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Print Price: $76.95

Format:
Paperback
400 pp.
138 mm x 216 mm

ISBN-13:
9780198782469

Publication date:
November 2003

Imprint: OUP UK


Feminism and Theology

Edited by Janet Martin Soskice and Diana Lipton

Series : Oxford Readings in Feminism

Christianity and Judaism have inspired reflective theology for thousands of years but until recently, little of it was written by women. Feminism not only proposes new answers to the questions, but compels a reevaluation as to the questions themselves.
The essays in this volume represent the richnes of feminist writings in theology, an area that commands international interest, inside and outside the academy, and addresses aspects of theological study including biblical interpretation, historical approaches, doctrine philosophy of religion and ethics. This book brings together some of the best essays in the field, with an introduction by Janet Martin Soskice mapping the historical, global and doctrinal contributions to theology.The essys are arranged thematically, and an introduction mapping the area is enhanced by general remarks on each theme and specific comments on individual contributions. This book seeks to engage readers new to the field as well as professionals. The collection emphasises the importance of grass roots contributions alongside academic work.

Readership : Students of theology, gender or women's studies in relation to theology, and general readers interested with an academic or practical interest in the application of feminist thought to theology.

I. Sourcess
1. Linda Walter: Telling Tales
2. Anita Diamant: The Red Tent
3. Benjaporn Mochai: On Being A Woman: Thailand
4. Rosemary Radford Ruether: Ecofeminism: First and Third World Women
5. Alicia Ostriker: The Nakedness of the Fathers: Biblical Visions and Revisions
6. Mary Daly: Beyond God the Father
II. Identity
7. Kari Vogt: 'Becoming Male': One Aspect of Early Christian Anthropology
8. Elizabeth A. Castelli: 'I Will Make Mary Male': Pieties of the Body and Gender Transformation of Christian Women in Late Antiquity
9. Jane Dempsey Douglass: The Image of God in Women as Seen by Luther and Calvin
10. Maria Ada Isasi-Diaz: Roundtable Discussion: Mujeristas, Who We Are and What We Are About
12. Maria Ada Isasi-Diaz: Mujerista Theology
13. Elsa Tamez: Against Machismo: Interiews by Elsa Tamez
14. Haviva Ner-David: Life on the Fringes: A Feminist Journey Toward Traditional Rabbinic Ordination
15. Rachel Muers: The Mute Cannot Keep Silent: Barth, Von Balthasar, and Irigaray, on the Construction of Women's Silence
III. Sacred Texts
16. J. Cheryl Exum: Plotted, Shot and Painted: Cultural Representations of Biblical Women
17. Phyllis Trible: Genesis 22: The Sacrifice of Sarah
18. Athalya Brenner: The Hebrew God and his Female Complements
19. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg: The Particulars of Rapture: Reflections on Exodus
20. Carolyn Osiek: Galatians
21. Pheme Perkins: Philippians
22. Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza: Discipleship of Equals: A Critical Feminist Ekklesia-logy of Liberation
IV. Practice
23. Blu Greenberg: On Women and Judaism: A View from Tradition
24. Elizabeth A. Clark: 'Adam's Only Companion': Augustine and the Early Christian Debate on Marriage
25. Sarah Coakley: Living into the Mystery of the Holy Trinity: Trinity, Prayer, and Sexuality
26. Rachel Adler: Engendering Judaism: An Inclusive Theolgoy and Ethics
Incarnation and Embodiment
27. Daphne Hampson: Theology and Feminsim
28. Jacquelyn Grant: White Women's Christ and Black Women's Jesus: Feminist Christology and Womanist Response
29. Teresa Okure: The Significance Today of Jesus' Commission to Mary Magdalene
30. Verna Harrison: The Care-Banishing Breast of the Father
31. Janet Martin Soskice: Blood and Defilement
32. Grace M. Jantzen: Contours of a Queer Theology
33. Sharon A. Bong: Suffering, Resisting, Healing: An Asian View of the Body

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Janet Martin Soskice is a leading figure in modern theology - she is a past president of the Catholic Theological Association of Great Britain, former McCarthy Visiting Professor at the Gregorian University in Rome, and a frequent broadcaster on religious and ethical issues. Diana Lipton directs studies in Theology at Newnham College, a Cambridge college dedicated to educating women since its foundation in 1875. She teaches Hebrew Bible to rabbinical students at Leo Baeck College - Centre for Jewish Education in London, and is responsible for children's education and for leading many religious services at Beth Shalom Reform Synagogue in Cambridge.

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Special Features

  • Janet Martin Soskice and Diana Lipton have selected pieces from a wide range of sources, connecting popular feminist writings with scholarly treatments
  • Includes contributions from outstanding scholars and writers in the field drawing upon a wide range of perspectives: Jewish and Christian, historical and contemporary, personal and political.
  • Takes a constructive look at the issues central to feminist theology including the interpretation of sacred texts, worship and liturgy, incarnation and embodiment, spirituality and sexuality, identity, ecofeminism and motherhood.
  • Spans diverse areas of theology including biblical interpretation, historical approaches, philosophy of religion and doctrine.
  • Essays are arranged thematically, each with its own introduction enhanced by general remarks.