 2001.
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Nancy J. Duff
1951 - Present (73 years)
Nancy J. Duff is an American professor of theology. Duff worked as the Stephen Colwell Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at Princeton Theological Seminary, where she taught from 1990 until 2020. Duff is also a Presbyterian minister in the PCUSA denomination. She is married to United Methodist Minister David Mertz. She has taught courses on the Decalogue, Biomedical ethics, human sexuality, liturgy and the Christian life, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, James Cone, types of Christian ethics, and vocation in Christian tradition and contemporary life.
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Fulata Moyo
1990 - Present (34 years)
Fulata Lusungu Mbano Moyo is a Malawian systematic and feminist theologian who is an advocate for gender justice. Early life and education Fulata Mbano was born in northern Malawi, a member of the Ngoni people from Mzimba District. Her great grandfather, Songea, was a warrior chief. Her name, Fulata, means she was born feet first. Her father started his own church after he was not accepted in mainline churches due to his polygamy.
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R. Marie Griffith
1967 - Present (57 years)
Ruth Marie Griffith is the John C. Danforth Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis, and the former John A. Bartlett Professor at Harvard University. Griffith majored in political and social thought as an undergraduate at the University of Virginia before getting her PhD in the study of religion from Harvard University.
Go to ProfileCarol Zaleski is a scholar and writer about religion. Zaleski previously taught at Harvard University, where she received her PhD in the study of religion, and is the professor of world religions at Smith College. She is the author of several acclaimed books on religion, including Otherworld Journeys, The Life of the World to Come and, with her husband Philip Zaleski, The Book of Heaven and Prayer: A History . Also with her husband Philip she wrote in 2015 The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams which received laudatory reviews from The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Time, and the Los Angeles Times.
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Brooke Prentis
1980 - Present (44 years)
Brooke Prentis is an Australian Aboriginal Christian leader, who is descended from the Wakka Wakka people. She is the current CEO of Common Grace and coordinator of the Grasstree Gathering. Early life and education Prentis was born in Cairns on Yidinji land and grew up in Redcliffe, Queensland on the lands of the Gubbi Gubbi people. She is a descendant of the Wakka Wakka people. She attended Redcliffe State High School, graduating in 1997. She studied at The University of Queensland gaining a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Japanese and Political science.
Go to ProfileKim E. Power is an Australian academic, feminist theologian and church historian, who was a co-founder of the Golding Centre for Women's History, Theology and Spirituality at the Australian Catholic University.
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Sophie Gilliat-Ray
1969 - Present (55 years)
Sophie Gilliat-Ray, OBE FLSW is professor of Religious and Theological Studies and Director for the Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK at Cardiff University. Career Gilliat-Ray studied Religious studies and interfaith studies at the University of Wales, Lampeter, where she completed her PhD 'Perspectives on the Religious Identity of Muslims in Britain' in 1994. From 1994 until 1997 she was a research fellow in the department of sociology at the University of Warwick, and in 1998 at the University of Exeter. Since 1998 she has worked at Cardiff University, where she was promoted to professor in 2013.
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Elizabeth Livingstone
1929 - 2023 (94 years)
Elizabeth Anne Livingstone , also known as E. A. Livingstone, was an English Anglican theologian, who specialised in patristics. Life Education Livingstone held a Master of Arts degree from the University of Oxford and a Lambeth Doctorate of Divinity.
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Mia Lövheim
1968 - Present (56 years)
Mia Lövheim is a professor of the Sociology of Religion at Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden with a research specialisation in new media. After completing her doctorate in 2004 with a dissertation published as Intersecting Identities: Young People, Religion, and Interaction on the Internet, she did postdoctoral work at the Institute for Media and Communication at the University of Oslo, in Norway, pursuing the theme of her dissertation on youth self-definition on the internet, particularly in relation to girls and to religion, with a project entitled Between Postmodernity and Tradition: Y...
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Eva Hoffmann-Aleith
1910 - 2002 (92 years)
Eva Hoffmann-Aleith was a German evangelical pastor, teacher and author. As a woman pastor undertaking what was widely seen as a man's job she became a pioneer and a role model for successor generations.
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Lisa Raphals
1951 - Present (73 years)
Lisa Ann Raphals is an American professor of Chinese and comparative literature at the University of California, Riverside , and of philosophy at the National University of Singapore. She compares early China and ancient Greece. She is the author of a number of books, including Knowing Words: Wisdom and Cunning in the Classical Traditions of China and Greece and Sharing the Light: Representations of Women and Virtue in Early China, as well as a collection of poems and translations entitled What Country.
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Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
1944 - Present (80 years)
Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg is a Scottish contemporary Torah scholar and author. Biography She was born in London, England, grew up in Glasgow, Scotland, and moved to Israel in 1969, where she currently resides in Jerusalem. Zornberg's father was Rabbi Dr. Wolf Gottlieb, Rabbi at Queen's Park Synagogue, Glasgow and head of Glasgow's rabbinical court . Zornberg is a descendant of prominent rabbis from Eastern Europe. Her parents settled in Austria. Zornberg's family fled Austria after the Nazi takeover which led to the collapse of Jewish life and subsequent genocide of the Holocaust. Zornberg h...
