Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion articles from March 2003

Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion archives from March 2003

Editors' introduction.(Editorial)
March 22, 2003... As this issue went to press, the United States was actively preparing for the war against Iraq, even though millions around the world took to the streets to demonstrate for peace on February 15, 2003. According to some peace activists, the war...

Reading archives from a postcolonial feminist perspective: "Native" bible women and the missionary ideal.
March 22, 2003... The object of this school is to give the children such education, as under the blessing of the Lord, may render them good Christian wives and mothers. --Third Report of the German Mission, in the Southern Mahratta, Canara and Malabar...

Breaking the dynamic of control: a feminist approach to economic ethics.
March 22, 2003... Feminist scholars of religion have begun to draw on the work of feminist economists in discussing economic ethics. (1) As a feminist economist, I would like to engage in this discussion from the other side. The problems of poverty, global...

Poststructuralist feminism and the problem of femininity in the Daodejing.
March 22, 2003... This article probes the feminine images in the ancient Chinese Daoist classic the Daodejing (Classic of the way and virtue) and their relationship to contemporary Western poststructuralist feminist theories on sex and gender. (1) I intend to...

Speaking out: faith-based patriarchy and the rhetoric of "choice".
March 22, 2003... How could anyone be against the idea of providing someone with a choice? How could anyone be against the idea of stable marriages and families? These seemingly simple questions form the rhetorical strategy of President George W. Bush's ongoing...

Meditations.
March 22, 2003... The Old European sacred images and symbols were never totally uprooted; these most persistent features in human history were too deeply implanted in the psyche.... The Goddess's religion went underground. Some of the old traditions,...

Joy.(From A Breviary Of Visions)(Brief Article)(Poem)
March 22, 2003... Joy She is Wisdom, my lost child self, actual daughter with sky eyes. She is Sophia. I am still giving birth to myself as she gives birth to me but it doesn't feel painless. She is Blake's Joy. She is ...

Lacrimae Rerum.(From A Breviary Of Visions)(Brief Article)(Poem)
March 22, 2003... Lacrimae Rerum The tearfulness of things has entered my bones. Why? I cannot recall. Some heartbreak or other. Many times since in times of greater heartbreak no tears at all. These not-tears ...

Just an Ordinary Woman.(From A Breviary Of Visions)(Brief Article)(Poem)
March 22, 2003... Just an Ordinary Woman One morning a white lamb is placed in an ordinary woman's womb, so petite, so delicate no one notices. So it might have been with Mary, sensing the black hooves pricking...

Crosswise.(From A Breviary Of Visions)(Brief Article)(Poem)
March 22, 2003... Crosswise Blast of vision, who can describe a living cross? Who would believe that pieces of you like shards of stained glass have melted into my bloodstream? A river falling uphill, a reversing...

Night of Ecstasy.(From A Breviary Of Visions)(Brief Article)(Poem)
March 22, 2003... Night of Ecstasy Who dares speak of a ravishment so far from rape one needs new words? Origen originated the discourse, patristic commentary on the Song of Songs. Bernard, Catherine, Teresa, help me now! ...

Phaedrus.(From A Breviary Of Visions)(Brief Article)(Poem)
March 22, 2003... Phaedrus You do not understand this revealing. Years and years will pass before you have the faintest perception of its significance. Nevertheless, you must hold on to it. Your service is a descent. Starts...

Dancing with My Black Mother.(From A Breviary Of Visions)(Brief Article)(Poem)
March 22, 2003... Dancing with My Black Mother The darkness in her broad face sequesters slavery's sorrows as if drawn straight up from Egypt's land packed like a bowl of sugar sweet, soft, and dark. Black Madonna, rock me...

Let Your Yes Be Yes.(From A Breviary Of Visions)(Brief Article)(Poem)
March 22, 2003... Let Your Yes Be Yes How often the idiot debater gets a toehold! Pros and cons, If this... then that.... Reasons good and bad contend in the Cartesian head. Or Rodin's thinker bends the body ...

Meeting at the well: multiculturalism and Jewish feminism.(Editorial)
March 22, 2003... Introduction In ancient Near Eastern cultures, women from all families and peoples gathered at the common well to draw water for their homes and animals. Often wells were sites of contestation between peoples in need. Perhaps as often they...

Dealing with difference without and within.
March 22, 2003... At a session titled "Appropriation and Reciprocity in Womanist/Mujerista/Feminist Work" held at the 1991 annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, in Kansas City, Missouri, several panelists struggled with the question of how to give...

My father's riddle, or conflict and reciprocity in the multicultural (Jewish) self.
March 22, 2003... When I was fourteen, my father played a game with me. He said he was going to ask me a question, and as long as I answered spontaneously with the first three things that came to mind, the riddle would tell me the truth. This was the question...

Pastel meetings.
March 22, 2003... I call them pastels because they were soft and pale and at the time did not stand out as the strong moments of change they were. Mayfair Mansions This is the meeting of escape from slavery. The cool air blows from the Potomac River...

A common language between East and West.
March 22, 2003... "What the Hell Is a Syrian Jew?" In this multicultural age, I have found it fashionable to be a Syrian Jew. Jews of European descent have been fascinated with stories of my community and especially the fact that I left it to become the...

Multiculturalism, women's studies, anti-Judaism.
March 22, 2003... Multiculturalism and women's studies have influenced the study of Christian origins much as did the historical-critical method in the discipline's previous generation. Historical investigation broke the hegemony of theologically based,...