Women and Christianity, (4 Volume Set)

This new four-volume collection from Routledge brings together the best and most influential scholarship on women and Christianity. It presents an up-to-date, multidisciplinary, and comprehensive compilation of women’s reflection on the Bible and Christian doctrines; women’s religious roles and movements; and contemporary issues facing Christian women around the world.

Volume I : Religious Language and Biblical Interpretation

Part 1 : Approaches to The Study of Christianity
Chapter 1 : Women, Gender, and The Study of Christian History : Church History
Chapter 2 : Gender, Colonialism, and Christianity : Postcolonial Imagination and Feminist Theology
Chapter 3 : African Culture and The Gospel : Inculturation from an African Woman’s Perspective, One Gospel - Many Cultures : Case Studies and Reflections on Cross-Cultural Theology
Chapter 4 : Taking Stock and Building Bridges : Feminism, Women’s Movements, and Pentecostalism in Latin America : Latin American Research Review
Chapter 5 : Moral Wisdom in The Black Women’s Literary Tradition : Katie’s Canon : Womanism and The Soul of The Black Community
Chapter 6 : Mapping The Global Struggle for Women’s Rites : Dissident Daughters : Feminist Liturgies in Global Context

Part 2 : Gender, Religious Language, and Symbols
Chapter 7 : After The Death of God The FaTher : Beyond God The FaTher : Toward a Philosophy of Women’s Liberation
Chapter 8 : Male and Female in Cappadocian Theology : Journal of Theological Studies
Chapter 9 : And Women His Humanity" : Female Imagery in The Religious Writing of The Later Middle Ages, Gender and Religion : On The Complexity of Symbols
Chapter 10 : A Feminist Religious Language : Becoming Divine : Towards a Feminist Philosophy of Religion

Part 3 : Scriptures and Interpretation
Chapter 11 : Reading The Bible with Authority : Feminist Interrogation of The Canon, Escaping Eden : New Feminist Perspectives on The Bible
Chapter 12 : Toward a Post-Colonial Feminist Interpretation of The Bible
Chapter 13 : Womanist Interpretations of The New Testament : The Quest for Holistic and Inclusive Translation and Interpretation : Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion
Chapter 14 : Anti-Judaism in Feminist Christian Interpretation, Searching The Scriptures
Chapter 15 : Depatriarchalizing in Biblical Interpretation : Journal of The American Academy of Religion
Chapter 16 : Outsiders, Aliens, and Boundary Crossers : A Queer Reading of The Hebrew Exodus, Take Back The Word : A Queer Reading of The Bible
Chapter 17 : From Women’s Hands : The Work of Women in The New Testament, in Lydia’s Impatient Sisters : A Feminist Social History of Early Christianity, trans : Barbara and Martin Rumscheidt
Chapter 18 : Smart Syrophoenician Woman : A Dalit Feminist Reading of Mark 7:24–31 : Expository Times
Chapter 19 : Women in The Pre-Pauline and Pauline Churches : Union Seminary Quarterly Review
Chapter 20 : 1 Timothy : What a Problem!, Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth : Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza

Volume II : Doctrines and Religious Practices

Part 4 : Interpretation and Reconstruction of Doctrines
Chapter 21 : God, Sexism, and Transformation, Reconstructing Christian Theology
Chapter 22 : Ecofeminism and The Trinity : in Longing for Running Water : Ecofeminism and Liberation
Chapter 23 : Christology : Can a Male Savior Save Women? : Sexism and God-Talk : Toward a Feminist Theology
Chapter 24 : The Challenge of The Darker Sister : White Women’s Christ and Black Women’s Jesus : Feminist Christology and Womanist Response
Chapter 25 : Jesus-Sophia : She Who Is : The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse
Chapter 26 : Asian Christologies and People’s Religions : Voices from The Third World
Chapter 27 : Feminine Imagery for The Divine : The Holy Spirit, The Odes of Solomon, and Early Syriac Tradition : St Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly
Chapter 28 : The Maternal Body and The Incarnation : God’s MoTher, Eve’s Advocate : A Marian Narrative of Women’s Salvation
Chapter 29 : Surrogacy and Redemption : Sisters in The Wilderness : The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk
Chapter 30 : Communities of The Cross : Christa and The Communal Nature of Redemption : Feminist Theology
Chapter 31 : Justice and The Church : Church in The Round : Feminist Interpretation of The Church
Chapter 32 : Exploding Mystery : Feminist Theology and The Sacramental : Feminist Theology
Chapter 33 : Eschatology, Ecology, and a Green Ecumenacy, Reconstructing Christian Theology

