Feminist Trauma Theologies

Description

With contributions from a diverse team of scholars, Feminist Trauma Theologies is an essential resource for all thinkers and practitioners who are trying to navigate the current conversations around theology, suffering, and feminism.

Sujets

• Religion
• Christianisme
• Christian Theology
• Philosophie et théologie

Informations

• Publié par: Hymns Ancient & Modern
• Date de parution: 28 février 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780334058731
• Langue: English

Extrait

Feminist Trauma Theologies
Body, Scripture and Church in Critical Perspective
Edited by
Karen O’Donnell and Katie Cross





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This book is dedicated to our mothers – Christine and Marie – who showed us what it means to be compassionate, brave and strong.

The survivor who has achieved commonality with others can rest from her labors. Her recovery is accomplished; all that remains before her is her life.
(Judith Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence )




Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Foreword by Shelly Rambo
Introduction
How to Read This Volume
Method in Feminist Trauma Theologies
1. The Voices of the Marys: Towards a Method in Feminist Trauma Theologies
Karen O’Donnell
2. ‘I Have the Power in My Body to Make People Sin’: The Trauma of Purity Culture and the Concept of ‘Body Theodicy’
Katie Cross
Feminist Trauma Theologies: Violence against Women
3. Belief: A Practice of Resistance to the Alchemy of Reality into Incoherence
Hilary Jerome Scarsella
4. Body Remember: Reflecting Theologically on the Experience of Domestic Abuse through the Poetry of Kim Moore
Manon Ceridwen James
5. ‘I Breathe Him in with Every Breath I Take’: Framing Domestic Victimization as Trauma and Coercive Control in Feminist Trauma Theologies
Alistair McFadyen
6. Reading Gomer with Questions: A Trauma-informed Feminist Study of How the Experience of Intimate Partner Violence and the Presence of Religious Belief Shape the Reading of Hosea 2.2–23
Kirsi Cobb
7. Violating Women in the Name of God: Legacies of Remembered Violence
Rosie Andrious
Feminist Trauma Theologies: Christian Communities and Trauma
8. Women in the Pulpit: A History of Oppression and Perseverance
Leah Robinson
9. The Precarious Position of Indian Christian Women in Cinema and Everyday Life
Sonia Soans
10. Broken or Superpowered? Traumatized People, Toxic Doublethink and the Healing Potential of Evangelical Christian Communities
Natalie Collins
Feminist Trauma Theologies: Post-Traumatic Remaking
11. The Changing Self: Forming and Reforming the Imago Dei in Survivors of Domestic Abuse
Ally Moder
12. Losing a Child: A Father’s Methodological Plight
Santiago Piñón
13. The Trauma of Mothers: Motherhood, Violent Crime and the Christian Motif of Forgiveness
Esther McIntosh




