Divine Words, Female Voices: Muslima Explorations in Comparative Feminist Theology PDF
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i Divine Words, Female Voices ii iii Divine Words, Female Voices Muslima Explorations in Comparative Feminist Theology z JERUSHA TANNER LAMPTEY 1 iv 1 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America. © Oxford University Press 2018 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Lamptey, Jerusha Tanner, author. Title: Divine words, female voices : muslima explorations in comparative feminist theology / Jerusha Tanner Lamptey. Description: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018016581 (print) | LCCN 2018017905 (ebook) | ISBN 9780190653385 (updf) | ISBN 9780190653392 (epub) | ISBN 9780190653408 (online content) | ISBN 9780190653378 (cloth) Subjects: LCSH: Feminist theology. | Qur’an—Feminist criticism. | Bible—Feminist criticism. | Women in the Bible. | Women in the Qur’an. | Women in the Hadith. Classification: LCC BT83.55 (ebook) | LCC BT83.55 .L357 2018 (print) | DDC 297.2082—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018016581 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed by Sheridan Books, Inc., United States of America v To those who critically love tradition, craft pragmatic presents, and imagine more just futures vi vii Contents Acknowledgments xi 1. Beyond the Poisoned Wells: Introduction 1 Power, Stereotyping, Dominance 2 Islam and/ or Feminism? 6 Navigating Tensions: Strategies and Critiques 11 Interreligious Feminist Engagement: Impasse or Opportunity? 15 Beyond the Poisoned Wells: Overview 18 2. Muslima Theology as Comparative Feminist Theology 21 Muslima Theology: Constructive, Theological, and Comparative 22 Comparative Theology to Comparative Feminist Theology 28 A New Conversation: Word and Word 36 3. Words in the World: The Qur’an and Jesus Christ in Context 43 The Qur’an in the World 44 Jesus Christ in the World 52 Rosemary Radford Ruether: Liberator Jesus of the Synoptic Gospels 54 Kwok Pui- lan: The Hybrid Jesus/ Christ 57 Jacquelyn Grant: Black Women’s Jesus 59 Ada María Isasi- Díaz: Jesucristo 62 Hybridity, Experience, Preference: Muslima Theological Reflections 65 viii viii Contents 4. Claiming Texts: Hermeneutical Approaches to Ahadith and the Bible 83 Hadith Engagement: Authentication and Beyond 84 Biblical Exegesis: Strategies, Imperialism, Agency 93 Elizabeth Schüssler Fiorenza: Women- Church, Conscientization, Hermeneutics 94 Musa W. Dube: Decolonial Biblical Interpretation and Semoya Spaces 97 Phyllis Trible: Genesis 2– 3 and Woman’s Agency 101 Knowledge, Critical Engagement, Reclamation: Muslima Theological Reflections 104 5. Bearers of the Words: Muhammad and Mary as Feminist Exemplars 121 Prophet Muhammad: (Hu)man and Model 122 Mary: Liberated and Liberating? 130 Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza: Mariology and the Dangerous Mary 131 Elina Vuola: Mary as Familiar and Beyond 134 Marcella Althaus- Reid: Mary, Queer of Heaven 136 Gendered Emulation and a Prophetic Prophet: Muslima Theological Reflections 140 6. Women in the World: Human Nature, Constraint, and Transformation 156 Tawhid, Fitra, Khilafah, and Taqwa 157 Embodiment, Freedom, and Survival 166 M. Shawn Copeland: Black Women, Embodiment, Solidarity 167 Jeannine Hill Fletcher: Relationality and Constrained Creativity 170 Delores S. Williams: Hagar and Survival, Quality of Life 173 Transformative Taqwa: Muslima Theological Reflections 176 7. Enacting Equality: Ritual Prayer, Tradition, and Community 190 Ritual Prayer, Inclusion, and Gendered Assumptions 191 Black Church, Male Symbols, Tradition, and Ritual 200 ix Contents ix Delores S. Williams: Black Church and African American Denominational Churches 201 Elizabeth A. Johnson: Male Symbols, God, Change 202 Rosemary Radford Ruether: Tradition, Experience, Crisis 204 Traci C. West: Ritual, Norms, White Superiority 206 Embodied Equality and Transformative Community: Muslima Theological Reflections 209 8. Epilogue: Living Words, Diverse Voices 225 Notes 227 Bibliography 265 Index 281
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