A Third Way: Explicating the Post in Post-Christian Feminism

Title
A Third Way: Explicating the Post in Post-Christian Feminism
Publication Date
2008
Author(s)
Gray, Frances Marie
Phillips, K
Editor
Editor(s): Lisa Isherwood, Kathleen McPhillips
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Ashgate Publishing
Place of publication
Aldershot, United Kingdom
Edition
1
UNE publication id
une:2222
Abstract
Much feminist debate in religion concerns the place of text in religious discourses, the weight and authority that should be given to those texts and the relationship between text and lived experience.2 The question of whose lived experience is represented in the debates and in the texts has recently become the focus of womanist/feminist theorizing in Australian religious feminist circles. Both Anne Pattel-Gray and Elaine Wainwright have insisted that a valorizing politics of difference must inform feminist theory in the theological/religious domain, specifically in relation to hegemonic religious texts. They have argued that biblical readings can be exclusivist by either hiding multiple subjectivities or silencing the very possibility of giving voice to the oppressed. This paper considers this problematic - associated with textual interpretation and lived experience, beginning with the work of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza.
Link
Citation
Post-Christian Feminisms: A Critical Approach, p. 167-177
ISBN
9780754653806
0754653803
Start page
167
End page
177

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