Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion articles from March 2007

Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion archives from March 2007

Editors' introduction.(Editorial)
March 22, 2007... This very special issue of the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion celebrates Professor Judith Plaskow's work on the occasion of her sixtieth birthday. It is appropriate that we do so because without Judith's intellectual and organizational...

To speak freely at the intersection of the personal, institutional, and scholarly.(Judith Plaskow)(Viewpoint essay)
March 22, 2007... This special section of the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion honors the more than thirty years of work that Judith Plaskow has contributed to the field. I am not sure why I was included in this group of some of the most distinguished...

Gathering wo/men in the postcolonial pacific region.(Speaking Out)
March 22, 2007... As I am writing this editorial in December 2006, thinking about how best to describe recent scholarship and local activism in the field of feminist studies in religion in the Pacific region, there has just been another military coup in Fiji,...

Feminist applications of Buddhist thought.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2007... Recent years have seen a number of writers draw upon Buddhist thought in their articulations of feminist epistemology. Koppe-drayer examines four such works-Rita Gross's Buddhism after Patriarchy: A Feminist History, Analysis, and...

Asking hard questions--learning from the wind.(Judith Plaskow)
March 22, 2007... Autumn's relentless winds have returned to Colorado, scouring the rocky saddles and saddle-colored hills of the Front Range. Once vibrant yellow, then dappled with amber and rust, the silver maples have become a lattice of barren branches,...

Erotic justice: authority, resistance, and transformation.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2007... Several years ago, I first heard Judith Plaskow talking about her research that would eventually become a chapter in the anthology Good Sex: Feminist Perspectives from the World's Religions. (1) The wheels in my mind immediately began turning...

Standing (Again) with Judith Plaskow: a selective reading of her essays.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2007... The publication of Judith Plaskow's The Coming of Lilith: Essays on Feminism, Judaism, and Sexual Ethics, 1972-2003, offers a wonderful opportunity to once again keep company with Judith Plaskow, in this case by rereading her essays in this...

Community and ambiguity: a response from a companion in the journey.(Judith Plaskow)(Critical essay)
March 22, 2007... Two themes, community and ambiguity, stand out for me in reading Judith Plaskow's collected essays in The Coming of Lilith: Essays on Feminism, Judaism, and Sexual Ethics, suggesting what is distinctive (and distinctively Jewish) in Judith's...

The coming of Lilith: a response.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2007... First, I want to say how very grateful I am to everyone who participated in this special section of the Journal, which began as a panel at the 2005 American Academy of Religion (AAR) meeting. It is a very powerful experience to hear aspects of...

In a different voice.(Poem)
March 22, 2007... Pharaoh's Daughter / King Solomon's Wife: Fragments from Her Diaries Yerra Sugarman And the king said, Divide the living child in two... (I Kings 3:25) Something resuscitates me as, once, in her orbit, her...

Pharaoh's Daughter / King Solomon's Wife: A Letter Home.(Poem)
March 22, 2007... Pharaoh's Daughter / King Solomon's Wife: A Letter Home Peace, father, is the spider-light of Solomon's kingdom branching, a web-bright net. What lies? What's true? What waits radiating silence? Now, again,...

From King Solomon's Journal: Fragment of an Unsent Letter (Date Unknown).(Poem)
March 22, 2007... From King Solomon's Journal: Fragment of an Unsent Letter (Date Unknown) Hard questions you asked me once, my Sheba, between coal and crystal and diamond. You launched me like a boat on delirious seas: I was spar, sail...

Celebrating Judith Plaskow's work.(Special Section)
March 22, 2007... INTRODUCTION The publication of The Corning of Lilith: Essays on Feminism, Judaism, and Sexual Ethics in summer 2005 was seized as a long overdue opportunity to publicly acknowledge Judith Plaskow and the tremendous contribution she has...

Besotted with Jesus.(Poem)
March 22, 2007... Besotted with Jesus Still besotted with Jesus after all these years despite the unfashionableness of such love unconscionable history of the Church sad path of pillage, persecution, crusade racism, war and rumours of...

Mary Mother.(Poem)
March 22, 2007... Mary Mother She must have seen the blunt nose of death when he set his face steadily toward Jerusalem and perhaps it was right and perhaps there was no other way Yet the sword so long impaled in her heart ...

The Gift of Tongues.(Poem)
March 22, 2007... The Gift of Tongues They said I was born with it. When I was little and the music swayed, I would shake and roll. From my mouth words frolicked like lambs. Different languages, they told me. Sometimes it...

The Husband Asks Her.(Poem)
March 22, 2007... The Husband Asks Her Why is your heart sad? Am I not more to you than ten sons? (1 Samuel 1:8) And this question makes sense to him, because he sees them still as teenagers, ...

The restorative power of sound: a Case for Communal Catharsis in Toni Morrison's Beloved.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2007... This article examines the spiritual leadership of Baby Suggs and the other women in the novel Beloved. Asserting that sound, embodied as cries and utterances, has significance that in many ways surpasses that of identifiable music, Reed...

A prophetic voice for truth.(Judith Plaskow)(Viewpoint essay)
March 22, 2007... Last spring, a new neighbor moved in across the street from me. I walked up her driveway for a cordial hello and ended up chatting for twenty minutes. We clearly connected, and she put her finger on why, once we both revealed that while we...

Escapism or engagement? Plotinus and Feminism.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2007... Neoplatonists understood philosophy to be preparation for union with ultimate reality. The resulting blend of rationality and mysticism has been seen to be otherworldly, intellectualist, and individualistic, and might seem remote from the...

Mother-love and mother-grief: South Asian Buddhist variations on a theme.(Report)
March 22, 2007... In this article, Ohnuma examines maternal love and maternal grief in premodern South Asian Buddhist texts and discusses the manner in which patriarchal religious traditions negotiate both symbols. Inasmuch as South Asian Buddhism constitutes a...