Alison Jasper
Biographic Data
| ID | 3634878 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alison Jasper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alison |
| FAMILY NAME | Jasper |
| SIGNATURE | JASPER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Stirling |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2632-9501 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Agnes Maude Royden 1876–1956 Campaigner for Women’s Suffrage and Ordination
Maude Royden was something of a celebrity in the first half of the twentieth century, known in Britain and internationally, for her part in campaigns for women’s suffrage, but also for her pacifism, later repudiated. Her outspoken views on the role of women in the Church – and in the Anglican Church, her belief that women should be ordained as priests – came from a firm conviction that feminism was a part of Christianity and that the freedoms and…
Continually searching for lost coins
This article traces the pathway of Ann Loades’ important relationship with feminist thinking as it impacted on her understanding of Christian theology. Starting from Searching for Lost Coins (1987) – based on the Scott Holland lectures she delivered in 1986 – it considers her own contributions to feminist theology in a Briish context. In part a personal recollection and celebration of her feminism, the article concludes that Loades curates women’…
Exploring liturgy and gender
Mortal Vulnerabilities
A consideration of some of the embedded themes with which Pamela Sue Anderson was concerned during her career will bear out the suggestion that her approach to enhancing life was richly engaging and distinctive. However, it is perhaps the idea of vulnerability, most of all, that crystallizes this distinctiveness and addresses the aims of the Enhancing Life Project with which she was associated at the time of her death in March 2017, but also brin…
Collaborations and Renegotiations
In this article I address some of the themes raised at the conference ‘Grounding the Sacred’ held in July 2015 under the auspices of ‘The Sacred in Literature & the Arts’ (SLA) at Australian Catholic University (ACU) Sydney, Strathfield Campus. First of all I discuss the term ‘sacred’ in relation to the work of nineteenth century sociologist Émile Durkheim for whom the word denoted the objects, practices and assumptions that sustained communal so…
Womanspirit Still Rising? Some Feminist Reflections on ‘Religious Education’ in the UK
It is a complex and sometimes frustrating business to effect change that is in accordance with recognizably feminist principles in the world as it is and we inevitably risk confrontation, misunderstanding and compromise. In this paper I consider some of the complexities and obstacles to effecting feminist-friendly changes in educational spaces with specific reference to the field of teaching most familiar to a majority of us – Religion/Religious …
RE/TRS’ is a Girl’s Subject
This article addresses what appears to be a retrenchment into narrower forms of identification and an increased suspicion of difference in the context of educational policy in the UK – especially in relation to ‘Religious Education’. The adoption of standardized management protocols – ‘managerialism’ – across most if not all policy contexts including public educational spaces reduces spaces for encountering or addressing genuine difference and fo…
Feminism, Religion and This Incredible Need to Believe
In This Incredible Need to Believe (2009), philosopher Julia Kristeva identifies the present as a time of crisis identified with ‘ideality’; historically significant cultural idealizations are failing us, leading to social and cultural breakdown, which Kristeva believes is not being addressed in ‘secular’ western societies. Remarkably, she defends the universal significance of what she defines as ‘belief’, revisiting earlier work on language, lit…
Religion’ in educational spaces
The focus of this article is how ‘religion’, as a materially heterogeneous concept, becomes mobilized in different educational spaces, and the kinds of knowing to which this gives rise. Three ‘case studyish’ illustrations are deployed in order to consider how religion and education produce kinds of knowing which may — or may not — involve knowing well and knowing differently. We argue that it is necessary to attend to both the understanding of re…
The Past Is Not A Husk Yet Change Goes On’
Feminism is still often dismissed as an outmoded or discredited concept, out of touch with the feelings and desires of real women and men or antithetical to any proper vision of Christianity. So for the feminist theologian it is as important as ever to find ways of discriminating between truth and falsity and of discerning a future path. In this piece I try to articulate one possible feminist approach using insights from the work of philosophers …
A case of misrepresentation
A PhD student1 in our department who has a background in classical studies and is now researching the use of the World Wide Web by pagan groups was the first to see this survey on religious studies in Scotland. She felt worried at the time by the way the article misrepresented what we did at Stirling. Coming from another country to do postgraduate studies in religion here, she felt people in her country reading this journal would be given a false…
Raising the Dead? Reflections on Feminist Biblical Criticism in the Light of Pamela Sue Anderson's Book
Religion’ in educational spaces
