Faith and feminism : ecumenical essays / edited by B. Diane Lipsett and Phyllis Trible.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lipsett, B. Diane (Barbara Diane), editor.

Trible, Phyllis, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women and religion.

Feminism--Religious aspects.

Feminism.

Bible and feminism.

Physical Description:

xiii, 273 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Louisville, Kentucky : Westminster John Knox Press, [2014]

Contents:

Testimonies in tongues / B. Diane Lipsett and Phyllis Trible

The dilemma of dominion / Phyllis Trible

From pawn to selfhood: the character Leah / Wilma Ann Bailey

Folklore, feminism, and the ambiguity of power: women's voice in Genesis? / Susan Niditch

The journey of a girl who talks back: Mark's Syrophoenician woman / Hisako Kinukawa

Sacraments of friendship: embodied love in the gospel of John / Gail R. O'Day

Learning in the presence of the other: feminisms and the interreligious encounter / Mary C. Boys

Speaking from behind the veil: does Islamic feminism exist? / Hibba Abugideiri

The emergence of Muslim American feminisms / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad

Sarah and Hagar: a feminist European perspective on actual controversies / Ulrike Bechmann

The woman of Jericho: dramatization as feminist hermeneutics / Ulrike Bechmann

Ecological theology in women's voices / Elizabeth A. Johnson

Daily life challenges as the criterion for biblical and feminist theological hermeneutics / Ivone Gebara

Do you understand what you are reading? African women's reading of the Bible and the ethos of contemporary Christianity in Africa / Mercy Amba Oduyoye

With running mouth and hands on hips: Sapphire and the moral imagination / Emilie M. Townes

Why do men need the Goddess? Male creation of female religious symbols / Rosemary Radford Ruether.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780664239695

0664239692

OCLC:

883510274