Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion articles from September 2003

Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion archives from September 2003

Editor's introduction.(Editorial)
September 22, 2003... The Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion seeks to give recognition to emerging new scholars in the field and to acknowledge their important work for shaping the future of the field of feminist studies in religion. If, as Dale Spender has...

Shifting identity: the contribution of feminist thought to theologies of religious pluralism.
September 22, 2003... At the turn of the twenty-first century, persons find themselves increasingly in contact with religious difference. In the academy, this contact fuels the projects of comparative religious studies and theologies of religious pluralism. These...

The case of the missing Goddess: plurality, power, and prejudice in reconstructions of Malta's Neolithic past.
September 22, 2003... One of the destinations most beloved by Goddess pilgrims is Malta, a small archipelago (316 square km) lying in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea 93 km south of Sicily and 300 km north of Libya. Marija Gimbutas described Malta as possessing...

Reading the raced and sexed body in The Color Purple: repatterning white feminist and womanist theological hermeneutics.
September 22, 2003... Since the publication of such groundbreaking texts as Carol Christ's Diving Deep and Surfacing and Katie Cannon's Black Womanist Ethics, white feminist and womanist scholars in religion have promoted the notion that vital theological and...

Response: reading womanists, repatterning ourselves.
September 22, 2003... Margaret Kamitsuka's "Reading the Raced and Sexed Body in The Color Purple" is an important essay for two reasons. First, Kamitsuka raises challenges for womanists and white feminists while, second, she emphasizes several dilemmas of...

Rejoinder: dialogue beyond first-wave white feminism.
September 22, 2003... I am grateful to the editors of JFSR for soliciting a womanist response to my article and to Stephanie Mitchem for negotiating the "pitfalls" of theory construction and--yes--dialogue itself within "our mutual feminist spaces." I would like to...

Speaking out: clergy sexual abuse: where are the women?
September 22, 2003... The sexual abuse crisis in the U.S. Catholic Church has now implicated more than 1200 priests, more than 4200 alleged victims, and 95 percent of American dioceses. Of the victims, 80 percent are boys or male adolescents, nearly the opposite of...

Religious authority and women's religious experience.
September 22, 2003... My first contribution to JFSR deals with the question of authority. My treatment of this theme is not only academic, but also is inspired by my personal history and the situation of women and religion in Brazil. I used to say that it is very...

Men in Biblical Feminist scholarship.
September 22, 2003... Male Representations of Biblical Feminism In late spring of this year, before leaving Tucson, where I teach, for San Diego, where I usually spend my summer vacations, a graduate student who had worked temporarily at the office of Judaic...

On the road north.(Brief Article)(Poem)
September 22, 2003... ON THE ROAD NORTH While they were enjoying themselves, the men of the town, a depraved lot, had gathered about the house and were pounding on the door. They called to the aged owner of the house, "Bring out the man ...

The Levite: in Gibeah an old man took us in.(Brief Article)(Poem)
September 22, 2003... The Levite: In Gibeah an Old Man Took Us In Shalom... I was bringing my concubine back. Four months she'd been in her father's house, he bending to her whim, willow tree to a glittering stream. A man does the leaving. ...

The old man's daughter.(Brief Article)(Poem)
September 22, 2003... The Old Man's Daughter Their torches licked the sky. A mob--stupid as wild boars, tusks between their thighs. They wanted the Levite, pretty-handed priest with stagnant eyes. My father said, Here is my...

The old man, who was born in the north.(Brief Article)(Poem)
September 22, 2003... The Old Man, Who Was Born in the North The concubine screamed. My wife too exhausted to scream. Blood and flies thick, the girl-child's yellow mewling. I wanted to leave her for the jackals-- ...

the Levite's servant-boy, who's twelve.(Poem)
September 22, 2003... the Levite's servant-boy, who's twelve in a pouch tied tight to my belt, I keep stones that fly true they're smooth like her knees which I saw last summer when she chased my master's greylag goose, her laughing...

Dead, the concubine might speak this way.(Brief Article)(Poem)
September 22, 2003... Dead, the Concubine Might Speak This Way No one is named in this story. The place is named, the consequences narrated. Did you read on? I was taken back to Ephraim across the donkey and ...

"We're the other Catholic church": Feminism in a Radical Catholic Renewal Community.
September 22, 2003... You know how they say pork is the other white meat? Well, we're the other Catholic church. --Rev. Jim Callan In November 2001 Spiritus Christi Church of Rochester, New York, a schismatic Catholic church identifying itself as "a...

A feminist theoethical analysis of white Pentecostal Australian women and marital abuse.
September 22, 2003... Every night a white Pentecostal woman in my community goes to bed and prays that she won't wake up in the morning. Battered Pentecostal women whom I know cannot escape their devastating shame without first enduring the additional torment of...