@article{1480644,
      recid = {1480644},
      author = {Fletcher, Jeannine Hill,},
      title = {Motherhood as Metaphor : Engendering Interreligious  Dialogue /},
      pages = {1 online resource (280 p.)},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1480644},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823252206},
}