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008			130401s2013 nyu b 001 0 eng
020			_a9780823251179 (hardback)
020			_a9780823251186 (paper)
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084			_aREL105000 _aSOC010000 _aREL102000 _2bisacsh
100	1		_aHill Fletcher, Jeannine.
245	1	0	_aMotherhood as metaphor : _bengendering interreligious dialogue / _cJeannine Hill Fletcher.
250			_aFirst edition
260			_aNew York _bFordham University Press _c2013
300			_axv, 260 pages ; _c23 cm.
490	0		_aBordering religions
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 241-253) and index.
520			_a"This volume takes women's voices and experiences as the primary data for thinking about interfaith encounter in the modern world. It places original work on women in mission, the secular women's movement and women in interreligious dialogue in conversation with theological anthropology, feminist theory and theology"--
520			_a"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 the Second World War; 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"--
650		0	_aWomen and religion.
650		0	_aWomen _xReligious aspects.
650		0	_aTheological anthropology.
650		7	_aRELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aRELIGION / Theology. _2bisacsh
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