The following is a guest post written by Jeremy Fackenthal, Ph.D. candidate in the philosophy of religion program at Claremont Graduate University. His work focuses on process theology and philosophy, critical theory, and post-Holocaust thought.One of my good friends taught an undergrad course on feminism in religion several years ago and assigned a book of John Cobb’s. The class read it, loved it, and began a conversation about whether or not men could be feminists. They decided that they could and that John Cobb surely must be a feminist. And so they sent him one of the “This is what a feminist looks like” t-shirts, which he happily received and reportedly still has to this day. I tell this story not only to demonstrate that John Cobb is a feminist and cares deeply about feminist issues, but also as a way of pointing out that the process theology that Cobb has been so instrumental in developing and that has become his academic trademark is itself strongly supportive of and compatible with feminist thought.
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Feminism and Religion 