List of Contributors
Rosie Andrious is currently a Research Associate within the Theology and Religious Studies Department at King’s College, London. She previously worked as a chaplain and was Head of Spiritual and Pastoral Care in one of the largest NHS trusts in London. She completed her PhD under the supervision of Professor Joan Taylor at King’s College, London, and was also awarded the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice from the King’s Learning Institute. Prior to her ordination in the Church of England in 2001, she read theology as an undergraduate at King’s where she also completed a postgraduate masters in biblical studies. Previously she worked as a part-time lecturer at KCL and a Mental Health Chaplain for the South London and Maundsley NHS Trust. Her research interests include gender studies, women in early Christianity, martyrdom literature and representation of violence. She has published in the areas of biblical studies, contemporary spirituality and chaplaincy.
Kirsi Cobb is Lecturer in Biblical Studies at Cliff College in Derbyshire, UK. Her research focuses on biblical hermeneutics as well as Old Testament studies, with a particular interest in women’s studies. Her recent research projects centre on the presentation and interpretation of women, especially in the Old Testament, exploring ways to read their stories in more empowering ways. Her most recent publication, ‘When Irony Bites Back: A Deconstructive Reading of the Midwives’ Excuse in Exodus 1:19’ (in I. Fischer, ed., Gender Agenda Matters , Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2015) was in part based on her PhD research (2012; forthcoming), which focused on the narrative portrayal of Miriam in Exodus 2, 15 and Numbers 12.
Natalie Collins is a gender justice specialist. She set up Spark ( www.sparkequip.org ) and works to enable individuals and organizations to prevent and respond to male violence against women. She is also the Creator and Director of DAY ( www.dayprogramme.org ), an innovative youth domestic abuse and exploitation education programme. Natalie organizes Project 3:28 ( www.project328.info ), co-founded the UK Christian Feminist Network ( www.christianfeministnetwork.com ), blogs and tweets as God Loves Women and has written a book about Christians and domestic abuse, entitled Out of Control: Couples, Conflict and the Capacity for Change (SPCK, 2019). She speaks and writes on understanding and ending gender injustice nationally and internationally.
Katie Cross is Christ’s College Teaching Fellow in Practical Theology at the University of Aberdeen. She is (in official terms) the first woman to teach for Christ’s College since its foundation in 1843. Her work and teaching are centred on theologies of trauma, suffering and disaster. Katie’s PhD research was a theological engagement with issues of trauma and suffering in an increasingly non-religious UK context, and involved a qualitative study of the Sunday Assembly, a ‘godless’ congregation. A monograph based on this research, entitled The Sunday Assembly and Theologies of Suffering , will be published by Routledge in 2020.
Manon Ceridwen James is the Director of Formation for Licensed Ministry for the St Padarn’s Institute, Church in Wales. Her poetry has appeared in several publications, including Poetry Wales and Envoi . She gained her PhD investigating the role that religion plays in the identity of Welsh women in 2015, and her research has been published in two edited collections of feminist theological qualitative research ( The Faith Lives of Women and Girls and Researching Female Faith , both published by Routledge), and her book Women, Identity and Religion in Wales: Theology, Poetry, Story was published in 2018 by the University of Wales Press.
Al McFadyen is Senior Lecturer in Systematic Theology at the University of Leeds, while also a part-time (unpaid) operational officer in West Yorkshire Police. The views expressed here are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of either organization. His theological work is focused on theological anthropology and the doctrine of sin. He attempts to triangulate secular with theological thought in relation to concrete human situations where humanity is at risk. He has also published on religion and policing. His main publications are The Call to Personhood (Cambridge University Press, 1990) and Bound to Sin: Abuse, Holocaust and the Christian Doctrine of Sin (Cambridge University Press, 2000). In 2014, he was awarded an MBE for services to policing and the community.
Esther McIntosh is currently Subject Director for Theology and Religious Studies and Senior Lecturer in Religion, Philosophy and Ethics at York St John University. She is a feminist theologian and John Macmurray scholar engaged in interdisciplinary research that focuses on definitions of personhood and community, the ethics of personal relations, gender justice and the use of social media by religious communities. Representative publications include: John Macmurray’s Religious Philosophy: What it Means to be a Person (Ashgate and Routledge, 2011); ‘Belonging without Believing: Church as Community in an Age of Digital Media’, International Journal of Public Theology 9:2 (2015); ‘“I Met God, She’s Black”: Racial, Gender and Sexual Equalities in Public Theology’, in S. Kim and K. Day (eds), A Companion to Public Theology (Brill, 2017). In addition, she is currently engaged in a CUF-funded project exploring chaplaincy support for trans and non-binary staff and students in Anglican foundation universities.
Ally Moder is a feminist practical theologian whose interdisciplinary work centres on theological, spiritual and psychological understandings of trauma, mental health and human flourishing. She holds a PhD in practical theology and teaches in this field at multiple universities, in addition to speaking globally on women in leadership and ending violence against women and girls. Through her published articles and popular blogs, she also provides free faith-based resources for survivors of domestic abuse to heal. Ally brings two decades of pastoral ministry to her work as a speaker, author and consultant, and is available at www.allymoder.com .
Karen O’Donnell is