From the Shores of Silence

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Feminist practical theology has emerged in the gap between wider feminist and wider practical theology. It celebrates distinctive concerns, arguments, emphases, and questions – unafraid to re-form practical theology in shape and substance, and to guide feminist theology towards the silences and stories of human lives that some professional theologies (including those shaped by feminist commitments) sometimes overlooks. Feminist practical theology is bold in exploration of doctrinal themes in poetic and prayerful modes, characteristically collaborative and in search of alliances with other advocacy perspectives. In the UK, such commitments have been exemplified by Nicola Slee, whom this volume honours. Chapters invite readers into wide ranging conversations that flow from young women’s experiences at university, poetic practice as theology, queer priesthood, theologies of critical masculinities, women presiding in worship, Black and decolonial theologies adjacent to feminist convictions, confrontations with sexual violence, rest and rewilding, and a post-menopausal Mary. Contributors are: Al Barrett, Gavin D’Costa, Deborah Kahn-Harris, Michael N. Jagessar, Sharon Jagger, Rachel Mann, Jenny Morgans, Eleanor Nesbitt, Karen O’Donnell, Mark Pryce, Anthony G. Reddie, Ruth Shelton, Anne Phillips and Alison Wooley.

Sujets

• Religion
• Christianisme
• Christian Theology
• Philosophie et théologie

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• Publié par: Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd
• Date de parution: 31 janvier 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780334060987
• Langue: English

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From the Shores of Silence
Conversations in Feminist Practical Theology
Edited by
Ashley Cocksworth
Rachel Starr
and Stephen Burns






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Contents
Contributors

The River
1. Introduction: Exploring the Boundaries of Speech
Ashley Cocksworth, Rachel Starr and Stephen Burns
Part 1: Poetry
Trapeze Artiste without Bird
2. Nicola Slee as Poet-Theologian: In a Company of Voices
Gavin D’Costa, Eleanor Nesbitt, Mark Pryce and Ruth Shelton
3. The Poetry of Priesthood: Writing the Body of Mary, Christa, of You, and of Me
Rachel Mann
4. Registering: Theology and Poetic Practice
Heather Walton
Part 2: Faith and Feminism
Christa Ignored
5. The Faith Lives of Women and Girls: An Expanding Story
Anne Phillips
6. Faithing, Friendship and Feeling at Home: Three Women Encounter University Chaplaincy
Jenny Morgans
7. Reading for the Roar: Recognizing Sexual Violence in Esther 2 and Judges 21
Deborah Kahn-Harris
8. Mary the Crone
Karen O’Donnell
Part 3: The Praying Body
Christa has Bunions
9. Presiding Like a Woman: Menstruating at the Altar
Sharon Jagger
10. balm yard musings – decolonizing worship
Michael N. Jagessar
11. Praying Like a White, Straight Man: Reading Nicola Slee ‘Between the Lines’
Al Barrett
Part 4: Moving Theology
Beaford Church
12. Transformative, Christian Religious Education and Praxis Forms of Learning
Anthony G. Reddie
13. Beyond Words: ‘The Voyage Out’
Alison Woolley

