From Isolation to Intergration

211 Pages·1999·10.698 MB·English

by  Deborah Sawyer, Diane M. Collier

Studies in Theology and Sexuality, 4
Series Editors
Elizabeth Stuart Alison R Webster Gerard Loughlin
Editorial Board
Marcella Althaus Reid, Robert Beckford, J Michael Clark, Gillian Cloke,
Beverly Harrison, Renée Hill, Alison Millbank. Ann Pellegrini,
Kwok Pui Lan, Virginia Ramey Mollenkott, Peter Selby
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Is There a
Future^
Feminist Theology?
Edited by Deborah F. Sawyer and Diane M. Collier
Sheffield
Academic Press
Copyright © 1999 Sheffield Academie Press
Published by Sheffield Academic Press Ltd
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19KingfieldRoad
Sheffield SI 19AS
England
Printed on acid-free paper in Great Britain
by Bookcraft Ltd
Midsomer Norton, Bath
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available
from the British Library
ISBN 1-85075-963-4
1-85075-979-0 pbk
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments 7
List of Contributors 8
Diane M. Collier and Deborah F. Sawyer
From Isolation to Integration? New Directions in Gender
and Religion 11
PARTI
TEXT AND HER-STORY REVISITED
Elisabeth Gössmann
The Image of God and the Human Being in Women's
Counter-Tradition 26
Brigitte Kahl
Gender Trouble in Galatia? Paul and the Rethinking
of Difference 57
Natalie Watson
A Feminist Critical Reading of the Ecclesiology
of 'Lumen Gentium' 74
Sue Morgan
Redressing the Balance, Transforming the Art:
New Theoretical Approaches in Religion and Gender History 84
PART II
NEW DIRECTIONS FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM
Ursula King
Feminist Theologies in Contemporary Contexts:
A Provisional Assessment 100
6 Is There a Future for Feminist Theology?
Tina Beanie
Global Sisterhood or Wicked Stepsisters: Why Don't Girls
with God-Mothers Get Invited to the Ball? 115
Sally Alsford
Women's Nature and the Feminization of Theology 126
Melissa Raphael
Monotheism in Contemporary Feminist Goddess Religion:
A Betrayal of Early Thealogical Non-Realism? 139
Beverley Clack
'The Many-Named Queen of All': Thealogy and the Concept
of the Goddess 150
Sean Gill
Christian Manliness Unmanned: Some Problems and Challenges
in the Study of Masculinity and Religion in Nineteenth- and Twen-
tieth-Century Western Society 160
Gerard Loughlin
Sex Slaves: Rethinking 'Complementarity' after
1 Corinthians 7. 3-4 173
Ruth Page
Has Feminist Theology a Viable Long-Term Future? 193
Linda Woodhead
Feminist Theology—Out of the Ghetto? 198
Index of Authors 207
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The editors would like to thank the Goethe Institute, Manchester, UK,
and in particular Richard Schneider, for generously supporting the col-
loquium from which this volume has evolved. We would also like to
thank our colleagues in the Department of Religious Studies at Lan-
caster University and all those who participated in the colloquium for
helping to make it such a successful and stimulating venture.
CONTRIBUTORS
Sally Aisford, School of Humanities, Philosophy and Theology,
University of Greenwich, UK.
Tina Beattie, Department of Theology and Religious Studies,
University of Bristol, UK.
Beverley Clack, Department of Theology and Religious Studies,
Roehampton Institute, UK.
Diane M. Collier, Department of Religious Studies, Lancaster
University, UK.
Sean Gill, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University
of Bristol, UK.
Elisabeth Gossmann, University of Munich, Germany, and University
of Tokyo, Japan.
Brigitte Kahl, Union Theological Seminary, New York, USA.
Ursula King, Department of Theology and Religious Studies,
University of Bristol, UK.
Gerard Loughlin, Department of Religious Studies, University of
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
Sue Morgan, School of Religion and Theology, Chichester Institute,
UK.
Ruth Page, Faculty of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, UK.
Contributors 9
Melissa Raphael, Centre for the Study of Religion, Cheltenham and
Gloucester College, UK.
Deborah F. Sawyer, Department of Religious Studies, Lancaster
University, UK.
Natalie Watson, Cuddesdon Theological College, Oxford, UK.
Linda Woodhead, Department of Religious Studies, Lancaster
University, UK.