Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion articles from September 2006

Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion archives from September 2006

Editors' introduction.
September 22, 2006... Envisioning the future always includes critically revisiting the past and taking careful stock of the present. The contributors to this issue demonstrate this ongoing process of imagining the future of global feminisms and feminist studies in...

Imperial intersections and initial inquiries: toward a feminist, postcolonial analysis of Philippians.(Bible. N.T. Philippians)
September 22, 2006... Marchal examines the potential interconnections and gaps between several "strands" of biblical interpretation in order to elaborate a feminist, postcolonial analysis of Paul's letter to the Philippians. By both surveying and critically...

Islamic feminism in Iran: feminism in a new Islamic context.
September 22, 2006... Ahmadi reveals in this article how, by emphasizing the historical context of the holy texts, challenging the clergy's monolithic interpretational power, and reformulating Islamic concepts and law from a "feminist" perspective, Islamic...

Buddhism and gender: reframing and refocusing the debate.
September 22, 2006... Within the Buddhism and gender debate in Western scholarship, various approaches to the study of Buddhist literature--Orientalist, Protestant Buddhism, and a doctrinal approach--have led to a taxonomy of value being accorded various texts...

Dismantling the master's tools with the master's house: native feminist liberation theologies.
September 22, 2006... I'm a feminist because I think anything else is unintelligent. And I just can't go with turning my brain into jello for someone else's fantasy fulfillment. I also think it's ordained by God. I really do think I have divine power on my side in...

Caring for the World.(Poem)
September 22, 2006... Caring for the World It's all right if I hold the old lady by her bony shoulders as she hawks yellow sputum onto her jello. It's all right if the man in the elastic truss has crusted feces on the crease of his sunken...

Positively breaking taboos: why and how I made the film: Period Piece.
September 22, 2006... The Context: Creative Momentum of the Early Women's Liberation Movement I came to Harvard Divinity School (HDS) in fall 1971, matriculating into the three-year Master of Divinity program for many coalescing reasons. (1) As with many of...