Is There a Future for Feminist Theology?

by Sawyer, Deborah; Collins, Diane M.

• ISBN13: 9781850759799
• ISBN10: 1850759790
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: Sheffield Academic Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	7	(8)
List of Contributors	8	(3)
From Isolation to Integration? New Directions in Gender and Religion	11	(15)
Diane M. Collier
Deborah F. Sawyer
Part I Text and Her-Story Revisited
The Image of God and the Human Being in Women's Counter-Tradition	26	(31)
Elisabeth Gossmann
Gender Trouble in Galatia? Paul and the Rethinking of Difference	57	(17)
Brigitte Kahl
A Feminist Critical Reading of the Ecclesiology of `Lumen Gentium'	74	(10)
Natalie Watson
Redressing the Balance, Transforming the Art: New Theoretical Approaches in Religion and Gender History	84	(16)
Sue Morgan
Part II New Directions for the New Millennium
Feminist Theologies in Contemporary Contexts: A Provisional Assessment	100	(15)
Ursula King
Global Sisterhood or Wicked Stepsisters: Why Don't Girls with God-Mothers Get Invited to the Ball?	115	(11)
Tina Beattie
Women's Nature and the Feminization of Theology	126	(13)
Sally Alsford
Monotheism in Contemporary Feminist Goddess Religion: A Betrayal of Early Thealogical Non-Realism?	139	(11)
Melissa Raphael
`The Many-Named Queen of All': Thealogy and the Concept of the Goddess	150	(10)
Beverley Clack
Christian Manliness Unmanned: Some Problems and Challenges in the Study of Masculinity and Religion in Nineteenth-and Twen-tieth-Century Western Society	160	(13)
Sean Gill
Sex Slaves: Rethinking `Complementarity' after 1 Corinthians 7. 3-4	173	(20)
Gerard Loughlin
Has Feminist Theology a Viable Long-Term Future?	193	(5)
Ruth Page
Feminist Theology---Out of the Ghetto?	198	(9)
Linda Woodhead
Index of Authors	207