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Verna M. Linzey
1919 - 2016 (97 years)
Verna May Linzey was an American Evangelical theologian and an ordained minister in the General Council of the Assemblies of God and the author of numerous Bibles and books. She is the chief editor of the New Tyndale Version, author of the introductions to the books of the Bible in the Modern English Version Bible , translator of the Book of Proverbs for the MEV, and she is on the faculty Advisory Board at St. Elias Seminary and Graduate School, located in Hamilton, Virginia. In 2006, The Christian Writer's Guild awarded her the "Best Non-Fiction of the Year" award for authoring The Baptism w...
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Nancy Thomson de Grummond
1940 - Present (84 years)
Nancy Thomson de Grummond is the M. Lynette Thompson Professor of Classics and Distinguished Research Professor at Florida State University. She specializes in Etruscan, Hellenistic and Roman archaeology. She serves as the director of archaeological excavations at Cetamura del Chianti in Tuscany, Italy. Her current research relates to Etruscan and Roman religion, myth and iconography.
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Madeleine Barot
1909 - 1995 (86 years)
Madeleine Barot was a French activist and theologian, who was influential in Protestant, humanist, and human rights movements. Biography Madeleine Barot was the daughter of Alexandre Auguste Barot, a literature teacher from Clermont-Ferrand, and Madeleine Kuss. From 1927 to 1934, she began her studies at Sorbonne University in Paris, where she achieved both a graduate degree in History and a diploma in library/archives. In 1934, she became an intern at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. She was then hired as a librarian at the École française de Rome, where she worked from June, 1935 to ...
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Linn Tonstad
1978 - Present (46 years)
Linn Marie Tonstad is an American theologian who serves as Associate Professor of Theology, Religion, and Sexuality at Yale Divinity School. Biography Tonstad joined the faculty at Yale Divinity School in 2012. She co-chairs the Theology and Religious Reflection unit of the American Academy of Religion and is on the steering committee of its Queer Studies in Religion unit.
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Mary McClintock Fulkerson
1950 - Present (74 years)
Mary McClintock Fulkerson is a Protestant theologian and scholar whose work explores feminist theologies and gender issues. She is currently a Professor Emerita of Theology at Duke Divinity School and an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church .
Go to ProfileAnita Monro is an Australian academic, theologian, and Uniting Church in Australia minister. She is the Principal of Grace College, one of the residential colleges of the University of Queensland, located on the St Lucia campus. She is also an Honorary Senior Fellow, in the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, at the University of Queensland.
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Chanequa Walker-Barnes
1972 - Present (52 years)
Chanequa Walker-Barnes is an American theologian and psychologist. Her research as a clinical psychologist has focused on African American health disparities, and as a womanist theologian she has written about the myth of the "StrongBlackWoman" and the need for the voices of women of color. She has written two books, Too Heavy a Yoke and I Bring the Voices of My People.
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Evangeline Anderson-Rajkumar
1963 - Present (61 years)
Evangeline Anderson-Rajkumar is a feminist activist ecumenical theologian who taught at Serampore College, Serampore the United Theological College, Bangalore, . Evangeline Anderson-Rajkumar was the first permanent woman faculty to serve as faculty in the Theology Department of the renowned Serampore College, founded by William Carey when he came to India in 1792. She was the first Lutheran Woman to serve as first Vice President of the United Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India in 2006. She comes from a family of theologians - about 17 of them, her father, all eight siblings, and seven of the eight who married into the family.
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Alla Selawry
1913 - 1992 (79 years)
Alla Selawry , was a Russian scientist, Anthroposophist, doctor, homeopath, and theologian. Biography She was born in Moscow of Russian parents Sergei Ivanovich Selavri , a Sworn Attorney assistant and Antonina Georgievna Stasenkova , and was the older sister of Dr. Oleg Selawry . Her family moved from Russia to Germany in 1922 during the Russian Civil War.
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Jofrid Wiik
1934 - 2018 (84 years)
Jofrid Wiik, née Bjorland was a Norwegian theologian and politician for the Christian Democratic Party. Hailing from Nærbø, she graduated with the cand.theol. degree from the MF Norwegian School of Theology in 1963. After working at mission and bible schools she was a faculty member at the MF Norwegian School of Theology from 1975 to 1995. She served as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from Rogaland during the term 1969–1973. She met during 7 days of parliamentary session.
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Love L. Sechrest
1962 - Present (62 years)
Love L. Sechrest is Dean of the Faculty and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Columbia Theological Seminary and was previously an associate professor of the New Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California. Her research interests include race and justice in the New Testament, African American Christianity, and womanist biblical interpretation in the New Testament. She serves on the board of directors for Faith & Learning, International, a Christian mission and social entrepreneurship business incubator.
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Bernadette Porter
1952 - Present (72 years)
Sister Dr. Bernadette Mary Porter is a British Roman Catholic nun, educator and academic administrator. She was educated at Merrow Grange Grammar School , Digby Stuart College and King's College London . She served as Vice-Chancellor, Roehampton University from 1999 to 2004, having previously held various posts at Roehampton Institute.
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