Britain & Ireland School of Feminist Theology
BISFT
Summer School
BISFT has run bi-annual Summer Schools since 1992, the first being held at St David’s College, Lampeter under the title ‘Women and God / Merched a Dduw’.
1994 - Changing Perceptions
1996 - Being Women - Ways of Knowing
1998 - Facing the Boundaries of Difference
2000 - Dreams for a New Millennium
2002 - Crossing the Lines for Justice
2004 - Embracing Diversity: Seeking Harmony
2006 - What’s God got to do with it? - Politics, Economics, Theology
2008 - Women, Religion and Violence
2012 - Feminist Futures in Troubled Times
2014 - Women: Alternate Economic & Political Visions
2016 - Towards Abundant Life in the 21ST Century: Feminist Reflections
The next BISFT Summer School will be in July 2020.
The Summer Schools aim to provide a platform for women to share ideas and empower one another in the dissemination of these ideas. With a full range of lectures, workshops and informal discussion groups there is space for everyone to find a voice.
The Summer Schools have proved valuable not only for the sharing of ideas but for international networking, participants have come from Canada, New Zealand, Taiwan, Japan, India and many parts of Europe and the USA.
Past Keynote speakers have included Rosemary Radford-Ruether, Elizabeth Stuart, Daphne Hampson, Monica Furlong. Kwok Pui-Lan, Musimbi Kanyoro, Marcella Athaus-Reid, Asphodel Long, Melissa Raphael and Mary Grey amongst others.
All Summer School papers are published in Feminist Theology the journal of BISFT - they appear in the May edition of the year following the Summer School. Past editions of the journal can be obtained via Orca Journals, Stanley House, 3 Fleets Lane, Poole, Dorset BH15 3AJ.
Tel: +44 (0) 1202 785 712 Fax: +44 (0) 1202 666 219 mail: journals@orcabookservices.co.uk
1994 - Changing Perceptions
1996 - Being Women - Ways of Knowing
1998 - Facing the Boundaries of Difference
2000 - Dreams for a New Millennium
2002 - Crossing the Lines for Justice
2004 - Embracing Diversity: Seeking Harmony
2006 - What’s God got to do with it? - Politics, Economics, Theology
2008 - Women, Religion and Violence
2012 - Feminist Futures in Troubled Times
2014 - Women: Alternate Economic & Political Visions
2016 - Towards Abundant Life in the 21ST Century: Feminist Reflections
The next BISFT Summer School will be in July 2020.
The Summer Schools aim to provide a platform for women to share ideas and empower one another in the dissemination of these ideas. With a full range of lectures, workshops and informal discussion groups there is space for everyone to find a voice.
The Summer Schools have proved valuable not only for the sharing of ideas but for international networking, participants have come from Canada, New Zealand, Taiwan, Japan, India and many parts of Europe and the USA.
Past Keynote speakers have included Rosemary Radford-Ruether, Elizabeth Stuart, Daphne Hampson, Monica Furlong. Kwok Pui-Lan, Musimbi Kanyoro, Marcella Athaus-Reid, Asphodel Long, Melissa Raphael and Mary Grey amongst others.
All Summer School papers are published in Feminist Theology the journal of BISFT - they appear in the May edition of the year following the Summer School. Past editions of the journal can be obtained via Orca Journals, Stanley House, 3 Fleets Lane, Poole, Dorset BH15 3AJ.
Tel: +44 (0) 1202 785 712 Fax: +44 (0) 1202 666 219 mail: journals@orcabookservices.co.uk
