Pub Date : 2023-11-22DOI: 10.1177/09667350231208145
Beverley Clack
The sociologist Arthur Frank, in his discussion of chronic illness, argues that we live ‘at the will of the body’. Contemporary Western attitudes suggest, to the contrary, that the body lives ‘at the will of the mind’. This article explores the problems of adopting an overly optimistic approach that ignores the role of the body for identity. I offer, instead, an approach grounded in the pessimistic tradition in philosophy. This approach runs contrary to what we as individuals, and as a society, might like to be the case. In addition, this approach poses a challenge to some dominant strands in contemporary feminist thought, made apparent by bringing to the fore the ageing female body. It might be assumed that a pessimistic philosophy such as the one pursued in this article is wholly negative; yet, it need not be read in this way. A pessimistic perspective may well reflect a healthy realism about the universe we inhabit that, paradoxically, enables us to live more flourishing lives. As Joshua Foa Dienstag (2006), philosopher of the varieties of pessimism, writes, ‘pessimism is a terror that liberates’ (p. 178), and I suggest how this might be of use in addressing climate change.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-12DOI: 10.1177/09667350231183906
J. Wootton
A street plan of the town where I live, drawn up in 1610, shows a jumble of dwellings, in a warren of streets and alleys with such names as “Well Street,” “Poultry Market,” and “Offal Lane.” One was known as “Mill Lane,” now called Mill Street, into which I have just moved. The people who lived here at the time of that map ran shops and small businesses which met the day-to-day needs of the community, much as they do today. I love being part of this little, intimate neighborhood. We are near to a river, which produced good fertile soil and enough transport links to be going on with. Down the road was an orchard, whose barn was bought by a Dissenting church, as soon as its minister got out of prison. This was a rebellious community in those days, before the eighteenthcentury social improvers and nineteenth-century moralists tidied things up. Those ordinary lives, and the footprints they have left in the townscape, are now shaping other ordinary lives. Just now, there’s a family walking along to the river, enjoying the weekend sunshine. The auction rooms opposite are just opening up, and the nightclub next door, in a disused church, was full of life until well into the small hours. I’m learning to live by the rhythms of these streets, and to listen out for the hidden voices, echoes of rebellion and dissent, of love and dancing, and quiet lament. This community will shape my life for a while, and I will become part of its shape for now, and the future. This issue of Feminist Theology represents an exercise in discerning the shapes left by hidden stories in the landscapes of myth and history, sacred writing and living experience. Sometimes, the forms concealed in the art and poetry of earlier ages emerge, like a stream that has long-run underground, to reshape another era. The power of patriarchy and colonialism to silence and repress cannot be underestimated, but neither can the persistence of radical dissent in courageous lives. The issue begins with a truly powerful and persistent myth, that of the Amazons. Olga Papamichali’s article spans the centuries from the rich mythological landscape of ancient Eurasia to her own research in film studies. The ancient story is evidenced in vase paintings, linguistic echoes including place names, and historical and other writings. The literary and artistic record is largely in the hands of the very conservative culture of classical Greece, which means that these warlike and powerful women are seen through the cultural lens of patriarchal misogyny. Whether the legend reflects the lives of real women or not—Papamichali is agnostic about this—they are depicted as the antithesis to the classical Greek ideal of womanhood: domestic, confined to the home, and certainly not militaristic. 1183906 FTH0010.1177/09667350231183906Feminist TheologyEditorial editorial2023
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Pub Date : 2023-08-12DOI: 10.1177/09667350231183064
Dvora Lederman Daniely
The essay considers the possibility that the Book of Lamentations contains passages lamenting the theological matricide that the ancient religion of Israel and the life of faith and worship have undergone. Despite the fact that archaeological findings, and biblical descriptions, point to the presence of a divine mother figure at the core of the religion and worship of the ancient people of Israel, the violent expulsion of this mother from the people’s life of faith and worship from the outset, as described in the Bible itself, has not been thoroughly investigated in terms of its spiritual-existential implications. This essay argues that what is described in Lamentations 1 may not only originate from the nation’s grief, the sense of chaos, and the destruction of the temple and the city, but also from the existential emotional violent separation from the Mother-Goddess, from the nation’s life of faith and worship, and the disaster that followed this disconnect and separation.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-12DOI: 10.1177/09667350231183070
Naomi Browell
Feminist theologians have been making arguments for moving away from strictly male-gendered terms for God for decades, yet many churches continue to refer to God as ‘Father’ and ‘Lord’ in their weekly liturgies. This article will explore the place of ‘Father’ in the Scottish Episcopal Church’s Confession as found in the 1982 Liturgy. The 2022 General Synod authorised revisions to the 1982 Liturgy, which include the removal of ‘Father’ from two of the post-Communion prayers offered. However, the Confession remains unchanged. Considering the historical foundations and the nature of language about God, this article will use feminist theological arguments to suggest changes that should be made to the Scottish Episcopal Church’s Confession. The article concludes with suggestions for alternate approaches to writing a contemporary version of the prayer for the Scottish Episcopal Church.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-12DOI: 10.1177/09667350231183054
