Searching for the Future in the Past

Inclusive and progressive theological and religious perspectives have an important and distinctive contribution to make to an analysis of the critical issues facing women-identified persons in the 21st century . This incisive collection of essays recovers the missing theological voices, grounded in those religious communities and traditions, which gender and sexuality studies often overlook. Feminist theologies have, from their beginnings, aspired to be the communal production of women-identified persons who critically reflect on their experiences in the contexts of culture, social standpoint, religious practices and beliefs, and imagination of the Feminine Divine. Pae and Talvacchia draw from this heritage to engage the critical issues of today to create new perspectives. They create an intellectual and discursive space where feminist theologians in all of their diversity renew and reclaim the rich legacies of the feminist theological tradition through inter-generational, racially diverse, and transnational conversation.>

Auteur

Keun-joo Christine Pae is Associate Professor of Religion/Ethics and Women's and Gender Studies at Denison University, USA.

Kathleen T. Talvacchia is an Independent Scholar based in New York, USA. She was previously Associate Professor of Ministry and Theology at Union Theological Seminary, USA, and Associate Dean of Academic and Student Affairs at New York University Graduate School of Arts and Science, USA

Contenu

Introduction: Why Renew Feminist Theologies?

**Part One: The Praxis of Embodied Living

Chapter One:
Can Feminist Theology be Queer? (Kathleen T. Talvacchia, Independent Scholar, USA)

Chapter Two:
Reproductive Justice (Toni M. Bond, Collective Power for Reproductive Justice, USA)

Chapter Three:
Challenging the Notion of Presumptive Motherhood (Margaret D. Kamitsuka, Oberlin College, USA)

Chapter Four:
Policing Black Womanhood: Sin, Respectability, and Abolitionist Sanctuaries (Nikia Smith Robert, Abolitionist Sanctuary, USA)

Chapter Five:
A Tale of Two Marys (Charlene Sinclair, Centre for Community Change, USA; Union Theological Seminary, USA)

Chapter Six:
Disabilities Justice (Heike Peckruhn, Eastern Mennonite University, USA)

Part 2: The Praxis of Living Relationally

Chapter Seven:
Traveling Between Andean Mountains and White Doves: Spiritual Rhythms of Runa Feminisms (Monica A. Maher, First Church in Cambridge, USA and Samay Canamar M., Runas Feminist Collective, Ecuador)

Chapter Eight:
An Embodied Feminist Theology of Peace as Radical Praxis (K. Christine Pae, Dennison University, USA)

Chapter Nine:
Bridging Ecofeminism, Religion, and the Decological Path Forward (Elaine Nogueria-Godsey, Drew Theological School, USA)

Chapter Ten:
Re-membering Interdependency (Esther Parajuli, Lexington Theological Seminary, USA)

Chapter Eleven:
Queer Intimacies and Art as the Necessary Work of the Soul (Su Yon Pak, Union Theological Seminary, USA and Alicia R. Forde, Unitarian Universalist Association, USA)

Conclusion

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