Part 5 : Religious Practices
Chapter 34 : Mary, The MoTher of God : Traditional Mariology and New Questions
Chapter 35 : Sexuality, Gender, and The Body in Late Medieval Women’s Spirituality : Cases from Germany and The NeTherlands : Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion
Chapter 36 : Images of Women in Fourteenth-Century Tuscan Painting : Image as Insight : Visual Understanding in Western Christianity and Secular Culture
Chapter 37 : "Are They True for Us?" : Feminism and Christian Liturgy : In Her Own Rite : Constructing Feminist Liturgical Tradition
Chapter 38 : The Devotion to Escrava Anastácia : Blessed Anastácia : Women, Race, and Popular Christianity in Brazil
Chapter 39 : Christianity and African Women’s Rituals, The Will to Arise : Women, Tradition, and The Church in Africa
Chapter 40 : African-American Spirituals : Confronting and Exorcising Evil through Song, A Troubling in My Soul : Womanist Perspectives on Evil and Suffering
Chapter 41 : A Spirituality for Feminists : The Hope for Wholeness : A Spirituality for Feminists

Volume III : Religious Leadership, Mission, Dialogue, and Movements

Part 6 : Religious Leadership
Chapter 42 : Preachers, Pastors, Prophets, and Patrons : When Women Were Priests : Women’s Leadership in The Early Church and The Scandal of Their Subordination in The Rise of Christianity
Chapter 43 : The Ministry of Women in The Orthodox Church : Some Theological Presuppositions : Journal of Ecumenical Studies
Chapter 44 : The Protestant Women’s Ordination Movement, Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America
Chapter 45 : The Role of Women in The Sanctified Church : Journal of Religious Thought
Chapter 46 : Women in The Church of The Poor : in Our Cry for Life : Feminist Theology from Latin America, trans : Dinah Livingstone

Part 7 : Mission and Conversion
Chapter 47 : Beyond Domesticity : Choctaw Women Negotiating The Tension Between Choctaw Culture and Protestantism : Journal of The American Academy of Religion
Chapter 48 : Christianity, Colonialism, and Women in Latin America in The 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries : Social Compass
Chapter 49 : Gender and Conversion in Colonial India : Converting Women : Gender and Protestant Christianity in Colonial South India
Chapter 50 : World Christianity as a Women’s Movement : International Bulletin of Missionary Research
Chapter 51 : The Gendering of Missionary Imperialism : The Search for an Integrated Methodology : Gender, Religion, and Diversity : Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Chapter 52 : Engendering Christian Mission in Asia : Understanding Women’s Works in The History of Mission : Asian Journal of Women’s Studies

Part 8 : Religious Pluralism and Dialogue
Chapter 53 : Feminism : The Missing Dimension in The Dialogue of Religions, Pluralism and The Religions : The Theological and Political Dimensions
Chapter 54 : Interfaith Dialogue from The Perspective of Feminist Theology in The Multireligious and Multicultural Context of Asia, Drink from Our Own Resources for Creative Ripples : A Feminist Theology for Hope through Inter-faith Dialogue from a Holistic Perspective
Chapter 55 : The Church as Family of God : A Theological Framework for Interfaith Dialogue in The African Context : Voices from The Third World
Chapter 56 : Towards Intercultural Feminist Theologies of Religious Difference : OTher Voices : A Study of Christian Feminist Approaches to Religious Plurality East and West

