Women, Writing, Theology: Transforming a Tradition of Exclusion - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1602583765 ISBN 13: 9781602583764

Publisher: Baylor University Press, 2012

Synopsis

Women's theology has traditionally been pushed to the margins; it is "spirituality" or "mysticism" rather than theology proper. Theology from women has been transmitted orally, recorded by men as sayings or in hagiographies, or passed on as "stealth theology" in poems, hymns, or practices. In the past forty years, women have claimed theology for themselves and others as womanists, feminists, mujeristas , Asian, third-world, disabled, and queer women. Yet in most academic and ecclesial theology, the contributions of women skirt the borders of the written tradition. This unique volume asks about the conditions of women writing theology. How have women historically justified their writing practices? What internal and external constraints shape their capacity to write? What counts as theology, and who qualifies as a theologian? And what does it mean for women to enter a tradition that has been based, in part, on their exclusion? These essays explore such questions through historical investigations, theoretical analyses, and contemporary constructions.

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Review:

The collection is both insightful and interesting; each contributor successfully articulates an appreciation of both the violent prohibitions and transformative possibilities of women writing theology.

--Emily Pennington, University of Chester "Theological Book Review "

The picture that emerges from Women, Writing, Theology is one of the conscience in its purest form, and all the different patterns created by each individual following hers. Any reader who's ever had the sense that something has been left out of the official story of their faith will find some treasure in the excavation projects led by these diverse authors.

--Conscience

Women, Writing, Theology is a wellspring of consolation and hope for feminist theologians.

--Susan Abraham, Harvard Divinity School "Journal of the American Academy of Religion "

About the Author:

Emily A. Holmes is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion and Philosophy at Christian Brothers University. She previously served as co-chair of the Women and Religion section of the Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion. She lives in Memphis, Tennessee. Wendy Farley is Professor of Religion and Ethics at Emory University. Her previous publications include The Wounding and Healing of Desire: Weaving Heaven and Earth and Eros for the Other: Retaining Truth in a Pluralistic World. She lives in Decatur, Georgia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Baylor University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1602583765
• ISBN 13: 9781602583764
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 327
• Editor: Holmes Emily A., Farley Wendy