Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion articles from March 2005

Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion archives from March 2005

Editors' introduction.
March 22, 2005... The contributions to this dynamic and variegated issue focus for the most part on issues in feminist political analysis and practice. They explore how the political shapes feminist scholarship and women's position in religion. The first three...

The political transformation of gender traditions at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
March 22, 2005... In recent years the Western Wall in Jerusalem has become a site of conflict and contention between liberal and feminist Jews, on the one hand, and strictly religious Jews, on the other hand, over the permissible roles for women in the religious...

A million Shaktis rising: Pongala, a women's festival in Kerala, India.
March 22, 2005... Each spring, Thiruvananthapuram, (1) the capital city of Kerala, India, shuts down for a day while more than a million women of many religions, communities, (2) and classes line the streets with their pots to cook porridge for Attukal Amma...

Jane Schaberg, Raymond E. Brown, and the problem of the illegitimacy of Jesus.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2005... Jane Schaberg's The Illegitimacy of Jesus was published in 1987, fifteen years after Raymond E. Brown's "The Problem of the Virginal Conception of Jesus." (1) Brown's essay was his inaugural professorial lecture at Union Theological Seminary in...

The Christian right's discourse on gender and the Bible.
March 22, 2005... On March 11, 2004, President George W. Bush spoke to the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) during its annual convention in Colorado Springs. An organization of 30 million Americans, the NAE has given full support to Bush, who spoke via...

Hopscotch.(In a Different Voice)(Poem)
March 22, 2005... Hopscotch Throw the rock. Don't hit the lines. Jump in the squares. Pick up the rock. Bop on home. Simple rules. Simple sounds. Taking turns. Being careful. It is a girls' game, this...

Blue Sky.(In a Different Voice)(Poem)
March 22, 2005... Blue Sky (after viewing Guillermo Kuitca's Children's Corner at the Frist Center for the Arts, Nashville, 3/24/02) 56" by 116", and most of the canvas is blue sky. There are three beds with no one in ...

The Past.(In a Different Voice)
March 22, 2005... (after a fourteenth-century painting) Someone painted this for us, this woman leaving her infant at the city gate. Someone today has written a book and included this painting. So we know. The child seems to be slipping out of her...

The Girl Who Wanted to Speak Other Languages.(In a Different Voice)(Poem)
March 22, 2005... The Girl Who Wanted to Speak Other Languages Since she was born on a farm, she wanted to speak cow, especially when they lay in sunshine on the distant hill beyond the oil well. Then she wanted to speak wild...

Invocation.(In a Different Voice)(Poem)
March 22, 2005... Invocation Let it be the middle of nowhere, at the heart of nothing but wheat fields. Let there be farmers swinging their arms, broadcasting seed. Let us see the terrible boredom of oxen and small-town girls. Let...

Magdalena.(In a Different Voice)(Poem)
March 22, 2005... Magdalena 1. Because the damp, blue darkness that unborn morning seemed safer than daylight, with its gamblers, executioners, and thirsts, I walked out into it, alone. I risked my life on...

Cante Jondo.(In a Different Voice)(Poem)
March 22, 2005... Cante Jondo 1 Andalucia the name comes apart in the speaking walk run stroll in the light carriers cante jondo deep song emerges from the highest and the lowest places all at once held together ...

Feminist studies in religion and the*logy in-between nationalism and globalization.(Roundtable Discussion)
March 22, 2005... Patriotic nationalism is the most powerful discourse of the day, as the flags on cars and houses and the pins and bumper stickers "in support of our troops" amply document. At the same time, the rhetoric of the most recent presidential campaign...

Fantastic coherence.(Living It Out)
March 22, 2005... When our experience pivots into coherence from incoherence, such insight arrives as a gift, a breakthrough erupting from heretofore scattered fragments under the power of new connections, both to ourselves and to others. When such fantastic...