Mary Fulkerson | Scholars@Duke

Mary Fulkerson
Professor Emerita of Theology

Professor McClintock Fulkerson’s primary teaching interests are practical theology, feminist theologies, contemporary Protestant theology, authority in theology, and ecclesiology.

Her work is published in journals such as Journal of the American Academy of Religion, the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, and Modern Theology. Her book, Changing the Subject: Women’s Discourses and Feminist Theology, examines the liberating practices of feminist academics and non-feminist church women. Her book Places of Redemption: Theology for a Worldly Church is on ecclesial practices that enable resistance to racism and other contemporary forms of social brokenness, interpreting the doctrine of the church in light of racial diversity and the differently abled. Her recent publication, The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theology, is a collection of essays on feminist theology and globalization, which she co-edited with Sheila Briggs. Fulkerson’s most recent book is a volume of essays co-edited with Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz and Rosemary Carbine entitled Theological Perspectives on Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, published by Palgrave Macmillan. Her upcoming book is on the Eucharist and white colorblindness as racism.

An ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Professor McClintock Fulkerson is a member of the national Advocacy for Women Task Force of the PC(USA). She is faculty sponsor of the Divinity School’s Sacred Worth group, a student organization for LGBT concerns, director of the Program in Gender, Theology, and Ministry, and faculty sponsor of the Women's Center.

She is currently involved in the “Pauli Murray Project: Activating History for Social Change,” a Duke Human Rights Center project on racial healing and reconciliation in Durham County through history-telling.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Professor Emerita of Theology, Divinity School, Duke University 2019

Contact Information

213 Old Divinity, Durham, NC 27708
Duke Box 90967, Durham, NC 27708-0967
mfulk@duke.edu (919) 660-3458

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Vanderbilt University 1986
- M.A., Duke University 1977
- B.M., University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill 1972
Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Professor of Theology, Divinity School, Duke University 2007 - 2019
- Professor of Women's Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2009 - 2017
- Associate Professor with Tenure, Divinity School, Duke University 1995 - 2007
- Associate Professor in Women's Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2003 - 2006
- Assistant Professor, Divinity School, Duke University 1987 - 1995
- Instructor, Non Tenure Track, Divinity School, Duke University 1983 - 1987
Recognition
In the News
- FEB 12, 2019 Duke Divinity School
  
  Professor Mary McClintock Fulkerson receives honorary doctorate from Uppsala University in Sweden
- NOV 29, 2015
  
  Divinity's Fulkerson co-writes book on race and the Eucharist in white-dominant churches
- JUL 10, 2015 The News & Observer
  
  Mary McClintock Fulkerson: Religious freedom and the uncompelling case for ‘biblical marriage’
- JUL 10, 2015 the News & Observer
  
