Motherhood as Metaphor : Engendering Interreligious Dialogue / Jeannine Hill Fletcher.
2013
BL458 .F59 2013eb
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Motherhood as Metaphor : Engendering Interreligious Dialogue / Jeannine Hill Fletcher.
ISBN
9780823252206
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2013]
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©2013
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English
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In English.
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1 online resource (280 p.)
Item Number
10.1515/9780823252206 doi
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BL458 .F59 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
200.82
Summary
Who is my neighbor? As our world has increasingly become a single place, this question posed in the gospel story is heard as an interreligious inquiry. Yet studies of encounter across religious lines have largely been framed as the meeting of male leaders. What difference does it make when women's voices and experiences are the primary data for thinking about interfaith engagement?Motherhood as Metaphor draws on three historical encounters between women of different faiths: first, the archives of the Maryknoll Sisters working in China before World War II; second, the experiences of women in the feminist movement around the globe; and third, a contemporary interfaith dialogue group in Philadelphia. These sites provide fresh ways of thinking about our being human in the relational, dynamic messiness of our sacred, human lives.Each part features a chapter detailing the historical, archival, and ethnographic evidence of women's experience in interfaith contact through letters, diaries, speeches, and interviews of women in interfaith settings. A subsequent chapter considers the theological import of these experiences, placing them in conversation with modern theological anthropology, feminist theory, and theology. Women's experience of motherhood provides a guiding thread through the theological reflections recorded here. This investigation thus offers not only a comparative theology based on believers' experience rather than on texts alone but also new ways of conceptualizing our being human. The result is an interreligious theology, rooted in the Christian story but also learning across religious lines.
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Bordering Religions: Concepts, Conflicts, and Conversations
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
CONTENTS
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Introduction: We Feed Them Milk
Part I. In Mission and Motherhood
1. Encounter in the Mission Fields
2. We Meet in Multiplicity
Part II. In the Sacred Secular
3. Encounter in Global Feminist Movements
4. Creativity Under Constraint
Part III. In Lives Intertwined
5. Encounter in Philadelphia
6. The Dynamic Self as Knower
Conclusion: Seeking Salvation
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
CONTENTS
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Introduction: We Feed Them Milk
Part I. In Mission and Motherhood
1. Encounter in the Mission Fields
2. We Meet in Multiplicity
Part II. In the Sacred Secular
3. Encounter in Global Feminist Movements
4. Creativity Under Constraint
Part III. In Lives Intertwined
5. Encounter in Philadelphia
6. The Dynamic Self as Knower
Conclusion: Seeking Salvation
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX