Fatih and Feminisim

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Review Quotes:"This volume, edited by two scholars known for their close reading and graceful writing about religious texts, comes at an important time: when people of faith committed to the full humanity of all wo/men, but separated both by different religious traditions and by the distance between our countries and continents, need resources for igniting conversations with each other. Though it includes important work by senior scholars in Christian feminist and womanist theological circles, the contributions of the emerging scholars in these pages will do at least as much to move these conversations forward. Feminists who situate themselves within Christian communities will do well to study long and hard the contributions from Muslim feminist scholars featured here. North American readers will learn much from those who offer their contributions from the other continents. Let the conversations, contentions and disclosure go forward."--Shelly Matthews, Professor of New Testament, Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian UniversityReview Quotes:"This book offers a stunning new horizon for insights, through feminist lenses, into the meanings of religious faith and the liberating appeal of genuine moral imperatives. Scholarly and practical doors are opened by the interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, ecumenical, and interfaith conversations that are advanced by these essays. The volume as a whole is elegant and reader-friendly. It will transform the minds and hearts of those, both women and men, who enter into its riches."--Margaret A. Farley, Gilbert L. Stark Professor Emerita of Christian Ethics, Yale University Divinity SchoolTable of Contents: Chapter 1 Testimonies in Tongues "B. Diane Lipsett and Phyllis Trible" PART ONE: Biblical Studies Chapter 2 The Dilemma of Dominion "Phyllis Trible" Chapter 3 From Pawn to Selfhood: The Character Leah "Wilma Ann Bailey" Chapter 4 Folklore, Feminism, and the Ambiguity of Power "Susan Niditch" Chapter 5 The Journey of a Girl Who Talks Back: Mark's Syropheonician Woman "Hisako Kinukawa" Chapter 6 Sacraments of Friendship: Embodied Love in the Gospel of John "Gail R. O'Day" PART TWO Inter-religious Ventures Chapter 7 Learning in the Presence of the Other: Feminisms and the Interreligious Encounter "Mary C. Boys" Chapter 8 Speaking from Behind the Veil: Does Islamic Feminism Exist? "Hibba Abugideiri" Chapter 9 The Emergence of Muslim American Feminism "Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad" Chapter 10 Sarah and Hagar: A Feminist European Perspective on Actual Controversies "Ulrike Bechmann" Chapter 11 The Women of Jericho: Dramatization as Feminist Hermeneutics "Ulrike Bechmann" PART THREE Theology and Ethics Chapter 12 Ecological Theology in Women's Voices "Elizabeth A. Johnson" Chapter 13 Daily Life Challenges as the Criterion for Biblical and Feminist Theological Hermeneutics "Ivone Gebara" Chapter 14 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" Chapter 15 With Running Mouth and Hands on Hips: Saphire and the Moral Imagination "Emilie M. Townes" Chapter 16 Why Do Men Need the Goddess? Male Creation of Female Religious Symbols "Rosemary Radford Ruether" Selected Bibliography Contributor Bio:  Trible, Phyllis Phyllis Trible is Baldwin Professor Emerita of Sacred Literature at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. The author of influential works such as "God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality" and "Texts of Terror: Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives", Trible specializes in literary and rhetorical analysis of biblical texts from a feminist perspective. Contributor Bio:  Lipsett, B Diane B. Diane Lipsett is Assistant Professor of Religion at Salem College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Specializing in literary analysis of early Christian texts, Lipsett is the author of "Desiring Conversion: Hermas, Thecla, Aseneth".