  The Uncompelling Case for ‘Biblical Marriage’
- MAR 19, 2015 WNCN
  
  Mary McClintock Fulkerson comments: Presbyterians approve gay marriage in church constitution
Expertise
Subject Headings
Research
Selected Grants
- Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault: Providing Competent Medical and Spiritual Care awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 2008
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Books
  - Fulkerson, M. M. Theological Interpretation for Life , Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Public Intellectuals for the Twenty-First Century. New York City, NY: Palgrave MacMillan, 2013.
  - Fulkerson, M. M., and S. Briggs. The Oxford handbook of feminist theology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
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  - Fulkerson, M. M. Places of redemption: theology for a worldly church. Oxford; New York: Oxford Univ Pr, 2007.
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  - Fulkerson, M. M. Changing the subject: women's discourses and feminist theology. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1994.
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- Academic Articles
  - Fulkerson, M. M. “Transforming Memory: Re-membering the Eucharist.” Theology Today 70, no. 2 (2013).
  - Fulkerson, M. M. “Ethnography: A Gift to Theology and Ethics.” Practical Matters 6 (2013).
  - Fulkerson, M. M. “Receiving from the Other: Theology & Grass-Roots Organizing.” International Journal of Public Theology 6 (2012): 421–34.
  - Shukla, M., and M. Fulkerson, MM. “Places of redemption: theology for a worldly church.” Anglican Theological Review 92, no. 3 (June 1, 2010): 570–570.
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  - Mary McClintock Fulkerson, M. M. “Womyn and the Theological Perspective.” Womyn: The Queer Experience, 2010, 20–21.
  - Fulkerson, M. M. “"I'm Not a Women's Libber, but...": Feminist Theologies and Non-Feminist Women.” The Ecumenist: A Journal of Theology, Culture, and Society 1, no. 2 (2009): 6–12.
  - Fulkerson, M. M. C. “A place to appear: Ecclesiology as if bodies mattered.” Theology Today 64, no. 2 (January 1, 2007): 159–71. https://doi.org/10.1177/004057360706400203.
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  - McClintock, M. “Theology and the Lure of the Practical: An Overview.” Religion Compass 1, no. 2 (2007): 294–304. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-8171.2007.00022.x.
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  - Fulkerson, M. M. “Feminist Exploration : A Theological Proposal.” International Journal of Practical Theology 2, no. 2 (January 1, 1998): 208–21.
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  - Fulkerson, M. M. “Spiritual Geographies.” Cross Currents: Journal of the Association for Religion and Intellectual Life 48 (1998): 241–44.
  - Fulkerson, M. M. “Changing the subject: feminist theology and discourse.” Literature and Theology 10, no. 2 (1996): 131–47.
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  - Fulkerson, Mary McClintock. “Church Documents on Human Sexuality and the Authority of Scripture.” Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology 49, no. 1 (January 1995): 46–58. https://doi.org/10.1177/002096439504900105.
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  - Fulkerson, M. M. “Gender--Being It or Doing It? The Church, Homosexuality, and the Politics of Identity.” Union Seminary Quarterly Review 47, no. 1–2 (January 1, 1993): 29–46.
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  - Fulkerson, M. M. “Sexism as original sin: Developing a theacentric discourse.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 59, no. 4 (December 1, 1991): 653–76. https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LIX.4.653.
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  - Fulkerson, M. M. “Contesting Feminist Canons: Discourse and the Problem of Sexist Texts.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 7, no. 2 (1991): 53–73.
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  - Fulkerson, M. M. “Theological education and the problem of identity.” Modern Theology 7, no. 5 (1991): 465–82. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0025.1991.tb00261.x.
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- Book Sections
  - Fulkerson, M. M. “Redeeming Equality: Life, Liberty, and Alternatives to Obliviousness.” In Theological Interpretation for Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Public Intellectuals for the Tewnty-First Century, edited by M. M. Fulkerson, M. M. Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz, and M. M. Rosemary P. Carbine. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2013.
  - Fulkerson, M. M. “Interpreting a Situation: When is "Empirical" also "Theological?".” In Perspectives on Ecclesiology and Ethnography, Studies in Ecclesiology and Ethnography, Vol. 1, 124–44. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 2012.
  - McClintock Fulkerson, M. “Systematic Theology.” In The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Practical Theology, edited by B. Miller-McLemore, 356–66. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
