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{"title":"Book Review: The Indecent Theologies of Marcella Althaus-Reid: Voices From Asia and Latin America","authors":"M. Clay","doi":"10.1177/09667350221085156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09667350221085156","url":null,"abstract":"male entitlement that, she knows, lie at the heart or form the ‘trunk’ (p. 59) of this issue. Collins is conscious that evangelical Christian culture (p. 83) is profoundly invested in conventional (outmoded?) gender norms. Thus, for example, she makes reference to the practices of ‘Christian Domestic Discipline’ whose website advocates physical punishment of ‘unrepentant’ wives and children (p. 27). But though she sees this as ‘distorted theology’, she does not appear to feel, for example, that Biderman’s identification of ‘demonstrating omnicompetence’ as a key element in the torturer’s playbook (p. 19) raises issues for the trope of Almighty God itself. Perhaps she feels that the distortion comes from the fact that whereas God is actually ‘all-mighty’, human males go wrong by aping this divine trait. This is certainly an argument that has been employed by abusers in the past – that their entitlement is modelled by (a masculine) God. She does not often use the term ‘Almighty’ in reference to her own grace or Jesus-focussed spirituality though it does come up in the chapter ‘“What would Jesus do? (All that theology stuff)” as “an almighty force”’ (p. 80). For this reader, the spectre of God represented as Alpha Male (p. 71) still hangs in the air. If the Almighty is a toxic trope or mode of masculinity for human beings, then it is equally if not more toxic when associated with God. Moreover, from Collins’ perspective, it seems to exemplify a ‘Do as I say, not as I do!’ approach. If grace is available only if we give our absolute trust to an Almighty power, we give that demand for total devotion, for the taming and control of our whole selves by another, a dangerously seductive lustre. There is clearly more to be discussed here, and theology would not appear to be Collins’ first priority in this book. Her priority – beyond reaching out to suffering women – is, perhaps, rather to suggest faith as a legitimate resource. And she surely makes a point when she draws attention to the fact that feminist women – even those who support DV survivors – are sometimes less than sympathetic to women for whom their faith is an important part of who they are or an important part of how they have been able to get beyond their experiences of violent abuse (p. 30) without losing their whole selves in the process. Arguably, practices of genuine piety at odds with so-called ‘secular’ norms are not only or necessarily regressive in feminist terms (Mahmood, Princeton University Press, 2004).","PeriodicalId":55945,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Theology","volume":"19 1","pages":"367 - 368"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65313436","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":"A Strange Sadness: Margaret Baxter on the Trauma of Conversion","authors":"N. Shannon","doi":"10.1177/09667350211055458","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09667350211055458","url":null,"abstract":"This article seeks to recover a familiar but unappreciated female voice from English Puritanism of the seventeenth century, that of Margaret Baxter. Various challenges to such recovery are examined, most notably the nature of her relationship to her pastor and husband, Richard. Extant literature from Margaret’s hand focuses on the events surrounding her conversion and life-threatening illness shortly thereafter. The present analysis of these texts and their circumstances concludes that Margaret was a faithful but critical heir of the practical theology of her day, and that in her lived expression of that tradition one observes the enduring scars of the trauma of her conversion.","PeriodicalId":55945,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Theology","volume":"30 1","pages":"143 - 152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47418804","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":"20th December 1945 to the 14th July 2021","authors":"Ruth Mantin","doi":"10.1177/09667350211073548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09667350211073548","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55945,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Theology","volume":"30 1","pages":"238 - 238"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43344972","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":"My Grandmothers Baked Cakes for the Queen of Heaven: A Journey from Judaism to Goddess Spirituality","authors":"J. daCosta","doi":"10.1177/09667350211055463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09667350211055463","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, I trace my story from Jewish ‘war baby’ to thealogian embracing Goddess talk; a search for spirituality, as well as for roots. I explore, in particular, Asherah, whom I accept as the Hebrew Goddess, and I share some of the insights of academics who illuminated my path. I also touch on the latest DNA evidence for the origins of Ashkenazi Jewry and my own search for identity.","PeriodicalId":55945,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Theology","volume":"30 1","pages":"153 - 166"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46167534","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":"Evil in the Twenty-First Century","authors":"J. daCosta","doi":"10.1177/09667350211055455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09667350211055455","url":null,"abstract":"What