Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion articles from March 2008

Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion archives from March 2008

Editors' introduction.(Editorial)
March 22, 2008... The tasks of discovering effective tools that aid in deconstructing male-centered, female-disempowering frames of thought remain central to the work of feminist scholars in religion. As in other fields, we utilize methodologies and practices...

Between Muslim Women and the Muslimwoman.
March 22, 2008... When she fuses the words Muslim and woman to create the Muslimwoman, miriam cooke abruptly brings to attention the practice of collapsing two components of identity--religion and gender--into a "singular identity." The Muslim woman is a...

Muslim women and the politics of representation.
March 22, 2008... In her essay "Deploying the Muslimwoman," miriam cooke raises a number of important questions and issues, the most important of which is a discussion of the category "Muslimwoman" as a transnational imaginary enabling the production of new...

Chosen moments: mediation and direct experience in the life of The classical Tamil Saint Karaikkal Ammaiyar.
March 22, 2008... Familiar patterns of interpretation can quickly tame a new text; that is their blessing and their curse. I had occasion to reflect on this issue of domestication-the moment at which a pattern of interpretation shifts its burden of illumination...

Lost in translation: writing back from the margins.
March 22, 2008... miriam cooke's article raises some important ongoing questions about how the category Muslimwoman is being constituted, contested, and lived. The dynamics associated with naming and inhabiting this identity through the binaries of Orientalist...

Rejoinder to "Muslimwoman" responses.
March 22, 2008... There are many situations, conditions, and identities that we recognize but cannot name. The lack of a name does not matter until it does; at that point, it becomes urgent to articulate succinctly what before had been dimly felt and poorly...

Living on the border.(Speaking Out)
March 22, 2008... This past November, the American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature (AAR/SBL) annual meeting took place in San Diego. In the wake of that event, I want to reflect with readers of the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion...

Christian imperialism and the transatlantic slave trade.(Cutting Edge)
March 22, 2008... The transatlantic trade in Africans was founded on Christianity. Religion was key in motivating Prince Henry of Portugal, later called Henry, "the Navigator" (1394-1460), to put in motion Europe's aggressive and ruthless expeditions to Africa....

Person in place: possession and power at an Indian Islamic Saint Shrine.
March 22, 2008... PERSON IN PLACE: POSSESSION AND POWER AT AN INDIAN ISLAMIC SAINT SHRINE Carla Bellamy 2007 Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza New Scholar Award Winner Since the popularization of Michel Foucault in the Western academy and, for those who...

Goddess Tara: silence and secrecy on the path to enlightenment.
March 22, 2008... GODDESS TARA: SILENCE AND SECRECY ON THE PATH TO ENLIGHTENMENT Susan S. Landesman The enlightened mind that perceives reality from an ultimate viewpoint transcends notions of gender, according to the Buddha's teachings. Based upon a...

Introduction: feminist theory and the study of South Asian religions.(Special Section: SOUTH ASIAN RELIGIONS)
March 22, 2008... The essays in this section provide examples of scholars engaging feminist theory with materials from South Asian religious traditions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam. The papers were originally presented on a panel, "Feminist Theory...

Afterword: feminist theory, scholars, and the study of South Asian religions.
March 22, 2008... The arguments put forth in these articles focus on variations of a single question: What do feminist approaches bring to the study of South Asian religions? (1) The short answer is that they bring a depth, sophistication, and several challenges...

Annunciation.(In a Different Voice)(Poem)
March 22, 2008... Annunciation Mary might have taken her books, kissed them, buried them away in, say, a blue duffel bag. Even that book on her knee. Psalms. Poems. Her diary, book of hours. The choir book open on the lectern....

The Kingdom of this World.(In a Different Voice)(Poem)
March 22, 2008... The Kingdom of This World Tonight I'm trapped in a movie theater, stuck in a film about human evil while the earth's shadow moves over the moon. It's a grainy film, a young woman's dead body, up close a bloodied...

"You are brave but you are a woman in the eyes of men": Augusta E. Stetson's Rise and Fall in the Church of Christ, Scientist.
March 22, 2008... Newly empowered public women were the mainstay of Christian Science at the turn of the twentieth century, but sonte of them becante an obstacle to its founder Mary Baker Eddy's plan to elintinate excessive "personality" and place her movement...

Deploying the Muslimwoman.(Roundtable Discussion: RELIGION, GENDER, AND THE MUSLIMWOMAN)
March 22, 2008... In Paris, Istanbul, Jakarta, Amsterdam, and Cairo, Muslim women are recalling anxieties that go back to the colonial era, when Muslim fundamentalists, Orientalists, and Muslim and non-Muslim states were arguing about what was right or wrong for...

Beyond the hijab as lodestone.(Roundtable Discussion: RELIGION, GENDER, AND THE MUSLIMWOMAN)
March 22, 2008... I was invited by the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion editors to participate in this roundtable and to comment on miriam cooke's article "Deploying the Muslimwoman." What follows is my response to her thought-provoking piece. ...