  - Fulkerson, M. M. “Feminist Theology.” In Liberation Theologies in the United States: An Introduction, edited by S. M. Floyd-Thomas and A. B. Pinn, 209–25. New York: New York University Press, 2010.
  - McClintock Fulkerson, M. “Theological Reflection and Theories of Practice: Rethinking Normative Memory as if Bodies Mattered.” In Pastoral Bearings: Lived Religion and Pastoral Theology, edited by J. Maynard, L. Hummel, and M. Moschella, 23–41. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010.
  - Fulkerson, M. M. “The challenge of globalized feminism for Protestant hermeneutics.” In Reshaping Protestantism in a Global Context, 109–20. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers (LIT Verlag), 2009.
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  - McClintock Fulkerson, M. “Being Nice in Church: Rituals of Propriety and the Sin of Oblivion.” In Church and Religious “Other,” edited by G. Mannion, 168–81. New York: T&T Clark, 2008.
  - Fulkerson, M. M. “The imago Dei and a Reformed logic for feminist/womanist critique.” In Feminist and Womanist Essays in Reformed Dogmatics, 95–106. Louisville, Ky: Westminster John Knox, 2006.
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  - McClintock Fulkerson, M. “Church.” In Constructive Theology: A Contemporary Approach to Classical Themes, edited by S. Jones and P. Lakeland, 201–38. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2005.
  - McClintock Fulkerson, M. “Feminist theology.” In The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern Theology, edited by K. Vanhoozer, 109–25. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. https://doi.org/10.1017%2FCCOL052179062X.007&rft.externalDocID=ccol052179062x_CCOL052179062XA009&paramdict=en-US<br/>[]<br/>Even.
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  - Fulkerson, M. M. “"They will know we are Christians by our regulated improvisation": ecclesial hybridity and the unity of the church.” In Blackwell Companion to Postmodern Theology, 265–79. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.
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  - Fulkerson, M. M. “"We don't see color here": a case study in ecclesial-cultural invention.” In Converging on Culture, 140–57. New York: Oxford Univ Pr, 2001.
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  - Fulkerson, M. M. “Practice.” In Handbook of Postmodern Biblical Interpretation, 189–98. St. Louis: Chalice Pr, 2000.
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  - Fulkerson, M. M. “Grace, Christian controversy, and tolerable falsehoods.” In Grace upon Grace, 231–53. Nashville: Abingdon Pr, 1999.
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  - Fulkerson, M. M. “Toward a materialist Christian social criticism: accommodation and culture reconsidered.” In Theology & Corporate Conscience, 106–19. Minneapolis, Minn: Kirk House Publishers, 1999.
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  - Fulkerson, M. M. “'Is there a (non-sexist) bible in this church?' A feminist case for the priority of interpretive communities,” 14:225–42, 1998. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0025.00065.
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  - Fulkerson, M. M. “Contesting the gendered subject - A feminist account of the imago Dei.” edited by R. S. Chopp and S. G. Davaney, 99-+. FORTRESS PRESS, 1997.
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  - McClintock Fulkerson, M., and S. Dunlap. “Michel Foucault (1926-1984): Introduction.” In The Postmodern God: A Theological Reader, edited by G. Ward, 116–23. Oxford/Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1997.
  - Fulkerson, M. M. “Toward a materialist Christian social criticism : accommodation and culture reconsidered.” In Changing Conversations, 43–57. New York: Routledge, 1996.
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  - Fulkerson, M. M. “Gender -- Being It or Doing It? The Church, Homosexuality, and the Politics of Identity.” In Queerying Religious Studies, edited by G. Comstock and G. Susan Henking, 188–201. Continuum, 1996.
  - Fulkerson, M. M. “Theologia as a liberation habitus : thoughts toward Christian formation for resistance.” In Theology and the Interhuman, 160–80. Valley Forge, Pa: Trinity Pr Int’l, 1995.
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  - Fulkerson, M. M. “Feminist Theology.” In The Westminister Dictionary of Christian Theology, edited by D. DeVries and B. Gerrish. Louisville: Westminister/John Knox Press, n.d.
  - Fulkerson, M. M. “Feminist Theology.” In Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology, edited by D. Fergusson, K. Kilby, I. Torrance, and I. A. McFarland. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, n.d.
- Other Articles
  - Mary McClintock Fulkerson, L G. R. E. G. O. R. Y. “Gathering Those Driven Away: A Theology of Incarnation.” Interpretation. Richmond: Sage Publications Ltd, 2013.
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  - Mary McClintock Fulkerson, M. M. “Doctrine of Humanity.” Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1992.

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