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{"title":"Intertwined Histories: Muslim Domesticity and the Harem in the Eyes of a Swedish Nineteenth-Century Protestant Feminist","authors":"Ragnhild Johnsrud Zorgati","doi":"10.2979/jfs.2023.a893194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/jfs.2023.a893194","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: This article delves into the Swedish novelist and feminist Fredrika Bremer’s views on female liberation by exploring her encounter with Muslim women in Jerusalem in the spring of 1859. It argues that Bremer’s program for women’s emancipation evokes similarities between women’s situation in Scandinavia and Palestine. By insisting on such similarities, the author nuances Leila Ahmed’s generalizing claim concerning the differences of interest that existed between European and Middle Eastern women in the nineteenth century, namely that European feminism helped maintain the system of white male dominance. For although Bremer maintains the idea of European superiority, she notices common interests with women in Palestine and upholds her critique of white patriarchy. The structure of the article follows the main themes evoked by Bremer in her conversations with Muslim women, namely religion, freedom of movement, literacy, and marriage. These issues were not innocent topics of conversation, but announced a radical program for female liberation. In order to contextualize Bremer’s account, the article juxtaposes research on women, religion, and family patterns in Scandinavia and the Middle East.","PeriodicalId":44347,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FEMINIST STUDIES IN RELIGION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135532808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Beyond The Boundary Of Home: Religion, Space, and Women in Hong Kong","authors":"Wai Ching Angela Wong","doi":"10.2979/jfs.2023.a893195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/jfs.2023.a893195","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: This article focuses on women’s place/space in Hong Kong with both deliberate attention to women’s absence/presence in history and an aspiration to reinstall women’s contribution to the place it deserves. Inspired by Derrida’s dialectic between presence and absence, the author traces women’s “presence” through their deeds and voices from “behind” and “underneath” their historical “absence.” As explained by Turner’s liminality of religion as an “in-between” space, the woman subject stretches her spatial map beyond the boundary of “home.” Through their religious devotion, women cross from their “designated” domestic confinement to the social and the private spheres, to the public sphere. The author draws on four women’s cases, each from a religious tradition in Hong Kong—Christianity, Buddhism, Daoism, and Islam—to illustrate the various forms of negotiation they exercised in everyday life to find a subject in multiplicity. The gendered subject is never a monolithic essence but ever becoming.","PeriodicalId":44347,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FEMINIST STUDIES IN RELIGION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135532809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tārā, Cundā, and their Prototypes: Exploring the Origins of the Two Buddhist Goddesses","authors":"Juyan Zhang","doi":"10.2979/jfs.2023.a893191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/jfs.2023.a893191","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Through intertextual analysis of ancient stone and metal images as well as written texts, this article explores the origins and identities of Tārā and Cundā, two Buddhist goddesses that are widely worshipped in the Indic and Tibetan Mahāyāna and Vajrayāṇa traditions. By charting the goddesses’ iconographic characteristics, their quality, and their relationships with Avalokiteśvara, it argues that the prototype of Tārā is Yaśodharā-to-be, and that Cundā is based on Sujata, the girl who gave the Buddha-to-be milk rice. The first part of the analysis shows clear coherence throughout ancient visual narratives, namely images featuring the girl in the Dīpaṃkara Buddha story, images featuring Avalokiteśvara and Tārā, and independent images of Tārā. The second part demonstrates clear coherence in the evolution of the visual narratives, which feature Sujata holding a vessel to see the Buddha-to-be and independent Cundā images. The article also shows that the visual narratives have intrinsic fidelity.","PeriodicalId":44347,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FEMINIST STUDIES IN RELIGION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135532803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editors’ Introduction","authors":"Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre, Stephanie Mitchem","doi":"10.2979/fsr.2007.23.2.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/fsr.2007.23.2.1","url":null,"abstract":"Editors’ Introduction Kate M. Ott and Zayn Kassam With a new year come new changes at JFSR. In this issue, we are announcing a new annual award named in honor of Rev. Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon, experimenting with a new section called Living It Out articles, and celebrating coeditor Zayn Kassam’s new appointment and subsequent stepping down from the journal’s editorial team. Significant changes often highlight what stays constant. The content of this issue crosses religious traditions and historic time periods to remind us that even when religious texts, images, and practices produce gender oppression, female-identified practitioners, goddesses, and believers confound and disrupt patriarchy. The articles section of this issue follows a historical trajectory while taking the reader on a global journey using examples of material culture to show the nuanced agency and presence of the feminine, even in the absence of female-identified religious actors. In the first article, Juyan Zhang details the origins and identities of two Buddhist goddesses, Tārā and Cundā, through an analysis of stone and metal images to trace the prototypes for these goddesses in Indic and Tibetan traditions. Gillian Alban then takes the reader to the Mediterranean to witness the ways in which statues of and literature about Medusa evidence the power of female figures’ “hold on the male unconscious in rising above castigation, asserting their amazing procreative force over life and death, enabled through Medusa’s stunning tale and transfixing gaze” (49). The nuanced navigation of patriarchal religious culture is further examined by Rosemary Admiral, moving us farther west and south to the premodern Islamic areas of North Africa and al-Andalus. Admiral investigates women’s sexual agency through fatwas documenting marital disputes. Examples of women refusing sex from this time period can, Admiral argues, show women as sexual agents negotiating consent in marriage, akin to modern circumstances. [End Page 1] The final two essays in this section cover more modern periods while presenting no less complicated negotiations of gender and feminism across religious and domestic spaces. In “Intertwined Histories: Muslim Domesticity and the Harem in the Eyes of a Swedish Nineteenth-Century Protestant Feminist,” Ragnhild Johnsrud Zorgati interrogates the complicated feminist claims of Swedish novelist Fredrika Bremer through an analysis of her encounter with Muslim women in Jerusalem in the spring of 1859. Zorgati argues that counter to other white European feminists of the time, Bremer critiqued white patriarchy and supported a program for female liberation. The final essay in the section provides a theoretical frame by which to read the women’s place/space and presence/absence in all the previously mentioned examples. Wai Ching Angela Wong draws upon Jacques Derrida’s presence/absence dialectic and Victor Turner’s liminality of religion to trace women subjects “Beyond the Boundary of Home” i","PeriodicalId":44347,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FEMINIST STUDIES IN RELIGION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136131250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editors' Introduction","authors":"Kate M. Ott, Zayn R. Kassam","doi":"10.2979/jfemistudreli.35.1.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/jfemistudreli.35.1.01","url":null,"abstract":"We send this issue to press as the 2012 presidential election draws to a close— an election that puts before the American people radically different visions of the future of these United States. It is by good fortune rather than by predetermined plan that the essays in this issue speak to questions that are front and center in the political landscape— the character of democracy, the role of government, the nature of the public— and that will remain so regardless of who is elected the next president. Your editors recognize the merits of publishing planned special themed issues, but this is not one, even though it may seem as if it ought to have been. We trust that you, as dedicated vernacularists, will appreciate the decision to find and underscore common themes in what were conceived as independent investigations of public culture in the United States. First and foremost, and critical to highlight during an especially bitter, nasty presidential campaign: our authors remind us of the importance of union, of finding common purpose while we critique democracy as it actually exists. Like Barack Obama, we agree that the “search for a more perfect union” is ongoing in the United States— and must be, given the country’s character as home to groups that are diverse in their past experiences, present circumstances, and outlooks for the future. In each article, the authors examine the struggle to give voice— in some cases literally, in others in a more conceptual sense— to the perspective of the disenfranchised, ignored, or unpopular. Each of this issue’s authors also makes clear another allied, but perhaps less recognized point: democracies need physical spaces to thrive. As the theorist Henri Lefebvre argued in The Production of Space, appropriating places has an emancipatory potential in a liberal capitalist democracy. In keeping with this line of thinking, our authors show that it is necessary to claim, to appropriate the physical— actual buildings, actual spaces, actual artifacts— to expand democracy, even if some of the power relations of the dominant society are replicated in and through material culture. This argument is one that Mary P. Ryan, historian of public culture in the United States, has applied to women and cities during the nineteenth century, and it comes as no surprise to students of her work that it is cited by more than one author in this issue. For the Viewpoint essay, Andrew K. SandovalStrausz steps out of his role as review editor to write “Latino Vernaculars and the Emerging National Landscape.” Building on essays published in this journal and discussions at the 2008 Vernacular Architecture Forum conference in Fresno, SandovalStrausz revisits a classic essay, “Chihuahua as We Might Have Been,” written by J. B. Jackson and published more than sixty years ago in Landscape. SandovalStrausz demonstrates that this essay remains relevant because it helps us understand and work with the spaces produced by Latinos, one of the fastest gro","PeriodicalId":44347,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FEMINIST STUDIES IN RELIGION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82293113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"\"Where Have All the Young Girls Gone?