Women, ritual, and power : placing female imagery of God in Christian worship / Elizabeth Ursic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ursic, Elizabeth, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in Christianity.

Femininity of God.

Worship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : SUNY Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Many Christians do not know the Bible contains female images of God because they have never heard nor seen them in church. In Women, Ritual, and Power, Elizabeth Ursic gives the reader insight into four Christian communities that worship God with female imagery, both as a worship focus and a community identity. These Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, and Catholic congregations operate within their established church denominations and are led by either ordained Protestant ministers or vowed Catholic sisters. Because expressing God-as-She can expose strident claims for maintaining God-as-He, this book shows not only how patriarchy continues to operate in churches today, but also how it is being successfully challenged through liturgy.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Strategic Emplacement""; ""Female Imagery of God in the Bible and Historical Uses""; ""Sophia Feminist Theology: Images of God and Women�s Equality""; ""Strategic Emplacement of Female Imagery in Christian Worship""; ""Chapters and Significance""; ""1. The Resource of Leadership: Wisdom�s Feast and United Methodism""; ""Discovering Sophia""; ""The Challenges of Pastoring""; ""The Sermon: A Public Turning Point""; ""Publicizing Sophia""; ""The Backlash Begins""; ""Taking Sides and Going National""; ""The Formal Charge of Heresy""

""A Wider Backlash at the 1993 Re-Imagining Conference""""Conclusion""; ""2. The Resource of Personal Prayer Experience: Daughters of Wisdom Catholic Sisters""; ""The Daughters of Wisdom Before Vatican II""; ""Vatican II: Changing Images of God and Religious Life""; ""Wisdom Sophia: (Re) Discovering a Sense of Purpose""; ""Wisdom Leadership Initiatives""; ""Experiences of Wisdom Sophia""; ""Mary, Sophia, and the Religious Marketplace""; ""Evangelizing Wisdom Sophia""; ""Conclusion""; ""3. The Resource of Community: Motherhood of Godand the Church of Scotland""; ""Becoming an Asterisk""

""The Prayer That Shook the Woman�s Guild""""The Motherhood of God Theological Report""; ""Hymnals and Hymnody""; ""Reflections from Current Candidates for Ministry""; ""Echoes of the Motherhood of God""; ""Conclusion""; ""4. The Resource of Evangelization: Lutheran herchurch""; ""The Call to Ministry and Mission""; ""Growing a Church in the New Religious Marketplace""; ""Evangelizing on a Shoestring""; ""Remembering the Goddess""; ""Ritualizing a Feminist Mission at Sunday Service""; ""Fruits of Evangelization: New Membership""; ""The Faith and Feminism Conference""

""YouTube and a Different Type of Dialogue""""The Second Conference: The Goddess and Proposition 8""; ""Conclusion""; ""Conclusion""; ""Gender and God""; ""Church Patriarchy Today""; ""Reflections on Four Resources of Strategic Emplacement""; ""1. Leadership""; ""2. Personal Prayer Experience""; ""3. Community Support""; ""4. Evangelization""; ""Strategic Emplacement and Ritual Studies""; ""Final Thoughts""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438452869

1438452861

OCLC:

892430165