can we define as evil in the twenty-first century? Paganism had no devil figure, only trickster gods. It was monotheism that personified evil as Satan, although by the mid-twentieth century, Satanism was recognised as an alternative religion with its own churches. Can we point at individuals whose intentions were not diabolical, but the outcome of which had a negative impact? Perhaps such changes can be attributed to an ideology or the rise of science? Or perhaps evil occurs when too many people close their eyes to what is happening around them, while goodness is taking responsibility for the world in which we live?","PeriodicalId":55945,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Theology","volume":"30 1","pages":"167 - 178"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45413280","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":"Editorial","authors":"Beverley Clack","doi":"10.1177/09667350221075855","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09667350221075855","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55945,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Theology","volume":"30 1","pages":"125 - 128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44380769","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":"Book Review: Rage in the Belly: Hunger in the New Testament","authors":"Alison Jasper","doi":"10.1177/09667350211055464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09667350211055464","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55945,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Theology","volume":"30 1","pages":"234 - 236"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47624465","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":"Book Review: Rage in the Belly: Hunger in the New Testament","authors":"Meehyun Chung","doi":"10.1177/09667350211055451","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09667350211055451","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55945,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Theology","volume":"30 1","pages":"236 - 237"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46707829","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":"Reconciliating the Relationship Between Christian Churches and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex+ People: The Letter of São Paulo as a Counter Hegemonic Discourse in Times of Religious Conservatisms","authors":"Tainah Biela Dias, Fernanda Marina Feitosa Coelho","doi":"10.1177/09667350211055446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09667350211055446","url":null,"abstract":"The ‘1st Congress Churches and LGBTI+ Community: ecumenical dialogues for respect for diversity’ was held between 19th and 22nd of June 2019, in the city of São Paulo. The Congress was organised by the Parish of the Holy Trinity of the Episcopal Anglican Church in Brazil and Koinonia–Ecumenical Presence in Service. As we consider this congress a historic landmark in the debates concerning religions and sexualities that escape from cisheteronormativity in Brazil, in the course of this article, we propose to analyse the social and political conjuncture that motivated the event. In a second step, we will briefly describe the structure of the event, as well as its objectives, in order to understand the assumptions that guided the construction of the Letter of São Paulo, the official and public document of the Congress, approved in plenary by the participants. We believe that the Congress and the Letter of São Paulo have political potential, as they claim the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex+ people as people of faith and denounce forms of oppression, exclusion and marginalisation reinforced by conservative and hegemonic religious discourses.","PeriodicalId":55945,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Theology","volume":"30 1","pages":"197 - 209"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42618677","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":"Tara in Vajrayana Buddhism: A Critical Content Analysis","authors":"Gurmeet Kaur","doi":"10.1177/09667350211055444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09667350211055444","url":null,"abstract":"Tara is both a Buddhist and Hindu deity. She is widely worshipped in the esoteric branch of Buddhism: Vajrayana. Even in the exile, Tibetan refugees follow the practice and rituals associated with Tara. Lamentably, she has been given an auxiliary and secondary role in comparison to male deities. Various feminist scholars have begun to look at aspects of society through the lens of gender. They have been at the forefront of studying gender roles and its psychological consequences for those who try to abide by them. In religious studies, especially in Asian context, many of these discourses are difficult to perceive because they were unconsciously appropriated as truth by the people of the society in which they circulated as an inviolable aspect of the worlds or as nature. This study is an attempt to examine the representation of Goddess in various ancient texts as essential to the study of the divine feminine. This hybrid study merges traditional Indology with feminist studies, and is intended for specialists in the field, for readers with interest in Buddhist, and for scholars of Gender studies, cultural historians, and sociologists.","PeriodicalId":55945,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Theology","volume":"30 1","pages":"210 - 221"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43341402","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}