Part 9 : Religious and Social Movements
Chapter 57 : Reform Movements : ‘You Have Stept Out of Your Place’ : A History of Women and Religion in America
Chapter 58 : Christianity and The Modern Chinese Women’s Movement : Chinese Theological Review
Chapter 59 : A Theology of Peace : Yearning to BreaThe Free : Liberation Theologies in The United States
Chapter 60 : Power of The Word : God’s Peculiar People : Women’s Voices and Folk Tradition in a Pentecostal Church
Chapter 61 : Creating a Liberating Culture : Latinas’ Subversive Narratives, Converging on Culture : Theologians in Dialogue with Cultural Analysis and Criticism
Chapter 62 : A New Way of Facilitating Leadership : Lessons from African Women Theologians
Chapter 63 : Women in The Ecumenical Movement : International Review of Mission

Volume IV : Contemporary Concerns

Part 10 : Embodiment, Sexuality, and Reproduction
Chapter 64 : Notes on Historical Grounding : Beyond Sexual Essentialism : Touching Our Strength : The Erotic as Power and The Love of God
Chapter 65 : Cultural Production and Reproductive Issues : The Significance of The Charismatic Movement in Nigeria, Religion and Sexuality in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Chapter 66 : American Fundamentalism : The Ideal of Femininity, Fundamentalism and Gender
Chapter 67 : Theology and Morality of Procreative Choice, Making The Connections : Essays in Feminist Social Ethics
Chapter 68 : The Indecent Virgin : Indecent Theology : Theological Perversions in Sex, Gender and Politics
Chapter 69 : Conspicuous Compassion : Race, "Disability", and Salvific Imperialism : Spirit and The Politics of Disablement
Chapter 70 : AIDS : Globalization and Its Discontent

Part 11 : Religion and Violence
Chapter 71 : Choosing to Remain Silent : Links between Gender Violence, HIV/AIDS and The South African Church, African Women, HIV/AIDS, and Faith Communities
Chapter 72 : When Justice Collapses : A Religious Response to Sexual Violence and Trafficking in Women in Asia, Off The Menu : Asian and Asian North American Women’s Religion and Theology
Chapter 73 : "I’se in Town, Honey" : Marketing Aunt Jemima : Womanist Ethics and The Cultural Production of Evil
Chapter 74 : From "Civilizing" to Colonizing to Respectfully Collaborating? New Zealand : Theology Today
Chapter 75 : Militarism in North American Perspective, Women Resisting Violence : Spirituality for Life
Chapter 76 : The Demands of Peace and Reconciliation : Feminist Theology

Part 12 : Religion, Nature, and Science
Chapter 77 : Women and The Ordering of Nature : Sacred Gaia : Holistic Theology and Earth System Science
Chapter 78 : "A Very Rare and Difficult Thing" : Ecofeminism, Attention to Animal Suffering, and The Disappearance of The Subject, A Communion of Subjects : Animals in Religion, Science, and Ethics
Chapter 79 : Where We Live : Urban EcoTheology : A New Climate for Theology : God, The World, and Global Warming
Chapter 80 : Genetics, Ethics, and Feminist Theology : Some Recent Directions : Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion
Chapter 81 : Imaging God : Cyborgs, Brain-machine Interfaces, and a More Human Future

Part 13 : Globalization, Transnationalism, Migration, and Diaspora
Chapter 82 : Justice and Fullness of Life in The Context of Economic Globalization : An African Woman’s Perspective : Reformed World
Chapter 83 : Globalization, Transnational Feminisms, and The Future of Biblical Critique, Feminist New Testament Studies : Global and Future Perspectives
Chapter 84 : Faith on The Edge : Religion and Women in The Context of Migration : Feminist Theology
Chapter 85 : Gender, Identity, and Power in African Immigrant Evangelical Churches, African Immigrant Religions in America
Chapter 86 : The Unnamed Woman : Justice, Feminists, and The Undocumented Woman, A Reader in Latina Feminist Theology : Religion and Justice