Contemporary Feminist Theologies

Author : Kerrie Handasyde,Cathryn McKinney,Rebekah Pryor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000339987

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Contemporary Feminist Theologies by Kerrie Handasyde,Cathryn McKinney,Rebekah Pryor Pdf

This book explores the issues of power, authority and love with current concerns in the Christian theological exploration of feminism and feminist theology. It addresses its key themes in three parts: (1) power deals with feminist critiques, (2) authority unpacks feminist methodologies, and (3) love explores feminist ethics. Covering issues such as embodiment, intersectionality, liberation theologies, historiography, queer approaches to hermeneutics, philosophy and more, it provides a multi-layered and nuanced appreciation of this important area of theological thought and practice. This volume will be vital reading for scholars of feminist theology, queer theology, process theology, practical theology, religion and gender.

Author : Watson
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802848281

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Feminist Theology by Watson Pdf

Rethinking the Christian faith from a woman's perspective has been an important advancement in modern theology. This book introduces the methods, ideas, and contributions of recent feminist theology to readers encountering the subject for the first time. Natalie Watson explores the historical background of feminist theology, discusses the value of reading Scripture from a feminist perspective, and shows how this approach can offer a critical, creative, and constructive rereading of the Christian tradition. She also sets forth some fresh ideas encouraging people to see feminism not as a threat to the church but as a challenging perspective that actually enhances its life in today's world. An extensive annotated bibliography invites readers to further study, presenting a wealth of books on feminist theology by many well-known authors. Ideal for classroom instruction, discussion groups, and personal study, this volume is an exceptional, user-friendly guide to contemporary feminist thought.

Author : Lucy Tatman
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001-12-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1841273457

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Knowledge That Matters by Lucy Tatman Pdf

Lucy Tatman identifies the events and ideas that influenced the formation of a North american feminist paradigm. She explores the components of this paradigm, particularly the way in which they affect the understanding of knowledge. She then examines the representation of these elements in the theologies of three prominent feminist theologians in North America: Rosemary Radford Ruether, Carter Heyward, and Sallie McFague. From her discussion of these scholars, she proposes that a responsible feminist practice of epistemology requires participatory discernment.

Author : Janette Gray,Kathleen O'Grady,Ann L. Gilroy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781474282048

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Bodies, Lives, Voices by Janette Gray,Kathleen O'Grady,Ann L. Gilroy Pdf

This work lies at the critical juncture of feminism and religious studies and participates in the vibrant tradition of the feminist anthology. It is part of a broad feminist discourse that continues to grow less monolithic and more varied in material, method and style each year. The papers are divided into three main sections: the representation of women in sacred texts and theologies, the fundamental need to recover the heritage of women and to return to women their history, and the coming together of canonical texts with contemporary feminist theory in order to address philosophical and theological problems.

Author : Hannah Bacon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567659941

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Feminist Theology and Contemporary Dieting Culture by Hannah Bacon Pdf

Hannah Bacon draws on qualitative research conducted inside one UK secular commercial weight loss group to show how Christian religious forms and theological discourses inform contemporary weight-loss narratives. Bacon argues that notions of sin and salvation resurface in secular guise in ways that repeat well-established theological meanings. The slimming organization recycles the Christian terminology of sin – spelt 'Syn' – and encourages members to frame weight loss in salvific terms. These theological tropes lurk in the background helping to align food once more with guilt and moral weakness, but they also mirror to an extent the way body policing techniques in Christianity have historically helped to cultivate self-care. The self-breaking and self-making aspects of women's Syn-watching practices in the group continue certain features of historical Christianity, serving in similar ways to conform women's bodies to patriarchal norms while providing opportunities for women's self-development. Taking into account these tensions, Bacon asks what a specifically feminist theological response to weight loss might look like. If ideas about sin and salvation service hegemonic discourses about fat while also empowering women to shape their own lives, how might they be rethought to challenge fat phobia and the frenetic pursuit of thinness? As well as naming as 'sin' principles and practices which diminish women's appetites and bodies, this book forwards a number of proposals about how salvation might be performed in our everyday eating habits and through the cultivation of fat pride. It takes seriously the conviction of many women in the group that food and the body can be important sites of power, wisdom and transformation, but channels this insight into the construction of theologies that resist rather than reproduce thin privilege and size-ist norms.

Author : Ellen K. Wondra
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0819194395

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Humanity Has Been a Holy Thing by Ellen K. Wondra Pdf

This book explores the development of Christology by major white North American feminist theologians, placing the Christologies of Rosemary Radford Ruether, Carter Heyward, Patricia Wilson-Kastner, and Marjorie Suchocki within the context of their overall theologies. Wondra further examines the meaning and importance of women's experience in feminist theology. This work is self-consciously located at the juncture of contemporary theology and contemporary feminist theory, and uses a conversational method to examine proposals in Christology that are aspects of more comprehensive/systematic feminist constructive theologies. Contents: Preface; Introduction; PART I: THE FEMINIST CHRISTOLOGICAL PROBLEM. Toward an Adequate Feminist Christology: Methodology. PART II: THE RELATION OF WOMEN'S EXPERIENCE TO CHRISTOLOGY. The Construction of Women's Experience in Feminist Theory and Theology; Resistance and Transformation as Religious Experience; The Relation of Women's Experience to Christology. PART III: TOWARD CONTEMPORARY FEMINIST CHRISTOLOGY. The Paradigmatic and Prophetic Christ; The Decisive Representation of Self-Giving Love; The Revelation of God to Us; Christ, Mutuality, and Justice; Wisdom-Logos Christology in Feminist Perspective; The Re-presentation of Renaissance and Transformation; Bibliography; Index.

