Is there a future for feminist theology? (Sheffield Academic, 1999)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
From isolation to integration? New directions in gender and religion - Diane M. Collier and Deborah F. Sawyer -- - Part I. Text and her-story revisited -- - The image of God and the human being in women's counter-tradition - Elisabeth Gössmann -- - Gender trouble in Galatia? Paul and the rethinking of difference - Brigitte Kahl -- - A feminist critical reading of the ecclesiology of 'Lumen Gentium' - Natalie Watson -- - Redressing the balance, transforming the art : new theoretical approaches in religion and gender history - Sue Morgan -- - Part II. New directions for the new millennium -- - Feminist theologies in contemporary contexts : a provisional assessment - Ursula King -- - Global sisterhood or wicked stepsisters : why don't girls with god-mothers get invited to the ball? - Tina Beattie -- - Women's nature and the feminization of theology - Sally Alsfrod -- - Monotheism in contemporary feminist goddess religion : a betrayal of early thealogical non-realism? - Melissa Raphael -- - 'The many-named queen of all' : thealogy and the concept of the goddess - Beverley Clack -- - Christian manliness unmanned : some problems and challenges in the study of masculinity and religion in nineteenth-and twentieth-century Western society - Sean Gill -- - Sex slaves : rethinking 'complementarity' after I Corinthians 7.3-4 - Gerard Loughlin -- - Has feminist theology a viable long-term future? - Ruth Page -- - Feminist theology -- out of the ghetto? - Linda Woodhead
This collection was conceived at a time of apparent crisis within the academy of feminist theology. During the last two decades feminist theology has provided a critique of religious-and in particular Christian-institutions, scriptures, symbols and rituals. But as we reach the new millennium, the question needs to be asked: has this project of analysis and reconstruction based upon feminist principles run its natural course? These contributions answer this question through a reappraisal of feminist theology's achievements and by exploring the diverse possibilities for its future within the broader category of gender and religion