Preface
Contributors
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
Women's Voice in Genesis?
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
Index of Scripture References
Index of Authors and Editors
Index of Subjects
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. 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.
"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 University "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 School
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