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| Kathleen
Sands, Associate Professor |
Kathleen
Sands was educated at Harvard Divinity School (M.T.S.)
and Boston  College
(Ph.D.). She previously taught at the University of Massachusetts
in Boston, where she directed the Religious Studies program and
was jointly appointed in American Studies and Women’s Studies.
Professor
Sands’ areas of specialization include: religion in America,
religion and law, women in religion, Christian history, and theory
of religion. She is author of Escape From Paradise: Evil and
Tragedy in Feminist Theology, and editor of God Forbid:
Religion and Sex in American Public Life. Her published articles
have appeared in New Literary History, The Journal of
Theology and Culture, The Journal of the American Academy
of Religion, The Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion,
and in several anthologies and encyclopedias. They cover a wide
range of topics, including humor (“If, Ands, and Butts”),
tragedy (“Feminist and Theology in the Time After Time”),
sexuality (“Homosexuality, Religion and the Law,”
“Sexual Dissent,” “Sex and Eros in Feminist
Theology”), Native American rights (“A Property of
Peculiar Value: Land, Religion and the Constitution”), women
and religion in the U.S. (“Feminisms and Secularisms in
the U.S.), pedagogy “Coming Out and Leading Out”),
and even an occasional foray into film (“Still Dreaming
of a White Christmas: War, Memory, and Nostalgia in the American
Christmas).
Professor
Sands has served on the Board of Directors of the American Academy
of Religion, and the editorial board of The Journal of Feminist
Studies of Religion. Currently, she serves on the editorial
board of The Journal of Law and Religion, and is an active
member of the Workgroup on Constructive Theology, and the Theology
and Culture Group. She has been a research fellow at Harvard University’s
Center for the Study of Values in Public Life, and at the Radcliffe
Center for Advanced Studies.
Presently,
she is at work on a book about religion and law in American public
life.
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