Jesus and the Politics of Interpretation

Fiorenza, Elisabeth Schüssler

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“…I will draw on a wide variety of disciplines from music, education, humanistic psychology (particularly Assagioli 1994;Myers 1993;Myers & McCaulley 1985), sociology, gender studies and theology (particularly Grey 1993;Fiorenza 2000;Isherwood & Stuart 1998;McEwan, Pinsent, Pratt & Seddon 2001;Neu 2003;Stuart 1996;Wootton 2000). I have identified certain polarities, which are in dynamic relationship (Boyce-Tillman 2000).…”

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Liberating language and concepts of the divine in contemporary hymnody

Boyce‐Tillman

2017

Verbum Eccles.

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This article will examine from an auto-ethnographic perspective the language of hymnody and how it has developed over the last 25 years through the period of secularisation and postsecularisation. It will interrogate and analyse the words used for the Divine in a drive towards an inclusive language approach to God. It will look at the arguments of feminist theologians towards feminine images for the Divine and then how far these images will be acceptable in secular contexts, especially in secular rituals that include people from a variety of belief backgrounds in a post-secular world. It will use examples from woman writers and draw on the author’s experience of revising her own hymns for a variety of contexts. These will be interrogated in the light of debates around spiritual but not religious, multifaith dialogue and post-secularisation. It will look at a variety of approaches to the Christian narrative in contemporary UK – devotional, cultural and story – examining the language appropriate for these various approaches and various contexts.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: Hymnology crosses the disciplines of music, theology, liturgy and ritual (sacred and secular) and has implications for all these areas, especially Church liturgy and sacred music in secular contexts. It is lyrical theology, which spans the arts and theology and expresses theological ideas in an artistic form.

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Liberating language and concepts of the divine in contemporary hymnody

Boyce‐Tillman

2017

Verbum Eccles.

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Religious Identity and Epistemic Injustice: An Intersectional Account

Rekis

2023

Hypatia

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In this article, I argue in favor of an intersectional account of religious identity to better make sense of how religious subjects can be treated with epistemic injustice. To do this, I posit two perspectives through which to view religious identity: as a social identity and as a worldview. I argue that these perspectives shed light on the unique ways in which religious subjects can be epistemically harmed. From the first perspective, religious subjects can be harmed when their religion is racialized or when their gender and dress are mistakenly thought to be predictive of their beliefs and practices. As an instance of this, I focus on the epistemic harms facing Muslim women who practice veiling. From the worldview perspective, religious subjects can be harmed when we, by contrast, underestimate the force of the connections between religion, race, and gender. Such connections can give rise to intersectionally rich theologies that can in turn be marginalized and denied credibility. To illuminate the worldview perspective, I focus on Christian abolitionist and feminist Sojourner Truth.

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Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza and the Quest for the Historical Jesus

Walters

2020

Open Theology

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The feminist theological and historical work of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza has been met with diverging responses. For feminist biblical scholars, Schüssler Fiorenza is essential reading, with even her works from the 1970s and 1980s still standing as key reference points. For mainstream (“malestream”) biblical scholarship, however, her entire body of writing is typically ignored, including within historical Jesus research (HJR), despite its value in both problematising and advancing the so-called Quests for the Historical Jesus. By evaluating and synthesising Schüssler Fiorenza’s HJR work on fundamentalism, feminism, and anti-Semitism, this article situates the effects of Schüssler Fiorenza’s work and the credibility of her critics within the Quests. While the themes Schüssler Fiorenza addresses, such as feminism and Judaism, are key features of the Third Quest, Schüssler Fiorenza’s proposals with regard to HJR, including the politics of interpretation, the shift to memory and orality studies, and the evaluation of meaning-making itself, are theoretically critical and self-reflexive in a way which the Third Quest has rarely been. Given the emphasis Schüssler Fiorenza places on self-evaluation, and her critical examination of the work of her peers in HJR, one is led to consider the possibility that her work may represent a Third Quest Critical-Stream, or even a Fourth Quest.

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Jesus and the Politics of Interpretation

Cited by 3 publications

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Liberating language and concepts of the divine in contemporary hymnody

Liberating language and concepts of the divine in contemporary hymnody

Religious Identity and Epistemic Injustice: An Intersectional Account

Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza and the Quest for the Historical Jesus

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