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Gender, Theology and Spirituality

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The series explores the gendered nature and practice of theology and spirituality and aims to extend the boundaries of theology through materialist and radical analysis.

20 Series Titles


Elsie Chamberlain The Independent Life of a Woman Minister

Elsie Chamberlain: The Independent Life of a Woman Minister

1st Edition

By Alan Argent
June 16, 2017

Elsie Chamberlain was a leading figure in British broadcasting and religious life. She was a pioneer in many areas: the first woman chaplain to the armed forces; the first nonconformist minister to marry an Anglican clergyman; the first woman producer in the religious broadcasting dept of the BBC ...

Reinterpreting the Eucharist Explorations in Feminist Theology and Ethics

Reinterpreting the Eucharist: Explorations in Feminist Theology and Ethics

1st Edition

Edited By Anne F. Elvey, Carol Hogan, Kim Power, Claire Renkin
June 16, 2017

The Eucharist continues to be central to contemporary Christian religious tradition and to be the focus for a wide range of assumptions and disputes. Chief amongst these disputes is the role of women in the theology and the ritual of the Eucharist.Reinterpreting the Eucharist brings together a ...

Radical Otherness Sociological and Theological Approaches

Radical Otherness: Sociological and Theological Approaches

1st Edition

By Lisa Isherwood, David Harris
September 02, 2014

The problem of otherness is central to debates in both the social sciences and theology. To define the other – by colour, gender, politics, nationality, or religion – is to define the self. Othering has been used through history as a justification for boundary-setting, for conflict and for ...

Sexual Hospitality in the Hebrew Bible Patronymic, Metronymic, Legitimate and Illegitimate Relations

Sexual Hospitality in the Hebrew Bible: Patronymic, Metronymic, Legitimate and Illegitimate Relations

1st Edition

By Thalia Gur-Klein
August 14, 2014

A woman's life in the ancient world was constrained by her social and economic status. As a daughter she was firmly under the aegis of her father and brothers, who would later allocate the woman to another man as his wife. The power of fathers and husbands extended to using their wives and ...

Numen, Old Men Contemporary Masculine Spiritualities and the Problem of Patriarchy

Numen, Old Men: Contemporary Masculine Spiritualities and the Problem of Patriarchy

1st Edition

By Joseph Gelfer
August 08, 2014

Since the early 1990s there have been various movements designed to encourage 'masculine spirituality'. All these movements share a concern that spirituality has become too feminine and that men's experiences of the spiritual are being marginalized. The task of masculine spirituality is to promote ...

Patriarchs, Prophets and Other Villains

Patriarchs, Prophets and Other Villains

1st Edition

By Lisa Isherwood
August 08, 2014

Patriarchs, Prophets and Other Villains takes as a starting point the hermeneutics of suspicion. The book illustrates the way in which texts and interpretations have been manipulated for the purpose of power and control. Through careful-counter readings it challenges the ways in which the female ...

Ritual Making Women Shaping Rites for Changing Lives

Ritual Making Women: Shaping Rites for Changing Lives

1st Edition

By Jan Berry
August 08, 2014

Ritual Making Women looks at the way in which women's making of ritual has emerged from the rapidly developing field of women's spirituality and theology. The author uses ethnographic material to explore how the construction of ritual uses story-making and embodied action to empower women. Ritual, ...

Women and Reiki Energetic/Holistic Healing in Practice

Women and Reiki: Energetic/Holistic Healing in Practice

1st Edition

By Judith MacPherson
August 08, 2014

'Women and Reiki' is the first ethnographic study of Reiki and energetic healing in Britain. The book argues that if we are to build an accurate and comprehensive picture of healing we must examine the role of gender, representation and power. Although women healers predominate at the grass roots ...

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