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Dem Dry Bones: Preaching, Death, and Hope
In an age when the so-called prosperity gospel holds sway in many Christian communities or the good news of Christ is reduced to feel-good bromides...
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Plantations and Death Camps: Religion, Ideology, and Human Dignity
Historical theologian Beverly Mitchell probes some of the most egregious assaults on humans in the modern era to divine not only the root of racial and ethnic...
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Making a Way Out of No Way: A Womanist Theology
In her new book, Monica A. Coleman articulates the African American expression of "making a way out of no way" for today's context of globalization,...
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Her Story: Women in Christian Tradition, Second Edition
An accessible, introductory text first published by Fortress Press in 1983, Her Story: Women in Christian History has sold over 30,000 copies of the first...
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What Is African American Religion?: Facets series
Is there really a monolithic "black church"? Distilling the arguments of Pinn's important and provocative work in Terror and Triumph, this brief work asks the...
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Suffering and Salvation in Ciudad Juárez
Nancy Pineda-Madrid's powerful reflection on this destructive and dehumanizing violence, based on first-hand knowledge of the traumatic situation in Juárez,...
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Transformative Lutheran Theologies: Feminist, Womanist, and Mujerista Perspectives
The first of its kind, this book is a systematic representation of Lutheran feminist, womanist, and mujerista theologies: systematic, in that it addresses...
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Texts of Terror: Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives
Professor Trible focuses on four variations upon the theme of terror in the Bible. By combining the discipline of literary criticism with the hermeneutics of...
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Planetary Solidarity: Global Women’s Voices on Christian Doctrine and Climate Justice
Planetary Solidarity brings together leading Latina, womanist, Asian American, Anglican American, South American, Asian, European, and African woman theologians on the issues of doctrine, women, and climate justice. The book creatively engages Christian doctrine with the purpose of addressing the myriad ways climate change impacts the health and livelihood of women around the globe. The contributors focus their reflections around the following doctrines: creation, the triune God, anthropology, sin, incarnation, redemption, the Holy Spirit, ecclesiology, and eschatology.
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Racial Purity and Dangerous Bodies: Moral Pollution, Black Lives, and the Struggle for Justice
At the center of contemporary struggles over aggressive policing practices is an assumed association in U.S. culture of blackness with criminality. Rima L. Vesely-Flad examines the religious...
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Healing in the Gospel of Matthew: Reflections on Method and Ministry
Walter T. Wilson adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the healing narratives in the Gospel of Matthew, combining the familiar methods of form, redaction, and narrative criticisms with insights culled from medical anthropology, feminist theory, disability studies, and ancient archaeology.
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Interreligious Learning and Teaching: A Christian Rationale for a Transformative Praxis
There is still resistance in Christian institutions to interreligious dialogue. this attitude belies the current culture in which we live, which constantly exposes us to the beliefs and practices of others. Kristin Johnston Largen sees this setting as an opportunity and seeks to provide not only the theological grounding for such a position but also some practical advice on how both to teach and live out this conviction.
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Diasporic Feminist Theology: Asia and Theopolitical Imagination
Diasporic Feminist Theology attempts to construct feminist theology by adopting diaspora as a theopolitical and ethical metaphor. The author here constructs diasporic, transethnic, and glocal feminist theological discourses that create spaces of transformation, reconciliation, and solidarity.
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The Woman Babylon and the Marks of Empire: Reading Revelation with a Postcolonial Womanist Hermeneutics of Ambiveilence
Here Shanell T. Smith brings the categories of race/ethnicity and class to bear on John's metaphors of the "Great Whore" and highlights the simultaneous duality of the woman Babylon characterization.
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Empowering Memory and Movement: Thinking and Working across Borders
With Empowering Memory and Movement, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza completes a three-volume look across her influential work and career. Empowering Memory and Movement looks back, but also assesses current challenges and potentialities on the global scene, and envisions an emancipatory future, with a critical and wise engagement with scripture and the interpretive tradition always at the center.
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Redeeming a Prison Society: A Liturgical and Sacramental Response to Mass Incarceration
The United States criminal justice system is in a state of crisis, from unprecedented rates of imprisonment and recidivism to the privatization of the prison system and the disproportionate representation of particular racial, ethnic, social, and economic groups. Amy Levad offers a Catholic perspective that directly addresses the concrete issues from a strongly interdisciplinary approach and utilizes the rich liturgical and sacramental resources of penance and Eucharist to offer a theological vision of reform.
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Mapping Exile and Return: Palestinian Dispossession and a Political Theology for a Shared Future
Through an analysis of Palestinian refugee mapping practices for returning to their homeland, Alain Epp Weaver offers a political theology of redrawing the territory compatible with a bi-national vision for a shared Palestinian-Israeli future.
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Abraham Our Father: Paul and the Ancestors in Postcolonial Africa
Kamudzandu offers at last a model of multi-cultural Christianity forged in the experience of postcolonial Zimbabwe.
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Ain't I a Womanist, Too?: Third Wave Womanist Religious Thought
This volume gathers essays from established and emerging scholars whose work is among the most lively and innovative scholarship today.
$34.00
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Leviticus and Numbers: Texts @ Contexts series
Leviticus and Numbers focuses attention on practices and ideals of behavior in community, from mourning and diet to marriages licit and transgressive, examining all of these from a variety of global perspectives and postcolonial and feminist methods.
$49.00
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