Mary E. Hunt: “Responsible Academics are Useful Activists”

Feminist theologian Mary E. Hunt spoke Aug. 1 as part of the Summer Institute for Seminary Students, sponsored by the Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender and Sexuality and the Human Rights Campaign.

Watch video of Hunt, co-founder and co-director of the Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual, speaking on “Responsible Academics are Useful Activists.”

In cooperation with the Human Rights Campaign, the Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality Studies hosts for the second year their Summer Institute. An ecumenical group of 17 advanced seminary students from around the country and internationally convened at Vanderbilt Divinity School for a series of workshops with and lectures by some of the foremost scholar-activists on issues of religion and sexuality in the U.S.