Rebecca Todd Peters

Rebecca Todd Peters

Rebecca Todd Peters is a feminist and Christian social ethicist who serves as a professor of Religious Studies at Elon University. Peters' scholarship focuses on questions related to economics, the environmental crisis, globalization, poverty and women's access to reproductive health care. Peters received her B.A. from Rhodes College in Art and English and her M.Div. and Ph.D. in Christian Social Ethics from Union Theological Seminary in New York. She was also ordained as a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) minister and worked in the PCUSA national office of Women's Ministries for six years.Peters is a past President of the American Academy of Religion, Southeast Region and was Elon University's 2011–12 Distinguished Scholar. She also served as the Founding Director of the Poverty and Social Justice program at Elon.Her books include: In Search of the Good Life: The Ethics of Globalization (Continuum, 2004), which won the 2003 Trinity Book Prize. Justice in a Global Economy: Strategies for Home, Community and World (Westminster/John Knox, 2006) To Do Justice: A Guide for Progressive Christians (Westminster/John Knox, 2008) Solidarity Ethics: Transformation in a Globalized World (Fortress Press, 2014) Trust Women: A Progressive Christian Argument for Reproductive Justice (Beacon Press, 2018)Dominican University of California Professor Laura Stivers has stated that in her book Solidarity Ethics, Peters "lays the groundwork... for how we can come together in solidarity across lines of difference to create movements for justice and structural change."Peters' book Trust Women has been described as offering "a Christian argument for abortion" and as "shifting the conversation [about abortion] to reproductive justice." Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federatio

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