The aim of this unit is to provide a forum for research in issues and questions relating to feminist methods of interpretation. While specifically focused on methodological concerns, we are also concerned to ground that reflection in the reality of engagement with specific texts.
An a-Z of Feminist Theology by
"This exciting volume brings together a wide range of perspectives on one of the most important and challenging areas of modern theology. There are entries on all the major themes of Christian feminist theology, including models of God and of the Church, ethics and spirituality, sexuality and liberation. Many of the entries push their respective discussions beyond the rigid boundaries of previous theological discourse. Together they present the far-reaching concerns of feminist theology in an accessible and stimulating way. The compendium is both a resource and an inspiration for scholars and students of feminist theology and for all those who are interested in this field of reflection and activity."--Bloomsbury Publishing
From Women's Experience to Feminist Theology by
"What are the implications of adopting a primacy of praxis position in feminist theology? How can we respect the diversity of women's experience while retaining it as a useful analytic category? Do these twin resources of women's experience and praxis together imply that feminist theology is ultimately relativist? Through an analysis of the work of some of today's key feminist theologians - Christian, womanist and post-Christian - Linda Hogan considers these and other methodological questions."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Making the Difference by
"One of the most significant phenomena within the Western church in the second half of the twentieth century has been the emergence of feminist theology. This both reflects and promotes pastoral and policy concerns about the proper roles and relationships of women and men within the Christian church, such as the validity of women's priestly ministry, the use of inclusive language in liturgy and the metaphorical naming of God. At the heart of the debate is the question of the meaning and significance of gender in theology and Christian practice. Within the human and social sciences, the analysis of gender is treated as an essential aspect of human behaviour. By contrast, within the church there has been little sustained or disciplined attention to the nature and underlying significance of gender. Theological discourse and church policy have too often displayed ignorance and unexamined assumptions about the crucial issues involved. Graham attempts a more detailed and critical inquiry into how an analysis of gender can affect policy, practice and discourse within the church. Focusing on three major disciplines - anthropology, biology and psychoanalysis - she demonstrates how these offer profound implications for our understanding of the foundations of human culture and identity, for theological studies and for Christian practice."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Recognizing Other Subjects by
An interdisciplinary study that draws upon feminism and social theory to develop a theology of pastoral care that emphasises the importance of recognition for human well-being.
Wisdom's Feast by
Woman Wisdom in Proverbs 9 invites any who want to learn her ways to come and eat at her table--an image for the rich and satisfying teaching that she offers. In this book Barbara Reid invites readers to this feast, drawing on women's wisdom to offer fresh new interpretations of biblical texts in a way that promotes equal dignity and value for women and men alike. Reid begins by presenting feminist methods of biblical interpretation and explaining why they are important, giving attention not only to gender perspectives but also to race, class, and culture as determinative factors in how one understands the biblical text. She then presents fresh, readable feminist interpretations of selected Old and New Testament texts. Each chapter concludes with discussion questions for group or personal use. Making feminist interpretation of Scripture understandable, compelling, and usable, Wisdom's Feastwill be valuable to any readers hungry to learn from the rich insights of feminist biblical scholars.
Feminist Theory and the Bible by
Feminist Theory and the Bible conceptualizes, contextualizes, and maps a new kind of burgeoning scholarship that has emerged in recent decades. The chapters included here consider both the theory and practice of feminist Biblical studies
Gender Agenda Matters by
In the last two decades, feminism has often been declared dead. One reason for this was the overwhelming success of gender and queer studies; another was supposedly nurtured by the hope of conservatives that girls and women should return to that which is traditionally perceived as "female". This volume, which brings together the most interesting papers of the feminist exegesis section of the recent International Meetings of the Society of Biblical Literature, offers vivid proof that feminist studies did not lose their appeal to young scholars, and that there is still enough potential for fresh.
