Pub Date : 2023-04-29DOI: 10.1177/09667350231163311
Soni Wadhwa
Exercises in feminist theology outside Western contexts and outside of discourses of theorisation can prove to be enriching to address the disconnection between secular and religious feminisms. One way to address this disconnection is to locate the intersection between secular and religious feminisms in the space of fiction. While mytho-fiction about the Hindu epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, has been around for quite some time and has been extensively analysed for its critique of religion and diversity of representation of heroines, the feminist hermeneutic of reconstruction is only now witnessing a resurgence in Buddhism. This article focuses on Buddhist Studies scholar Vanessa R Sasson’s debut novel Yasodhara and the Buddha for its blending of feminist consciousness with the Buddhist ethos of love. It is hoped that this exercise will be found meaningful in understanding women’s experiences of and attitudes towards religion.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-29DOI: 10.1177/09667350231163309
Renny Golden
Renny Golden, professor emerita from Northeastern Illinois University and Pilgrim Place resident, was a teaching colleague of Rosemary’s for many years while they were in Chicago. She offers a beautiful poem about her close friend that captures the essence of Rosemary’s enduring spirit which we carry
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Pub Date : 2023-04-29DOI: 10.1177/09667350231163313
J. Hughes
The intellectual contributions of feminist theologian Rosemary Radford Ruether remain urgent, including for scholars outside of the immediate field of theology. This exposition unfolds in two parts. First, I argue that Ruether’s considerable corpus of published works provides a model through which theological categories can be honed as theoretical analytics for historical critique, especially for thinking about colonialism and empire. There is essential work that theology and theologians can do in interrogating the past, especially the Catholic past and its imbrication with extractive global political economies. Theology, in its finest form, is fundamentally a critical and analytical project, as Ruether demonstrates. The second part refers to Ruether’s expansive articulation of sacrament and sacramentality, a lens through which scholars of religion can better approximate and interpret the religious experience and practice of women, and Catholic laywomen in particular. I apply these analytics to consider the history of Catholicism in Mexico.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01Epub Date: 2021-12-24DOI: 10.1093/sp/jxab049
Leydy Diossa-Jiménez, Cecilia Menjívar
El Salvador's violence against women (VAW) and antiabortion laws present optimal empirical ground to examine the intersection of familyism ideology, laws, and the state relevant beyond this case. Analyzing legal documents, content of laws, and newspapers, we juxtapose these two laws that have followed different applications within the same socio-legal context and historical time, legal reasoning, and juridical structure to identify a common thread: the control of women's bodies and devaluation of women's lives enshrined in the legal system. "Familyism" ideology embedded in the law prioritizes family over women's rights where social class emerges as a central factor. The analysis centers the state, as it interacts with and responds to pressures from the international community and domestic political forces to create, align, and implement antiabortion and VAW laws while devaluing gender ideologies that seek to protect women. In sum, both laws prioritize family at the expense of women's rights and lives, especially poor and socially disadvantaged women.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-15DOI: 10.1177/09667350221136820
Beverley Clack
minimising the abuse and trying to silence those who have been harmed. They have to concede that not to do these things is significantly damaging the church’s reputation right now. This short book is well researched but also accessible. It offers genuine insight into difficult issues, as well as a wealth of useful and current reference. Sadly for those who like to hold a book in their hands when reading, or who wish to make references to this book in their own writing, there is no paperback version on sale. The hardback is priced at over £40. Instead, the publishers have focussed on e-market sales, with a kindle price of £15.29.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-15DOI: 10.1177/09667350221135461
Ally Kateusz
Writers starting with Tertullian and the author behind the Didascalia Apostolorum attest to the presence of early Christian women baptizers, as do a variety of later writers. The early Christian tradition of Holy Spirit as female and mother, her womb the font of new birth (Jn 3.3-5), helps illuminate why women may have been seen as the midwives, or ministers, of this birthing ritual. Likewise, the identification of the font as a womb adds to Jocelyn Toynbee’s 1964 proposal that a scene on the Walesby Tank, a fourth-century Romano-British baptismal font, portrayed two clothed women assisting a nude female neophyte at her baptism.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-15DOI: 10.1177/09667350221135058
J. Duran
It is argued that the thought of Lady Jane Grey has received too little attention, and that her name and beliefs need to be resuscitated. The work of Levin, DeLisle and others is alluded to, and it is concluded that Grey was a devoted Dissenter of her time with explicit beliefs
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Pub Date : 2022-12-15DOI: 10.1177/09667350221135039
Alison Downie
Although the term mental illness is problematic, it is unavoidable for those most deeply harmed by it. In contrast to some current theological responses to mental illness, fully intersectional responses recognize not only gender, race, and class but also religion as a factor in some mental illness experience. A panentheistic theological response begins with a relational ontology, understands bodily diversities as part of finitude, and affirms the already-beloved identity of persons living with mental illness. This starting point of original blessing rather than original sin dismantles stigma rather than obscuring it through associating mental illness with the Fall. A theology of Spirit as that which opens to and empowers possibilities within repeated losses and turmoil responds to mental illness without minimizing suffering.
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