ABSTRACT
If there were an entry for “scholar-activist” in the dictionary, it would likely show a picture of Rosemary Radford Ruether. Her academic career has produced some forty-seven books, hundreds of articles and chapters, and hundreds of Master’s and doctoral students. Her publications represent some of the nest interdisciplinary scholarship on a variety of topics, including feminist theology, liberation theology, inter-religious dialogue, ecofeminism, history of women, and religion, and most recently the eects of mental disorders on familial relations. As an integral counterpart to her academic career, Ruether is also an activist. From the Freedom Rides during the civil rights movement to protesting the Iraq War, from carrying various petitions with her to American Academy of Religion meetings to community gardening at Pilgrim Place, from ghting for green institutions of higher education to taking groups of students to Palestine to help rebuild homes, Ruether consistently embodies the prophetic voice that is so characteristic of her work. is volume celebrates her life and work on her seventy-h birthday, drawing together fourteen essays by her students from GarrettEvangelical eological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois, and the Graduate eological Union, in Berkeley, California.1
