Elizabeth M. Freese, PhD is a sociologist of religion focused on the Reproductive Justice movement and serving as Scholar-in-Residence with SACReD (Spiritual Alliance of Communities for Reproductive Dignity) to support its education and advocacy programs.

In her public scholarship, Freese contributes to an understanding of the interactions between Christianity and the politics of reproduction. Her essays have been featured in Salon, Religious Dispatches, Common Dreams, Feminism and Religion, and Vanderbilt Divinity School’s Interventions forum, and she has participated in webinar panels with Drew University’s Forum on Religion and Global Heath, Women’s March, RCRC, and Vanderbilt Divinity School’s Program in Religion and Justice.

Academically, Freese’s research interrogates dynamics between Christian religious constructions in biblical myth and Eucharist ritual, on the one hand, and, on the other, intersectional, feminist justice concerns. Her recent article in the Journal of Body and Religion, “Toward Eve’s Exodus: Un-Misrecognizing Androcentric Reproductive Labor Ideology in Christian Right Rhetoric and Genesis 1-3” (2024), illuminates the ancient patriarchal basis for hollow "life at conception" theology.

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