Pub Date : 2024-04-18DOI: 10.1177/09667350241233584
Cruz Edgardo Torres, Hugo Cordova Quero
This article aims to trace the history of hiv/aids in Central America, with particular attention to El Salvador. Its first section presents a periodization that details the evolution of the response and understanding of the region in the social context. The second section focuses on a detailed periodization of how faith communities reacted to the presence of hiv/aids, especially highlighting their responses to the affected people. The third section of the article provides a biblical, theological, and pastoral perspective from the early days to the current response of faith communities to hiv/aids.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-18DOI: 10.1177/09667350241233570
Mercedes Aguilar Contreras
This article seeks to demonstrate that the myth of creation, written in Genesis, originates in the history of the different technologies of power. Judaism, in the myth of origin, established a hermeneutic with ontological status on the creation of man. This has severely affected the theological work of sex–gender diversity groups, including feminist and queer theology. Since the myth of origin has been one of the foundational narratives of the history of Christianity, it is the theological matrix where the binary oppositions are constructed: man-woman in which a cis-heteropatriarchal theology of the texts is articulated.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-18DOI: 10.1177/09667350241233594c
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Pub Date : 2023-11-22DOI: 10.1177/09667350231208141
Ozan Can Yılmaz
This research concerns the phenomenological pragmatics of the Marian imaginaries in the study of gender and religion as intersecting and coconstituting themes. The contemporary constructions of antiquity occur in two ways: phantasmatic conceptions of the sacred as indoctrinated gendered catechisms, and embodied forms manifest on the body, thus serving as dogmatic disruptions for human sexuality. Reminiscent of Irigaray, what are the ways in which seemingly sexed bodies shelter the deterritorialized Queen? In what manner do bodies on pilgrimage facilitate the mediation of the mediatrix? This study examines how the queen of virgins, the Regina Virginum, demarcates the visions of womanhood and femininity through fieldwork among the Latina Catholic women pilgrims to the House of the Virgin Mary in Selçuk Province, Turkey. In this context, it further provides an analysis of discourse within the context of Pope Francis’ address at the General Audience held in the Paul VI Audience Hall on Wednesday, 23 August 2023. The research results are set to highlight how women can cultivate empowerment by embracing their inner selves, paralleling Mary’s spiritual influence on women’s agency. Findings demonstrate how women utilize pilgrimage experiences, inspired by Mary’s multifaceted symbolism, to challenge gender norms, reconstruct identities, and assert agency, emphasizing the transformative potential of religious practices in empowering women.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-22DOI: 10.1177/09667350231208137
Susan Pickard
This article suggests that feminist archetypal theory provides a helpful and empowering framework through which to understand embodied change as experienced in contemporary times. A mainstream approach associated with second-wave feminism, it has fallen victim to poststructuralist critiques and is rarely used, despite a renewed popularity of goddess archetypes in broader lay culture. I argue that this framework deserves revisiting as, in generating positive images and plots, it can serve as a source of empowerment and strength for women and especially so where hegemonic contemporary discourses are overwhelmingly negative and medicalised, as in the case of menopause. Using auto-ethnographic methods, I illustrate this with reference to my own lived experience of menopausal transition. Finally, and just as importantly, I show how this approach configures a different and more holistic kind of knowledge that recognises connection, relationality and communion of self, others and world, rather than separation and domination.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-22DOI: 10.1177/09667350231208144
Lisa Isherwood
This article will examine the difficulties involved in female embodiment facing as it does negativity from Church Fathers to philosophers and psychologists. The female body is hardly ever just allowed ‘to be’. I will argue that placed within the frame of radical incarnation and the dismissal of dualistic metaphysics gives the female body the freedom to be and further places those who would deny the freedom in the realm of those who commit blasphemy and not simply patriarchal misogynists.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-22DOI: 10.1177/09667350231208140
Megan Clay
The idea of the female body as a site of oppression often can seem lost in the unconscious of many women. Even now in the twenty-first century, we still live in a system that has fostered this way of thinking and acting throughout Christianity and beyond. Bringing new ways of thinking and being can prove difficult to many women who think that they are now both equal and free. Yet for those women who are aware of these challenges continue the revolution in ways that are understood by them both personally and politically. Feminist liberation theologies have long been seeking and finding tools to liberate and change the way women are seen, heard and more importantly how they see themselves. I argue that visual art is another way of giving voice to the female body and as a feminist liberation theologian and visual artist, I propose visual art and body theology are fitting companions for this venture. Bodies of knowledge are bursting to speak and relate through creative practice; this is another way of speaking and all of the arts come under this umbrella. The fluid boundaries of the arts and the use of the somatic practice of psychology will enable me to look at how bodies see, hear and remember experience through movement and dance. The new cosmology, a branch of science that has at its heart creative praxis, will help the conversation further, as it looks at fields of energy in all sentient beings including the planet itself. Thus, holding a relational quality within all of creation. I see that enabling women’s voices to communicate through the language of the visual arts opens the door to knowledge behind which has hidden the incarnational value of women’s divine being.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-22DOI: 10.1177/09667350231208134
M. Beavis
For three decades, the Canadian artist Lilian Broca has been creating art featuring biblical women: Lilith/Eve, Esther, Judith and Mary Magdalene. These are not single artworks, but series, presenting these women in the contexts of their narratives. In contrast with traditional artistic representations of these figures, dominated by the male gaze, Broca brings a feminist lens to their stories. Broca’s work not only converges with feminist theology and biblical studies, but she also uses this scholarship as part of her research, pointing to a fruitful and significant relationship between feminist art and academic theology.
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