Christine Redwood
The sermon still dominates in many evangelical churches. Evangelical preachers seek to capture and communicate the author’s intention in the biblical text. This can be challenging because the Bible is multi-faceted. How can evangelical preachers acknowledge this multiplicity? Preachers need to be willing to play in both the text and the way they communicate. In this article, I propose a strategy I have named the kaleidoscopic approach. I draw on the feminist scholar Mieke Bal and her work on the song in Judges 5 and bring some of her ideas to preaching. I believe a kaleidoscopic approach can help to amplify marginal (often female) voices in the text and bring fresh thinking on how we can continue to preach in the future.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-12DOI: 10.1177/09667350231183058
Olga Papamichali
The controversial Amazons’ myth has always been a matter of debate as to whether it is real or nothing more than a simple tale. Therefore, many scholars have tried to analyze the myths and their iconographic depictions, in an attempt to discover the truth behind the legend. Amazons have been described in many primary and secondary sources. Famous philosophers and historians of Antiquity have spread their legend and acknowledged them as “equals to men” providing valuable information for their daily life. These untamed females were warriors without hesitation or fear. They battled with the civilized and male-dominated ancient world, which wanted women restrained within the household, doing “women’s work” and child-raising. They defied patriarchy, contributing to changing the notion of women’s rights through the years, managing out of a feministic perspective to become one of the earliest and brightest examples of early feminism worldwide.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-12DOI: 10.1177/09667350231183063
C. Acero
This article is an account of my theological journey of spiritual and scientific transformation. It deals with the digestion of god in my life and the production of a new theological mode. My first description deals with the need of writing theology as if there was no censorship. What does it mean to go from war to democracy in theology? Then I register the need to go beyond the theology of liberation, pointing out some blocking rocks in the way. The need to transcend liberation theology pushes us toward the transgression of some limits. I recall the importance of sacred plants such as the Amazonian drink called Ayahuasca and its role in the process of the recovery of my health. Then, using postcolonial, queer, feminist, and critical religious studies, I examine the possibilities for trans-canonical hermeneutics on the horizon of world peace building.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-12DOI: 10.1177/09667350231183068
Sonia Kraemer
The role of the Virgin Mary in biblical texts is insubstantial. In fact, except for the first chapter of the Gospel of Luke, Mary never returns as a central figure of any other biblical story. This was one of the reasons for the appearance of the Apocryphal books. They calmed the insatiable curiosity of popular devotion and filled in the gaps of the gospels related to the life of Mary and the infancy of Jesus, which aroused such interest in believers, who were hungry for details. Nevertheless, over centuries, the Virgin cult has reached incredible dimensions. Indeed, today, Mary has many roles in the Catholic Church: Mother of God, perpetual Virgin, immaculately conceived and ascended to heaven in body and soul, where she will reign forever. From being a humble servant of God, she has passed over to being the Queen of Heaven, receiving divine status. This transcendence of the Virgin Mary figure in the Catholic religion is because, more than an historical character, the Virgin is presented as a theological symbol which has filled a deep need of the psyche to balance the excessively masculine in the Judeo-Christian tradition with the feminine aspect.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-12DOI: 10.1177/09667350231183073
S. Crabtree
This article deliberately selects findings from a feminist, cross-cultural, multi-faith ethnographic study of women’s religious identities, interpretations and practices in Malaysia and Britain. Findings pertaining to the embodied sacred are examined in terms of religious significance towards a sacralised female iconography. Focusing on sacred female representations, three distinct domains emerge relating to symbolic, sacred regenerative powers and the potency of a gendered infecund deification, where each domain relates to aspects of religious and ritualistic aspects loosely conforming to goddess typology. A nuanced account is offered privileging the experiential regarding how participants reconcile subordinated spiritual positions within patriarchal structures and discourses in seeking responsive woman-centric faiths.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-29DOI: 10.1177/09667350231163304
Theresa A. Yugar
Feminist liberation theologian Rosemary Radford Ruether was a prophetic and progressive voice for women in the Roman Catholic Church. Although feminism was only one aspect of her scholarship, it resulted in her theological contributions being dismissed in the Church. Rosemary’s challenges in the Church were primarily her biological sex and her feminist perspective. This clashed with male clericalism, and the patriarchal hierarchy of the Church. Rosemary was also highly critical of the First Vatican Council’s declaration about papal infallibility. In the twenty-first century, Rosemary Radford Ruether should be recognized as a Doctor in the Church for her groundbreaking scholarship, which reclaims women’s theological perspectives as a starting point for doing theology, and for her renewed vision of a more “authentic Catholicism.”
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