2024 Castañeda-Jennings Lecture
Event Details
We are pleased to welcome Dr. Xochitl Alvizo to deliver the 2024 Castañeda-Jennings Lecture! Her lecture will be entitled, “Church: A Queer, Feminist, Antiracist, Decolonial Listening to the Gospel According to Mark.”
Join us on June 4, 2024, at 7pm CST!
About the Speaker:
Xochitl Alvizo is Associate Professor of Religious Studies in the area of Women and Religion and the Philosophy of Sex, Gender, Sexuality. She has a PhD in Practical Theology from Boston University. She dedicates her work to bringing a feminist and queer focus to theology and to the study of religion and does research in congregational studies, ecclesiology, and the emerging church. She is co-founder of Feminism and Religion, an online project of feminist voices from around the world in dialogue about feminism in religion at the intersection of scholarship, activism, and community. She is co-editor of Women Religion Revolution (FSR Books, 2017) with Gina Messina, and The Emerging Church, Millennials, and Religion: Volume 2 (Cascade Books, 2022) with Terry Shoemaker and Rachel C. Schneider. She lives in Los Angeles, CA where she was also born and raised.