\": Discovering the Girls of the Bible through Childist Analysis of Exodus 2 and Mark 5–7","authors":"Sharon Betsworth, J. Parker","doi":"10.2979/jfemistudreli.38.2.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/jfemistudreli.38.2.09","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article introduces the burgeoning field of childist biblical studies to feminist biblical studies through narrative exploration of Exod 2 and Mark 5–7. A brief overview of childist (or child-centered) biblical interpretation lays the groundwork for an ensuing focus on girls in these texts. The article focuses first on Exod 2, then Mark 5–7. Each discussion begins by acknowledging feminist scholarship on these texts before offering a childist analysis of each passage. The exegesis of Exod 2 demonstrates that half of the characters in this well-populated chapter should be understood as girls. Exegetical attention to Mark 5–7 subsequently reveals the critical theological role afforded to girls in these chapters. Combining tools of narrative analysis with childist hermeneutics, the authors show that girls in the Bible are more prevalent and powerful than commentators and readers often realize.","PeriodicalId":44347,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FEMINIST STUDIES IN RELIGION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80902880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Southern Methodist Women and the Fight for Racial and Gender Justice, 1939–1990","authors":"Janet Allured","doi":"10.2979/jfemistudreli.38.2.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/jfemistudreli.38.2.08","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper examines a badly understudied topic, the feminist leadership provided by southern women in the Department of Christian Social Relations, a subunit of the Woman's Society of Christian Service (WSCS), and the United Methodist Women (UMW) from 1940 to 1990. It examines the origins and influence of the powerful UMW and its predecessor organizations, and explains why southern women predominated in leadership and why southerners, who are usually understood to be forces of conservatism, led the church to adopt progressive positions and policies regarding racial and gender justice in the mid- to late twentieth century. Profiled are the three most influential women within the UMW and its predecessors: Thelma Stevens, Peggy Billings, and Theressa Hoover. It briefly describes the effect that the Religious Right had on progressive women, and concludes with a brief discussion of the current debate over human sexuality within Methodism.","PeriodicalId":44347,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FEMINIST STUDIES IN RELIGION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79184963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Influence and Impact of Bernadette Brooten Not Only on LGBTIQ+ People in Germany","authors":"Angela Standhartinger","doi":"10.2979/jfemistudreli.38.2.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/jfemistudreli.38.2.16","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44347,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FEMINIST STUDIES IN RELIGION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83901471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Response","authors":"B. Brooten","doi":"10.2979/jfemistudreli.38.2.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/jfemistudreli.38.2.17","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44347,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FEMINIST STUDIES IN RELIGION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86205652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Finding Men in Menstruation: Resolving Bad Blood by Discovering Male Roles in the Purification Rituals of Leviticus 12","authors":"John Jerome Markowski","doi":"10.2979/jfemistudreli.38.2.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/jfemistudreli.38.2.05","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Harmful interpretations of the blood rites for menstruating and postpartum women in Leviticus 12 have sown seeds of misogyny for two millennia. While this text has often been criticized for its patriarchal perspective, this article demonstrates how male participation in Lev 12:1-8 provides unexpected support for women during their blood cycles. First, through historical analysis of postpartum and menses misogyny, the author holds androcentric religious agendas accountable for female blood taboos, rather than scripture itself. Second, Markowski provides a close Hebrew textual analysis of Lev 12 to suggest that ancient Israelite men function as allies to bleeding women, not enemies. Third, he shows how cross-cultural narratives and practices of menstrual rest and maternity leave, supported by anthropological research and feminist scholarship, confirm the collaboration described in the biblical text. Surprisingly, ancient biblical male-female partnerships offer modern society inspiring role models for empowering and liberating biblical family values.","PeriodicalId":44347,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FEMINIST STUDIES IN RELIGION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84809792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}