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rebelion to the performance: seeking authenticity in all things

14 February, 2007 in Feminism, Life, Politics by irobyn | 2 comments

Several years ago I was a mentor for a Wesleyan institute called “Faith Passage.”  One of the students that I mentored during that year-long program is now a student at Dartmouth College.  We have cultivated/grown a friendship. 

What I have always appreciated in our relationship, now friendship, is how honesty and authenticity has been a virtue OR an important element.  When my now friend was a student in the program, we had discussions around politics, theology, and sought to be engaged in faith-related discussions.  My friend and I have journeyed with one another, and I have sought to partner my now friend in some of the “big” questions of life:  What does it mean to believe in God?  Is it possible to believe in God today?  And if so, who and what is God and how do we know?  I offered Existentialism as a narrative tool, theology as a practical framework, and feminism[s] as on-going tools of resistance.  We had longs discussions during this year-long program!  Our talks continued through the year and even now as my friend is a student at Dartmouth.

We have continued our correspondence and have partnered one another in the discussions of friendship and have sought mutuality and authenticity in all things.  One of the themes to our discussions has been the question of human rights, peace, war, politics, gender discrimination/gender practice, sex discrimination/sexual practice, and the like.  It seems as though I am living in the theories of feminisms and gender constructions as my friend is transitioning into what my friend terms as more of a trans-identity.  It is my hope that my friend and I will have an opportunity to engage critically in the creation of some essays which will privilege critical analysis and critical evaluation and yet essays that will also privilege as well as exist in between the academy’s critical theories and our own personal narratives.

I want to undo gender–that static and limited contruction that is ever more limiting.  As a feminist liberation theologian, perhaps the socio-analytic tools will be cross trans-disciplinary.  Judith Butler and Mary Hunt…what do you say Kris?

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Celebrating the History and Future of Feminist Contextual Theologies

8 February, 2007 in Books, Feminism by irobyn | No comments

Celebrating the History—and Future—of Feminist Contextual Theologies

Minneapolis (January 18, 2007) – In Feminist Theologies: Legacy and Prospect, Rosemary Radford Ruether and leading theologians provide a brief and informed survey of women’s studies in religion, highlighting the emergence of contextual feminist theologies.

This volume and its illustrious contributors trace the rapidly evolving feminist theological scene over the last generation and highlight specific contributions that have been and are being made on many fronts.

Thirty-fifth-anniversary celebrations of pioneering work in women’s studies in religion at the Center for Women and Religion, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, recently occasioned new reflection on the history and future of feminist theologies in many cultural and ethnic contexts around the world, including Asian, Hispanic, North American feminist, and womanist.

Like the Center itself, this volume offers enlightening history, bracing analysis, and thoughtful proposals for the Christian, the contributions also assayed feminist initiatives from Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism. Along with the editor Rosemary Radford Ruether, contributors include:


Rita Nakashima Brock

Sandy Boucher

Peggy H. Cleveland

Pamela Cooper-White

Marcia Falk

Mary E. Hunt

Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan

Stephanie Y. Mitchem

Nancy Pineda-Madrid

Nayereh Tohidi

Mary Evelyn Tucker


Contents

Introduction—Rosemary Radford Ruether

  1. At the Center: Rosemary Radford Ruether, Peggy H. Cleveland, Pamela Cooper-White, Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan
  2. Pacific, Asian and North American-Asian Women’s Theologies: Rita Nakashima Brock
  3. Latinas Writing Theology at the Threshold of the 21st Century: Nancy Pineda-Madrid
  4. Womanist Theology and Ethics: Stephanie Y. Mitchem
  5. The Flowering of Feminist-Womanist Theologies: Mary E. Hunt
  6. Muslim Feminism and Islamic Reformation: Nayereh Tohidi
  7. Buddhist Feminist Scholarship: Sandy Boucher
  8. Women, Religion, and the Ecological Crisis: Mary Evelyn Tucker
  9. Prayer as Poetry, Poetry as Prayer: Marcia Falk

Rosemary Radford Ruether is one of the most important theologians of the last forty years. Currently she serves as Carpenter Professor of Feminist Theology, Berkeley, and as Visiting Scholar at the Claremont Graduate University and School of Theology. Author or editor of 42 books, she wrote most recently Integrating Ecofeminisim, Globalization, and World Religions (2005) and Goddess and the Divine Feminine: A Western Religious History (2005). Among her Fortress Press titles are Women and Redemption  (1998) and Visionary Women (2002).

Feminist Theologies: Legacy and Prospect

Edited by Rosemary Radford Ruether

Item Number: 978-0-8006-3894-8

Price: $20.00 / CAN $24.00 / UK £11.99
Specs: 5.5″ x 8.5″, paperback, 176 pages

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