Tending to Stories in Feminist Theologies

Interdisciplinary Renderings of Faith, Hope and Love
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-90821-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 505 g

Reihe: Gender, Theology and Spirituality

Tending to Stories in Feminist Theologies is interested in the place of story-tellers in communities of hope. Where some theologies wrestle for clarity of definition, feminist and other theologies of liberation begin from experience and tend towards story as a vehicle for speaking of the Divine. Ambiguity and precision both find their place. This collection embraces different materials to explore the place of stories and narrative within feminist theology, to explore how meaning ‘happens’, to seek justice, and to forge compassion. As for theology, so too with form. This volume does not just discuss but actively demonstrates a variety of ways in which stories can be heard and held. Between and within chapters, the authors weave together artwork, literature, creative non-fiction, and poetic form with critically informed and academic exposition to invite reflection on the place of story in creating solidarity and enabling community. The book contributes to scholarly conversations on feminist theological method, on the relationship between the arts and theology, and on the dialogue between secular and sacred in Australasia and elsewhere.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kadmos, Helena

Massam, Katharine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Stories of Process  1.Origins: An Introduction  Part 2: Stories of Ecologies  2. Hidden in Plain Sight: Story as Methodology 3. Being among the Storied Life of Trees 4. Moved and Moving: The Possibilities of Storying and Art-making for Worlds in Flux Rebekah Pryor  Part 3: Stories of Women and Jesus  5. Divine Sisterhood 6. Veronica in the Roman Catholic Stations of the Cross 7. A Woman, her Bleeding and Lemon-scented Theology through a Liberative Disability Lens Wendy Elson  Part 4: Stories of the Past Remembered  8. Left Alone: Examining a Storied Interpretation of Acts 16:16–19 9. Mary of Egypt: A Theological Queering 10. When Stories Collide: A Relationship between Women Centuries Apart 11. Good Grace: Stories of Emotion and Women’s Experience in the Methodist Mission to Papua  Part 5: Stories of Fractures and Healing  12. Self-Realisation and Participation in the Divine: A Surmountable Tension? 13. Listening as Sacrament: An Act of Solidarity with the Spirit 14. Writing a Liturgy to Mark the Termination of Pregnancy: Reflections on Process and Vulnerability 15. Relational Autonomy Through Intergenerational Storytelling  Part 6: Stories of Truth-telling  16. Tending and Befriending: Reframing Solidarity as Relational Praxis 17. ‘Mirth is Next to Grace’: Humour, Danger and the Stories that Liberate 18. Creating Space to Tell us True.  Index

Über Autor(innen)

Helena Kadmos is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Notre Dame Australia, on the Fremantle campus on Wadjuk Country, and a writer of short fiction and non-fiction.

Katharine Massam is Professor of History and Chair of the Academic Board at the University of Divinity, based at St Paschal’s campus on Wurundjeri-Woi-wurrung Country in Melbourne, Australia.