In the social and moral orders, the goals and related categories, relations, behaviors, and processes are "homologous," or manifest the same logic, though not obviously or directly so, with both centered upon hyper-re/productivity. Specifically, the Episcopal ritual of Eucharist and the integral myth of Exodus 1-24, woven together within the context of the hierarchical Church, construct a misrecognized moral order of re/production, via metaphors of biological sexual reproduction, which sacralizes and naturalizes ideology that strongly resonates with the social order of capitalist society.

Following an extensive historical materialist review of the social order transition from feudalism to capitalism in Europe and its colonies, I interrogate the parallel development of Protestant Reformation religiosity out of medieval Catholicism. From a synthesis of non-reductive materialist and new materialist, feminist theory, on the one hand, and a deep, anthropological and historical genealogy of re/productive religious symbolism, on the other, I derive a novel bio/social-structural relations hermeneutic. I deploy this lens to identify and describe numerous specific ways the Episcopal Church configures re/productive categories according to a patriarchal, hyper-growth logic in its moral order of "rite relations."

This study is intended to challenge the hegemonic construction of a moral order that legitimates capitalism, but also to support creative transformation of that moral order toward the righting of rite relations that align with counter-hegemonic social and ecological justice. Secondarily, this project develops several theoretical and methodological insights that may be useful to religious and feminist studies more broadly. I conclude with a range of examples of rites that construct right relations.