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Feminist New Testament Studies RELIGION/CULTURE/CRITIQUE Series editor: Elizabeth A. Castelli How Hysterical: Identification and Resistance in the Bible and Film By Erin Runions (2003) Connected Places: Region, Pilgrimage, and Geographical Imagination in India Anne Feldhaus (2003) Representing Religion in World Cinema: Filmmaking, Mythmaking, Culture Making Edited by S. Brent Plate (2003) Derrida's Bible (Reading a Page ofS cripture with a Little Help from Derrida) Yvonne Sherwood (2004) FEMINIST NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES GLOBAL AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES Edited by KATHLEEN O'BRIEN WICKER, ALTHEA SPENCER MILLER, AND MUSA W. DUBE Palgrave macmillan * FEMINIST NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES © Kathleen O'Brien Wicker, Musa W. Dube, and Althea Spencer Miller, 2005. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1s t edition 2005 978-1-4039-6870-8 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. First published in 2005 by PALGRAVE MACMILLANTM 175 Fifth Avenue, NewYorl<, N.Y. 10010 and Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England RG21 6XS Companies and representatives throughout the world. PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of st. Martin's Press, LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries. Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. ISBN 978-1-4039-6871-5 ISBN 978-1-137-11204-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-137-11204-0 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Feminist New Testament studies: global and future perspectives / edited by Kathleen O'Brien Wicker, Musa W. Dube, Althea Spencer Miller. p. cm.-(Religion/culture/critique) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Bible. N.T.-Feminist criticism-Congresses. 2. Globalization-Religious aspects-Christianity-Congresses. 3. Globalization-Social aspects-Congresses. I. Wicker, Kathleen O'Brien. II. Dube Shomanah, Musa W., 1964-111. Spencer Miller, Althea, 1955-IV. Series. BS2379.F462005 225.6'082---dc22 2005043176 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: November 2005 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Dedicated to Mary Wig Johnson (1913-2003) Scripps College Alumna and Trustee and The Women and The Community of Scripps College Contents Series Editor's Foreword lX Foreword Xl Preface and Acknowledgments X111 List ofC ontributors xv Introduction 1. Kathleen O'Brien Wicker 1. Feminist Pedagogies: Implications of a Liberative Praxis 17 Althea Spencer Miller Conversation One: Europe and North America 41 2. The Power of the Word: Charting Critical Global Feminist Biblical Studies 43 Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza 3. Globalization, Transnational Feminisms, and the Future of Biblical Critique 63 Elizabeth A. Castelli 4. Response: Globalization, Transnational Feminisms, and the Future of Biblical Critique 79 Sheila Briggs 5. The Challenge of "Blackness" for Rearticulating the Meaning of Global Feminist New Testament Interpretation 85 Gay L. Byron 6. Response: Paradoxes of Positionality as the Key to Feminist New Testament Studies 103 Karen Jo Torjesen 7. Reflections on Conversation One 109 Sonya Gravlee, Erin Jacklin, and Prinny Stephens viii CONTENTS Conversation Two: Asia and Latin America 113 8. My Journey as a Latin American Feminist New Testament Scholar 115 Aida Besanron Spencer 9. Response: A Framework Toward Solidarity and Justice 131 Elizabeth Conde-Frazier 10. Biblical Studies in the Twenty-First Century: A Japanese/Asian Feminist Glimpse 137 Hisako Kinukawa 11. Response: An Asian Buddhist Response to a Japanese Feminist Glimpse of Biblical Studies in the Twenty-First Century 151 Zhiru 12. Feminist Theologies in Latin America 159 Rosemary Radford Ruether 13. Reflections on Conversation Two 171 Holly Hight and Lydia Sohn Conversation Three: Mrica and the Diaspora 175 14. Rahab is Hanging Out a Red Ribbon: One Mrican Woman's Perspective on the Future of Feminist New Testament Scholarship 177 MusaW. Dube 15. Response: A Perilous Passage From Scarlet Cord to Red Ribbon 203 Isabel Balseiro 16. Lucy Bailey Meets the Feminists 209 Althea Spencer Miller 17. Response: Lucy Bailey, "Likkle but Tallawah" 239 Lincoln E. Galloway 18. SignifYing on Scriptures: An Mrican Diaspora Proposal for Radical Readings 245 Vincent L. Wimbush 19. Reflections on Conversation Three 259 Noelle Champagne, Filiberto Nolasco Gomez, and Katrina Vtm Heest Index of Proper Names 264 Index ofA ncient Sources 267 Series Editor's Foreword RELIGION/CULTURE/CRITIQUE is a series devoted to publishing work that addresses religion's centrality in a wide range of settings and debates, both contemporary and historical, and that critically engages the category of "religion" itself. This series is conceived as a place where readers will be invited to explore how "religion" -whether embodied in texts, practices, communities, and ideologies-intersects with social and political interests, institutions, and identities. The study of scriptures has long been central to the academic study of religion. Feminist New Testament Studies: Global and Future Perspectives invites its readers to undertake a political remapping of this enterprise both in light of more than a gener ation of critical feminist engagement with scriptural interpretation and in response to many postcolonial challenges to the historical construction of Christianity as prima rily a European and North American phenomenon. This volume maps a counterin tuitive terrain and records an array of feminist voices from around the globe, opening up a new critical geography for the study of the religious texts of the Christian tradi tion. The contributors to this volume struggle with the ambivalent implications of globalism and globalization. They explore the tensions embedded in the notion of "scripture" itself, a notion that is as tied up with questions of canon, authority, nor mativity, and constraint as it is with practices of critical rereading, productive and countercultural resistance, and liberation. The contributors to this volume do not ask, "What does scripture mean?" but rather, "How does scripture work in the serv ice of various political, social, and theological ends?" Writing from a range of subject positions and social locations, the scholars whose work appears in this collection raise a substantive challenge to the field of the academic study of religious texts. Their work therefore makes an important contribution to the conversations that this series hopes to stage. New York City Elizabeth A. Castelli February 2005 RELIGION/CULTURE/CRITIQUE Series Editor
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