Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion articles from March 2011

Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion archives from March 2011

Editors' introduction.(Editorial)
March 22, 2011... In the middle of this issue, Patricia Monaghan's poem, "The Phenomenology of Angels," speaks "in a different voice" about fleeting visions that linger in portrait-like memories that cannot capture the moment, about the luminous power of freedom...

Envisioning a spiritualized feminist theological tradition: being the change we want to see.(ROUNDTABLE)(Viewpoint essay)
March 22, 2011... I agree with Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza that Catharina Halkes's birthday was a milestone for the feminist movement that deserved celebration. I agree, that is, now that I've looked Halkes up on the Internet. I had no idea who she was. Which...

Celebrating Our Latina Feminist Foremothers: A Response to Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
March 22, 2011... Far too often Latina feminist theology has been identified as a discourse emergent in response to Latin American Liberation theology, Euro-American Feminist theology and U.S. Latino theology. Undoubtedly, each of these has influenced Latina...

Expanding the concepts and the field: feminist liberation theology and beyond.(Roundtable)(Viewpoint essay)
March 22, 2011... As one of the organizers of Catharina Halkes's birthday celebration, I was grateful and proud that Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza honored this "festive symposium" by delivering the keynote lecture. To our surprise, she made "celebration," and...

Muslim feminist birthdays.(Roundtable)(Viewpoint essay)
March 22, 2011... I come to Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza's piece at a critical juncture in the development of U.S. Muslim feminist theology. The 1990s and early 2000s saw the flourishing of Muslim feminist theology in the pathbreaking works of such pioneering...

Celebrating Feminist Birthdays: Bringing Filiative and Affiliative Together
March 22, 2011... Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza's insightful essay reframes the meaning of celebrating feminist birthdays by showing how such celebration is in effect a feminist practice that is based on the conviction that personal is political, for "personal" is...

In the footsteps of the Buddha? Women and the Bodhisatta path in Theravada Buddhism.(Essay)
March 22, 2011... The Buddha is famously said to have declared it impossible for a woman to be a fully awakened Buddha. (1) Less well known is that Theravada commentarial tradition also declares it impossible for a woman to be a bodhisatta, a being on the path to...

Gendering Buddhism: the Miaoshan legend reconsidered.(Essay)
March 22, 2011... Instead of noninterference and specialization, there must be interference, crossing of borders and obstacles. --Edward Said (1) The twelfth-century Chinese Buddhist legend of Miaoshan is about the youngest of King Zhuangyan's three...

Literacy and power: the Shiyour as a site of subordination and empowerment for Chabad women.(Essay)
March 22, 2011... This article examines the shiyour ("lesson" in Hebrew)--an institutionalized arrangement of nonformal education for adult Jewish women in the Chasidic Chabad community. (1) Although much has been written about women and Chasidism both in...

Women's working poverty: feminist and religious alliances in the Living Wage Movement.(Viewpoint essay)
March 22, 2011... The idea for the Atlanta living wage campaign came in the form of a fax. A director at the Atlanta Women's Foundation had just finished reading an anti--living wage article in a business magazine. A few minutes later, she faxed Cindia Cameron,...

In a Different Voice: The Phenomenology of Angels.(Poem)
March 22, 2011... In a Different Voice The Phenomenology of Angels 1 How could I tell? He could have been just a man standing there while the desert wind lifted my hair and a snatch of music drifted in from the street. How did I know? I...

Celebrating feminist work by knowing it.(Roundtable)(Viewpoint essay)
March 22, 2011... Let me first contextualize these reflections: I was greatly honored to have had the privilege of participating in the celebration of the ninetieth birthday of Catharina Halkes, an eminent European feminist theologian. The event was great and I...