ABSTRACT
Feminist thought in the discipline of religious studies is developing a new model for describing the relationship between religion and other aspects of life, including politics. As feminist scholarship has developed, methodological approaches that integrate the religious and the political have become predominant. Since the balance of current feminist thought holds that the political and the religious are, in one way or another, closely related, feminist theologians would be expected to comment upon the political scene. More written scholarship has come from the reformist theologians than from the revolutionaries, and thus there is greater representation of reformers in the sample. An investigation of three contemporary political issues--the struggle for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, interest in the development of more ecologically sound lifestyles, and concern over the threat of a nuclear holocaust--provides a concrete case study of how well practice embodies theory.
