Feminist New Testament Studies Global and Future Perspectives

by Wicker, Kathleen O'Brien; Dube, Musa W.; Spencer Miller, Althea

• ISBN13: 9781403968715
• ISBN10: 1403968713
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-01
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This volume is an engaging and provocative collection of essays on contemporary feminist biblical studies. Drawing upon their own social, cultural, and religious backgrounds and experiences, contributors read the New Testament as feminists, placing it in the context of globalization. These biblical interpretations cast gender, race, class, and power relationships as issues inherent in both the content and context of scripture. Calling into question feminist social engagement that does not extend beyond academic halls, churches, and Christians, Feminist New Testament Studies offers new directions for future research and teaching in feminist biblical studies.

Author Biography

Kathleen O'Brien Wicker is Professor Emerita of Religious Studies, Scripps College and Adjunct Professor, Claremont Graduate University. Althea Spencer Miller is Adjunct Professor, Scripps College. Musa W. Dube is Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Botswana.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Foreword	ix
Foreword	xi
Preface and Acknowledgments	xiii
List of Contributors	xv
Introduction	1	(16)
Kathleen O'Brien Wicker
1. Feminist Pedagogies: Implications of a Liberative Praxis	17	(24)
Althea Spencer Miller
Conversation One: Europe and North America	41	(72)
2. The Power of the Word: Charting Critical Global Feminist Biblical Studies	43	(20)
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
3. Globalization, Transnational Feminisms, and the Future of Biblical Critique	63	(16)
Elizabeth A. Castelli
4. Response: Globalization, Transnational Feminisms, and the Future of Biblical Critique	79	(6)
Sheila Briggs
5. The Challenge of "Blackness" for Rearticulating the Meaning of Global Feminist New Testament Interpretation	85	(18)
Gay L. Byron
6. Response: Paradoxes of Positionality as the Key to Feminist New Testament Studies	103	(6)
Karen Jo Torjesen
7. Reflections on Conversation One	109	(6)
Sonya Gravlee, Erin Jacklin, and Prinny Stephens
Conversation Two: Asia and Latin America	113	(62)
8. My Journey as a Latin American Feminist New Testament Scholar	115	(16)
Aida Besançon Spencer
9. Response: A Framework Toward Solidarity and Justice	131	(6)
Elizabeth Conde-Frazier
10. Biblical Studies in the Twenty-First Century: A Japanese/Asian Feminist Glimpse	137	(14)
Hisako Kinukawa
11. Response: An Asian Buddhist Response to a Japanese Feminist Glimpse of Biblical Studies in the Twenty-First Century	151	(8)
Zhiru
12. Feminist Theologies in Latin America	159	(12)
Rosemary Radford Ruether
13. Reflections on Conversation Two	171	(4)
Holly Hight and Lydia Sohn
Conversation Three: Africa and the Diaspora	175	(89)
14. Rahab is Hanging Out a Red Ribbon: One African Woman's Perspective on the Future of Feminist New Testament Scholarship	177	(26)
Musa W. Dube
15. Response: A Perilous Passage From Scarlet Cord to Red Ribbon	203	(6)
Isabel Balseiro
16. Lucy Bailey Meets the Feminists	209	(30)
Althea Spencer Miller
17. Response: Lucy Bailey, "Likkle but Tallawah"	239	(6)
Lincoln E. Galloway
18. Signifying on Scriptures: An African Diaspora Proposal for Radical Readings	245	(14)
Vincent L. Wimbush
19. Reflections on Conversation Three	259	(5)
Noelle Champagne, Filiberto Nolasco Gomez, and Katrina Van Heest
Index of Proper Names	264	(3)
Index of Ancient Sources	267