Gender, Theology and Spirituality
About the Book Series
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.
Living Out Sexuality and Faith: Body Admissions of Malaysian Gay and Bisexual Men
1st Edition
By Joseph N. Goh
December 12, 2019
Sexuality, religion and faith often have complex and conflicting interactions, on both personal and societal levels. Numerous studies have been conducted on queer subjects, but they have predominantly focused on ‘Western’ expressions of faith and queer identities. This book contributes to the wider...
Shame, the Church and the Regulation of Female Sexuality
1st Edition
By Miryam Clough
December 12, 2019
Shame strikes at the heart of human individuals rupturing relationships, extinguishing joy and, at times, provoking conflict and violence. This book explores the idea that shame has historically been, and continues to be, used by an oftentimes patriarchal Christian Church as a mechanism to control ...
Schooling Indifference: Reimagining RE in multi-cultural and gendered spaces
1st Edition
By John I'Anson, Alison Jasper
December 10, 2019
This book is concerned with re-imagining Religious Education (RE) as this is practiced in schools, colleges and universities throughout the UK and in a wide variety of international educational contexts.On the basis of a critical analysis of current theory and practice in RE the authors argue that ...
Catholics, Conflicts and Choices: An Exploration of Power Relations in the Catholic Church
1st Edition
By Angela Coco
September 18, 2018
Many Catholics today are disenchanted with the Church's continuing distrust of women and laity. But, despite this widespread dissatisfaction, traditional power relations have hardly changed over the last century. "Catholics, Conflicts and Choices" presents detailed interviews with lay people, ...
Public Theology and the Challenge of Feminism
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephen Burns, Anita Monro
February 12, 2018
Public Theology is a rapidly growing international field of study which focuses on how Christian belief and practice engage with wider social issues. Yet, whilst the ultimate concern of public theology is the well-being of society, this body of theology has largely developed without integrating the...
Searching for the Holy Spirit: Feminist Theology and Traditional Doctrine
1st Edition
By Anne Claar Thomasson-Rosingh
February 12, 2018
Is the doctrine of the Holy Spirit in Christian theology good news or bad news for women? Is the Holy Spirit in traditional Christian doctrine the guardian of the status quo or does it offer the dynamic possibility for change? How do the gifts of the Spirit, ecstatic and relational, inform feminist...
God and Difference: The Trinity, Sexuality, and the Transformation of Finitude
1st Edition
By Linn Marie Tonstad
June 30, 2017
God and Difference interlaces Christian theology with queer and feminist theory for both critical and constructive ends. Linn Marie Tonstad uses queer theory to show certain failures of Christian thinking about God, gender, and sexuality. She employs queer theory to dissect trinitarian discourse ...
Being the Body of Christ: Towards a Twenty-First Century Homosexual Theology for the Anglican Church
1st Edition
By Chris Mounsey
June 28, 2017
The book explores the preoccupation of key twentieth-century English writers with theology and sexuality and how the Anglican Church has responded and continues to respond to the issue of homosexuality. Analysing the work of Oscar Wilde, E. F. Benson, Edward Carpenter, Jeanette Winterson, and Alan ...
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
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
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
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 ...