Feminist Theologies: Interstices and Fractures

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Figures
Notes
Introduction
	Notes
Chapter 1: Against Innocence: Feminism and Original Sin
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 2: Standing at the Corner of Sin and Grace
	Naming the Problem
	Naming the Need
	The Problem of Naming
	Presumption of Grace
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 3: “Because of the Angels” (1 Cor. 11:10): Ancient and Contemporary Threats to Women
	First Perspective: Because of the Angels
	Second Perspective: Evil Angels and the Constructed Male Gaze
	Third Perspective: The Gaze of Christ
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 4: In Spite of the Angels: Reading Paul and Freedom Struggle
	The Gaze of Angels and Empire
	Intersection of Imperial and Gender Politics
	Gazes, Veils, and Freedom
	Concluding Remarks
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 5: Mother Language, Mother Church, Mother Earth
	“Mother” Rhetoric in Catholic Documents
	A Philosophical-Psychoanalytic View of Mothering
	A Traditional Catholic View of Mothering—An Infant’s Perspective
	Early Infantile Attachment and Projection of “Motherhood” on Feminized Figures
	Native and Indigenous Mothering (in Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts)
	A Turn in the Catholic View of Women, in the Embrace of Indigenous Wisdom
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 6: The Veil of Mother
	Note
Chapter 7: “You Don’t Understand Me”: Serena Williams, Christology, and Non-Identity
	On Sport and Doctrine
	Who Is Serena Williams?
	Traditional Accounts of the Personhood of Jesus
	A Christology of Non-Identity
	A Christology of Non-Identity—A Failure
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 8: Why Misunderstanding Matters: Whiteness Made Visible to White Eyes
	Invisible Whiteness
	White Eyes Learning to See Whiteness
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 9: With All Due Respect, He Ain’t My Husband: Gender, Sexuality, and Theology in the Episcopal Church’s Rites of Marriage and Partnership
	What’s in a Name?
	Who Do You Say That I Am?
	Equality or Equivalency: What Difference Does Gender Difference Make?
	Metaphorical Moves Forward?
	One Liturgy or Many?
	So What to Call Him?
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 10: Partner, Husband, Friend?: The Sacramentality of a Same-Sex Relationship
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 11: Common Ground: The Gift of Womanist Theology in the Midst of the #MeToo Era
	Feminist Division Over the #MeToo Movement
	#MeToo Tensions in Light of Womanist Theology
	Concluding Thoughts
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 12: This Is My Body: Re-Making the Maternal Image in Terms of Divine Relation and Difference
	The Function of the Icon in a History of the Image
	Re-Imagining the Body of the Mother and the Divine
	Performing the Icon and Other Works of Art
	Light, Silence, and the Sounding of Breath
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 13: Encounters Among Strangers: Bodies, Marys, Arts
	Bodies and Sense-ations
	Marys and Women
	Art as a Space of Encounter
	Notes
Chapter 14: Deterrence: Crucified People
	Deterrence in the News
	Crucified People
	Christa Crucified
	Crucified Children
	Visual Theology
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 15: Pink Crosses in Ciudad Juárez
	The Visit of Pope Francis to Ciudad Juárez
	Violence against Women in Juárez
	Pink Crosses as Protest and Mourning
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 16: Hinterland is Intersection: Talking Back to the Exodus Blockade
	Torah Troubles
	Hinterland
	Indigenous upon Arrival
	Exodus from the Blockade
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 17: Asian Immigrants’ Hinterland
	Hinterland for Asian Immigrants in the United States
	COVID-19 Pandemic as Hinterland for Asian Immigrants in the United States
	With my Personal Reflection on Anti-Asian Violence in COVID-19 as Hinterland
	Notes
Index
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