Feminist Biblical Studies in the Twentieth Century by
Chart the development of feminist approaches and theories of interpretation during the period when women first joined the ranks of biblical scholars This collection of essays on feminist biblical studies in the twentieth century seeks to explore four areas of inquiry demanding further investigation. In the first section, articles chart the beginnings and developments of feminist biblical studies as a conversation among feminists around the world. The second section introduces, reviews, and discusses the hermeneutic religious spaces created by feminist biblical studies. The third segment discusses academic methods of reading and interpretation that dismantle androcentric language and kyriarchal authority. The fourth section returns to the first with work that transgresses academic boundaries in order to exemplify the transforming, inspiring, and institutionalizing feminist work that has been and is being done to change religious mindsets of domination and to enable wo/men to engage in critical readings of the Bible. Features: Essays examine the rupture or break in the male stream reception history of the Bible Exploration of the term feminism in different social-cultural and theoretical-religious locations Authors from around the world present research and future directions for research challenging the next generation of feminist interpreters.
The Hebrew Bible by
This volume provides an introduction and essays on the four key sections of the Hebrew Scriptures from the perspective of top female biblical scholars. This volume highlights key issues in the Hebrew Scriptures, including historical critical and literary textual analysis and exegesis, particularly as viewed through feminist and intersectional interpretive lenses. Intersectional lenses include the racial/ethnic, class, Global South, postcolonial, and so forth, and their interconnections with gender. The introduction to the volume by the editor introduces feminist intersectional biblical scholarship, making the case that this scholarship addresses perspectives that are often missing from even very thorough survey texts: feminist and intersectional issues regarding the women characters, sexual assumptions, sexual and domestic violence, symbolization of women, class and race relations, and so forth. The essays have been created for students who may be encountering feminist biblical and intersectional scholarship for the first time. - Publisher.This volume highlights key issues in the Hebrew Scriptures from the perspective of top female biblical scholars. This includes historical critical and literary textual analysis and exegesis, particularly as viewed through feminist and intersectional interpretive lenses. Intersectional lenses include the racial/ethnic, class, Global South, postcolonial, and so forth, and their interconnections with gender. - Project Muse.
Studies in Bible and Feminist Criticism by
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Retrospective -- List of Abbreviations -- COMPARATIVE CULTURE I: ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN RELIGIONS -- Creation Myths -- 1 / Atrahasis: An Introduction -- 2 / The Planting of Man: A Study in Biblical Imagery -- Flood Myths -- 3 / Israel and the Ancient Near East: New Perspectives on the Flood -- 4 / The Atrahasis Epic and Its Significance for Our Understanding of Genesis 1�9 -- Goddess Myths -- 5 / Goddesses: Biblical Echoes -- 6 / Lolita-Inanna -- COMPARATIVE CULTURE II: JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
7 / The Image: Religious Anthropology in Judaism and Christianity8 / Biblical Voices on Chosenness -- 9 / Jesus and the Law -- 10 / Covenant: A Jewish Biblical Perspective -- FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES I: GENDER AND THE BIBLE -- 11 / The Bible and Women�s Studies -- 12 / The Ideology of Gender in the Bible and the Ancient Near East -- 13 / Sanctifying Torah -- 14 / Reading Rahab -- FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES II: GENDER AND THE LAW -- 15 / Patriarchal Family Relationships and Near Eastern Law -- 16 / Law and Philosophy: The Case of Sex in the Bible
17 / Halakhah, Law, and Feminism18 / The Feminist Challenge to Halakhah -- THEOLOGIES I: BIBLICAL THEOLOGY -- 19 / Revelation Revealed: The Doubt of Torah -- 20 / Moses and the Cults: The Question of Religious Leadership -- 21 / The Theology of Catastrophe: A Question of Historical Justice -- 22 / The End of the World and the Limits of Biblical Ecology -- 23 / Pollution, Purification, and Purgation in Biblical Israel -- 24 / Ecology in a Biblical Perspective -- THEOLOGIES II: CONSTRUCTIVE THEOLOGY -- 25 / The Emergence of Jewish Biblical Theologies
26 / Constructing a Theology of Healing27 / On Feminine God-Talk -- 28 / Woman Jews -- 29 / Like a Birthing Woman -- 30 / Shaddai -- Bibliography of the Published Writings of Tikva Frymer-Kensky