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Contributors
Al Barrett is an Anglican priest and has been Rector of Hodge Hill Church since 2010. Following training at the Queen’s Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education in Birmingham, he has attempted to reflect and write from a feminist perspective as a straight cis man, including chapters in The Edge of God: New Liturgical Texts and Contexts in Conversation , eds Stephen Burns, Nicola Slee and Michael N. Jagessar (Epworth Press, 2008) and Presiding Like a Woman: Feminist Gesture for Christian Assembly , eds Nicola Slee and Stephen Burns (SPCK, 2010). He published his doctoral research as Interrupting the Church’s Flow: A Radically Receptive Political Theology in the Urban Margins (SCM Press, 2021), and has recently co-written with Ruth Harley, Being Interrupted: Re-imagining the Church’s Mission from the Outside, In (SCM Press, 2021).
Stephen Burns is Professor of Liturgical and Practical Theology at Pilgrim Theological College, University of Divinity, Melbourne, Australia. His publications include The Edge of God: New Liturgical Texts and Contexts in Conversation , ed. with Nicola Slee and Michael N. Jagessar (Epworth Press, 2008) and Presiding Like a Woman: Feminist Gesture for Christian Assembly , ed. with Nicola Slee (SPCK, 2010), ed. of Ann Loades’s Explorations in Twentieth Century Theology and Philosophy: People Preoccupied with God (Anthem Press, 2022) and Speaking of Christ, Christa and Christx , ed. with Janice McRandall (SCM Press, forthcoming).
Ashley Cocksworth is Senior Lecturer in Theology and Practice at the University of Roehampton. His publications include Karl Barth on Prayer (T&T Clark, 2015), Prayer: A Guide for the Perplexed (Bloomsbury, 2018), The T&T Clark Handbook of Christian Prayer , ed. with John C. McDowell (Bloomsbury, 2021), Karl Barth: Spiritual Writings , ed. with W. Travis McMaken, Classics of Western Spirituality Series (Paulist Press, 2022) and Glorification and the Life of Faith , with David F. Ford (Baker Academic, 2023).
Gavin D’Costa is Emeritus Professor of Catholic Theology at the University of Bristol and Visiting Professor of Interreligious Dialogue, Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas, Rome. He is author of nine books and one co-authored book, and has edited twelve books. His two most recent publications are Vatican II: Catholic Doctrines on Jews and Muslims (Oxford University Press, 2014) and Catholic Doctrines on the Jewish People after Vatican II (Oxford University Press, 2019). Gavin has also published a book of poetry (with Eleanor Nesbitt, Mark Pryce, Ruth Shelton and Nicola Slee), Making Nothing Happen: Five Poets Explore Faith and Spirituality (Ashgate, 2014). Gavin is an advisor to the Roman Catholic Bishops in England and Wales on matters relating to other religions. He has taught in Rome at the Gregorian (2001) and the Angelicum (2022), as Visiting Professor.
Michael N. Jagessar is Mission Secretary for the Caribbean and Europe with the Council for World Mission (London Office). Prior to this role Michael worked with various ecclesial communities and theological institutions. Some of his publications include Ethnicity: The Inclusive Church Resource (Darton, Longman and Todd, 2015), Christian Worship: Postcolonial Perspectives , co-authored with Stephen Burns (Equinox, 2011), The Edge of God: New Liturgical Texts and Contexts in Conversation , ed. with Stephen Burns and Nicola Slee (Epworth Press, 2008), Postcolonial Black British Theology , ed. with Anthony G. Reddie (Epworth Press, 2007) and Black Theology in Britain – A Reader , ed. with Anthony G. Reddie (Equinox, 2007).
Sharon Jagger is Lecturer in Religion at York St John University, where she teaches on intersections between gender, sexuality and religion and the sociology of religion. She gained her doctorate at the Centre for Women’s Studies (University of York), following a career in the third sector working with women vulnerable to homelessness, and as a domestic abuse practitioner. Her research interests continue to develop applications of feminist theory, particularly focusing on women in the priesthood, women’s goddess spirituality, and performance and ritual. Sharon has collaborated on several projects, including research into university chaplaincy support of trans and non-binary students and women in music production.
Deborah Kahn-Harris is the Principal of Leo Baeck College in London, where she also lectures in Hebrew Bible. Her most recent publications include ‘“If Not with Others, How?”: Creating Rabbinic Activists Through Study’, with Rabbi Robyn Ashworth-Steen, Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies 2, no. 1 (2020) and ‘Between the Song of Songs and Lamentations: Violence in the Divine-Human Relationship’, in The Bible on Violence: A Thick Description , eds Helen Paynter and Michael Spalione (Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2020). She holds a PhD in biblical studies from the University of Sheffield and has previously served as a congregational rabbi in north London and as the Teaching Fellow in Judaism at the School for Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Rachel Mann is a priest, poet, scholar and broadcaster. Author of 12 books, her latest Spectres of God (Darton, Longman and Todd, 2021) explores some of the key influences on her theological writing. She is Visiting Teaching Fellow at the Manchester Writing School and Visiting Scholar at Sarum College. She broadcasts on BBC Radio 2 and Radio 4.
Jenny Morgans is an Anglican priest and a university chaplain at King’s College London, and an Associate Tutor at St Augustine’s College of Theology and the Queen’s Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education in Birmingham. Her research interests include faith and feminism, faith at university, emerging adulthood, faith development theories and practical theology – especially involving qualitative research and chaplaincy. She is writing a book with SCM Press about the faith and gendered experiences of Christian women at university, based on her PhD research. Other publications include ‘Reflexivity, Identity, and the Role of the Researcher’, in Researching Female Faith: Qualitative Research Methods , eds Nicola Slee, Fran Porter and Anne Phillips (Routledge, 2018).
Eleanor Nesbitt is a poet and Emeritus Professor (Religions and Education), University of Warwick. She is a Quaker, born into an Anglican family and married into a Hindu one. Her ethnographic research focused on religious socialization in Sikh, Hindu, Christian and ‘mixed-faith’ families in the UK. Her poetry has appeared in publications including Making Nothing Happen: Five Poets Explore Faith and Spirituality , with Gavin D’Costa, Mark Pryce, Ruth Shelton and Nicola Slee (Ashgate, 2014). Other publications include Guru Nanak , with Gopinder Kaur (Bayeux Arts, 1999), Interfaith Pilgrims (Quaker Books, 2008), Intercultural Education: Ethnographic and Religious Approaches (Sussex Academic Press, 2010), Pool of Life: The