Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion articles from September 22 2002

Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion archives from September 22 2002

Editors' introduction.(Editorial)
September 22, 2002... JFSR has a new religiously and professionally diversified international advisory board and we are delighted to introduce some of our new colleagues on file board in this issue. We are very happy that the dream of an international community of...

Female Christ and feminist foremother: the many lives of Ann Lee.(Biography)
September 22, 2002... Ann Lee is remembered today as one of the few eighteenth-century female founders of a religious movement. She is cited in some contemporary feminist religious scholarship as a resource for a more egalitarian Christianity. But during her...

Re-forming families: producing the new ideal.
September 22, 2002... Modern divorce rates, cohabitation practices, low marital and high out-of-marriage birth rates, abortion rates, the increase in single-female-headed families, and the correlation between poverty and single-mother families are some of the...

Genetics, ethics, and feminist theology: some recent directions.
September 22, 2002... Scientific research in human genetics, especially the Human Genome Project, raises a host of important ethical, social, and policy questions. Both public and scholarly debate about these questions tends to place them against a horizon of...

Speaking out: can we ever go to war "with god on our side"?
September 22, 2002... When I agreed to write an editorial for the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion in the fall of 2001, the events of 9/11 were very much on everyone's mind. My experience on 9/11 was different from that of most Americans, because I already...

Feminism and religion in the Pacific region: some critical reflections.
September 22, 2002... It is a great honor to have been invited to join the expanded international editorial board of JFSR and to be able to support this worthy and necessary enterprise. In 1999, during the celebrations marking the fifteenth anniversary of the...

Jewish women's studies in Israel.
September 22, 2002... Women's studies in Israel is not necessarily associated with Jewish Women's Studies, except insofar as most of the women who do work in women's studies are Jewish and that, in the final analysis, one may understand the development of women's...

Hinduism and feminism: some concerns.
September 22, 2002... I hope the concerns expressed in this brief essay will be of interest to both readers of and contributors to JFSR. Some of the issues are not particularly new but are worth raising because they tend to resurface in contemporary discourses....

Is patriarchal theology still patriarchal? Reading theologies of the Holocaust from a feminist perspective.
September 22, 2002... As elsewhere, British feminist scholars of religion are questioning whether the critical tools and methods of so-called Second Wave feminism of the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s have "enabled scholars of the next generation to intensify their...

A feminist dream: toward a multicultural, multireligious feminist liberation theology.(planning a cross-cultural womens theology encounter in Sri Lanka in 2004)
September 22, 2002... The editors of this journal asked me to present myself and to look at the context in which I live and do my work as a theologian. In doing this I will say something about the developments of which I have been a part in recent years as well as...

The Unfolding.(In A Different Voice)(Poem)
September 22, 2002... The Unfolding You never have to explain yourself, only perceive: how paint wet on the page dries mid the colors shift, how the scissors flash and where there were none, new edges, how white space waits full of what already...

Excess.(In A Different Voice)(Poem)
September 22, 2002... EXCESS (for Judith Berling) Art is excess. --Jeanette Winterson Turn, for the realm of God is at hand. --Matthew 3:2 How many days do you want? As many as I can turn wisely. And all the excess, the unwise, unclear,...

The Interstices.(In A Different Voice)(Poem)
September 22, 2002... The Interstices Rage for the world as it is but for what it may be more love than last year-- --Muriel Rukeyser, "This Place in the Ways" Into the grasp of our last night you spoke once, This is only a time and a place....

Abscondita.(In A Different Voice)(Poem)
September 22, 2002... Abscondita 1. Another too still day this broad river of unbroken reflection: too many days have floated here laughless and becalmed If I could wander leave prints and exhalations across the darkening afternoon You...

Arrivings.(In A Different Voice)(Poem)
September 22, 2002... Arrivings Oars thrown in thunked the gunnel rocked the hollow boat before you stepped resounding in after you landed giddy out All the surfaces breaking open-- water lapped ...

During migration.(In A Different Voice)(Poem)
September 22, 2002... During Migration for Alice During migration, the rules break down and any birds often show up in unusual habitats. A snipe or a bittern may be found on a city sidewalk, or an ocean-going jaeger may appear on a small inland...

Engaging a new discourse: teaching "Women in Islam" in the American university classroom.(Muslim woman's experience in teaching class after Sept 11, 2001)
September 22, 2002... Like millions of Americans across the United States waking up to the horror of that infamous morning on September 11, 2001, I too struggled to maintain a semblance of normalcy in my home. While the World Trade Center collapsed on the...