The focus of this article is how ‘religion’, as a materially heterogeneous concept, becomes mobilized in different educational spaces, and the kinds of knowing to which this gives rise. Three ‘case studyish’ illustrations are deployed in order to consider how religion and education produce kinds of knowing which may — or may not — involve knowing well and knowing differently. We argue that it is necessary to attend to both the understanding of re…
Raising the Dead? Reflections on Feminist Biblical Criticism in the Light of Pamela Sue Anderson's Book
The Past Is Not A Husk Yet Change Goes On’
Feminism is still often dismissed as an outmoded or discredited concept, out of touch with the feelings and desires of real women and men or antithetical to any proper vision of Christianity. So for the feminist theologian it is as important as ever to find ways of discriminating between truth and falsity and of discerning a future path. In this piece I try to articulate one possible feminist approach using insights from the work of philosophers …
A case of misrepresentation
A PhD student1 in our department who has a background in classical studies and is now researching the use of the World Wide Web by pagan groups was the first to see this survey on religious studies in Scotland. She felt worried at the time by the way the article misrepresented what we did at Stirling. Coming from another country to do postgraduate studies in religion here, she felt people in her country reading this journal would be given a false…
Religion’ in educational spaces
The focus of this article is how ‘religion’, as a materially heterogeneous concept, becomes mobilized in different educational spaces, and the kinds of knowing to which this gives rise. Three ‘case studyish’ illustrations are deployed in order to consider how religion and education produce kinds of knowing which may — or may not — involve knowing well and knowing differently. We argue that it is necessary to attend to both the understanding of re…
Feminism, Religion and This Incredible Need to Believe
In This Incredible Need to Believe (2009), philosopher Julia Kristeva identifies the present as a time of crisis identified with ‘ideality’; historically significant cultural idealizations are failing us, leading to social and cultural breakdown, which Kristeva believes is not being addressed in ‘secular’ western societies. Remarkably, she defends the universal significance of what she defines as ‘belief’, revisiting earlier work on language, lit…
Womanspirit Still Rising? Some Feminist Reflections on ‘Religious Education’ in the UK
It is a complex and sometimes frustrating business to effect change that is in accordance with recognizably feminist principles in the world as it is and we inevitably risk confrontation, misunderstanding and compromise. In this paper I consider some of the complexities and obstacles to effecting feminist-friendly changes in educational spaces with specific reference to the field of teaching most familiar to a majority of us – Religion/Religious …
RE/TRS’ is a Girl’s Subject
This article addresses what appears to be a retrenchment into narrower forms of identification and an increased suspicion of difference in the context of educational policy in the UK – especially in relation to ‘Religious Education’. The adoption of standardized management protocols – ‘managerialism’ – across most if not all policy contexts including public educational spaces reduces spaces for encountering or addressing genuine difference and fo…
Collaborations and Renegotiations
In this article I address some of the themes raised at the conference ‘Grounding the Sacred’ held in July 2015 under the auspices of ‘The Sacred in Literature & the Arts’ (SLA) at Australian Catholic University (ACU) Sydney, Strathfield Campus. First of all I discuss the term ‘sacred’ in relation to the work of nineteenth century sociologist Émile Durkheim for whom the word denoted the objects, practices and assumptions that sustained communal so…
Mortal Vulnerabilities
A consideration of some of the embedded themes with which Pamela Sue Anderson was concerned during her career will bear out the suggestion that her approach to enhancing life was richly engaging and distinctive. However, it is perhaps the idea of vulnerability, most of all, that crystallizes this distinctiveness and addresses the aims of the Enhancing Life Project with which she was associated at the time of her death in March 2017, but also brin…
Exploring liturgy and gender
Continually searching for lost coins
This article traces the pathway of Ann Loades’ important relationship with feminist thinking as it impacted on her understanding of Christian theology. Starting from Searching for Lost Coins (1987) – based on the Scott Holland lectures she delivered in 1986 – it considers her own contributions to feminist theology in a Briish context. In part a personal recollection and celebration of her feminism, the article concludes that Loades curates women’…
Agnes Maude Royden 1876–1956 Campaigner for Women’s Suffrage and Ordination
Maude Royden was something of a celebrity in the first half of the twentieth century, known in Britain and internationally, for her part in campaigns for women’s suffrage, but also for her pacifism, later repudiated. Her outspoken views on the role of women in the Church – and in the Anglican Church, her belief that women should be ordained as priests – came from a firm conviction that feminism was a part of Christianity and that the freedoms and…
Sociology (11 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Theology (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (5 works) · Christianity (4 works) · Feminism (4 works) · History (4 works) · Political science (4 works)