Author : Teresa Elwes
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0551025727

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Women's Voices by Teresa Elwes Pdf

Author : Russell,Russell, David
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0664229239

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Dictionary of Feminist Theology by Russell,Russell, David Pdf

Providing a tool for all who wish to learn about the growing fields of womanist, mujerista, Asian feminist, and white Euroamerican feminist studies in religion, this dictionary furnishes a pluralistic approach to feminist theologies, guiding readers who are interested in all areas of Christian theology as they relate to feminism.

Author : Johanna H. Stuckey
Publisher : Inanna Publications & Education
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215467221

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Women's Spirituality by Johanna H. Stuckey Pdf

This book comes directly out of women's grassroots efforts to understand and transform their spiritual traditions. It is a comprehensive account of the discussions, arguments, perspectives and approaches of contemporary women in Canada toward spirituality and the monotheistic religions. The author presents a concise history of each religion, discusses normative practices and focuses on the roles, rituals and rights of contemporary women as they accommodate to and deal with their respective religions. It deals with women's encounters with spirituality within the framework of Judaism, Christianity and Islam and outside of this framework within the new religions of contemporary Goddess worship.

Author : Kathryn Greene-McCreight
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000-03-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195351729

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Feminist Reconstructions of Christian Doctrine by Kathryn Greene-McCreight Pdf

What is the relationship between feminist theology and classical Christian theology? Is feminist theology "Christian," and if so, in what respect and to what extent? This study seeks to analyze and evaluate the relation of feminist "reconstructions" to traditional Christian teaching. Greene-McCreight uses the extent to which the biblical depiction of God is allowed to guide theological hermeneutics as a test of orthodoxy. She looks at the writings of a wide range of contemporary feminist theologians, discusses their doctrinal patterns, and demonstrates how the Bible is used in undergirding their theological reconstructions.

Author : Janice McRandal
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451494242

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Christian Docrine and the Grammar of Difference by Janice McRandal Pdf

McRandal argues that the doctrinal narrative of creation, fall, and redemption provides resources to resolve the theological impasse of difference in contemporary feminist theology. The divine economy reveals a God who enters into history and destabilizes fixed binaries and oppressive categories. As created subjects, we are sustained, affirmed, and drawn back into the Triune life, patterns present in liturgy, prayer, and practices of contemplation. The grammar of Christian faith cannot ultimately be uncovered except in prayer, opened beyond itself to a source of life and giving.

Author : Marta Frascati-Lochhead
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1998-02-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438403250

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Kenosis and Feminist Theology by Marta Frascati-Lochhead Pdf

This book addresses crucial issues that postmodern theory has raised for feminism and for feminist theology in particular. Postmodern critiques of metaphysics question whether feminism is ultimately foundationalist and essentialist, attributing an essential nature to "woman" and substituting a new metaphysical theory in place of the patriarchal foundationalism of Western thought. Marta Frascati-Lochhead develops this critique of metaphysics through a reading of the Italian philosopher, Gianni Vattimo. She shows how, through his interpretation of Nietzsche and Heidegger, Vattimo characterizes the violence of metaphysical thought and concludes that, for emancipatory thought today, "nihilism" is our "sole opportunity." Through a comparison of Vattimo and Derrida on the question of ontological difference, and with reference to Donna Haraway's feminist analysis of cyborg culture, the author demonstrates how Vattimo's perspective might inform an understanding of sexual difference. Drawing on the connection that Vattimo makes between the dissolution of metaphysics in our time and the Christian understanding of kenosis, the self-emptying of God in the incarnation of Jesus Christ, Frascati-Lochhead examines contemporary feminist theology in order to identify the kenotic movement in its thought. With specific reference to the works of Catherine Keller, Rebecca Chopp, Sallie McFague, and Rosemary Radford Ruether, she shows how contemporary feminist theology belongs to the metaphysical tradition that it would overcome while, at the same time, it moves in an emancipatory, kenotic direction.

Author : Linda D. Peacore
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781630876982

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The Role of Women's Experience in Feminist Theologies of Atonement by Linda D. Peacore Pdf

A strong critique of traditional atonement theology is found in the work of many contemporary feminist theologians. This approach, in large part, is related to the notion of women's experience--a category that is used widely within feminist theology. But what is women's experience and how does it affect feminist theology, particularly views on the atonement? The category of women's experience is pivotal to feminist theology, yet its use may lead to models of atonement that place excessive stress upon the subjective element of Christ's saving work thereby neglecting to address adequately the objective aspects of the cross. This book focuses on the methodological issues regarding the category of women's experience generally, its definition and use in feminist theology, with a more detailed analysis of its use in the context of feminist theologies of atonement. Utilizing the work of a wide variety of feminist theologians in conversation with theologies of experience, this work attempts to understand the role of women's experience as it shapes feminist views on the atonement, noting the strengths and limitations of feminist approaches to soteriology.

Author : Rebecca S. Chopp,Sheila Greeve Davaney
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0800629965

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Horizons in Feminist Theology by Rebecca S. Chopp,Sheila Greeve Davaney Pdf

By all accounts, feminist theology is at a crossroads. Even as the longstanding consensus wanes that women's experience is the source and norm of feminist theology, the specific and often contradictory experience of different groups is now highlighted, and new theoretical frameworks are being proposed. This landmark volume explores central issues of female subjectivity and feminist identity, gender and embodiment, tradition and norms, and their impact on theology. Leading thinkers in this new generation of feminist theologians rethink the central claims of feminist theology and offer proposals for the future.

Author : Anna Mercedes
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567091659

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Power For: Feminism and Christ's Self-Giving by Anna Mercedes Pdf

Contesting the feminist critique of the dangers of Christianity's self-giving ethics, this book advances a contemporary feminist christology engaging the strength of self-giving power.