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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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Women's Socioeconomic Status and Religious Leadership in Asia Minor: In the First Two Centuries C.E.
Moving beyond discussions of patriarchy and prescribed "women's roles" in the Roman world Katherine Bain explores what inscriptional data from Asia Minor can tell us about the actual socioeconomic status of women in the first and second centuries C.E.
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Future of the Prophetic: Israel's Ancient Wisdom Re-presented
The new situation of contemporary prophetic challenges the fixed religious landscape of Judaism by reversing traditional boundaries, eschewing power and privilege, and brokering peace through solidarity and common struggle in ecumenical and interfaith contexts.
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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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Extremist for Love: Martin Luther King Jr., Man of Ideas and Nonviolent Social Action
Martin Luther King Junior is a rare mix of the deeply profound thinker and intellect who put the fruit of that reflection into the service of direct social action.
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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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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.
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Transforming Vision: Explorations in Feminist The*logy
Drawing from a career of pioneering scholarship, Schüssler Fiorenza situates the critical feminist theory that has characterized her work in the praxis of...
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Quest for a Black Theology
The late 1960s witnessed tumult over the Vietnam War, the deaths of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., rioting by African Americans in major U.S. cities, and...
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Frontiers in Catholic Feminist Theology: Shoulder to Shoulder
What does it mean to be a Catholic woman with feminist commitments today, and what insights can be garnered from that context? In this first attempt in a...
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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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From Patmos to the Barrio: Subverting Imperial Myths
Sánchez's subject is the power of imperial myths — and the subversive power unleashed when resistance movements take over those myths for their own...
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Creative Exchange: A Constructive Theology of African American Religious Experience
At least until recently, most African Americans would know what is meant by "the black church" or by "African American religion." But now,...
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Taking Up the Cross: New Testament Interpretations through Latina and Feminist Eyes
Discussions of the meaning of Jesus' passion are at a creative high point, in part because of popular events like Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, and...
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Emerging Heart: Global Spirituality and the Sacred
Millions of Americans have adopted and adapted spiritual practices and virtues from a variety of traditions. What are they looking for? Theologian and retreat...
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Feminist Theologies: Legacy and Prospect
This indispensable volume traces the rapidly evolving feminist scene in theology over the last generation and highlights specific contributions that have been...
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Radical Wisdom: A Feminist Mystical Theology
Lanzetta illuminates the transformative potential of the classical tradition of women mystics, especially in light of contemporary violence against women around...
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