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020			_a9780823251193
020			_z9780823251179 (hardback)
020			_z9780823251186 (paper)
040			_aMdBmJHUP _cMdBmJHUP
050	0	0	_aBL458 _b.F59 2013
082	0	0	_a200.82 _223
100	1		_aHill Fletcher, Jeannine.
245	1	0	_aMotherhood as metaphor _h[electronic resource] : _bengendering interreligious dialogue / _cJeannine Hill Fletcher.
250			_aFirst edition
260			_aNew York : _bFordham University Press, _c2013. _e(Baltimore, Md. : _fProject MUSE, _g2015)
300			_a1 online resource (pages cm.)
490	0		_aBordering religions
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	8		_aMachine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: We Feed Them Milk: Theological Anthropology as a Labor of Love -- Part I: In Mission and Motherhood -- Chapter 1: Encounter in the Mission Fields: Engendering Dialogue Among Women in China -- Chapter 2: We Meet in Multiplicity: Insights for Theological Anthropology -- Part II: In the Sacred Secular -- Chapter 3: Encounter in Global Feminist Movements: Enacting Trans-religious Alliances -- Chapter 4: Creativity Under Constraint: Freedom in Theological Anthropology -- Pater III: In Lives Intertwined -- Chapter 5: Encounter in Philadelphia: Engendered Dialogue Today -- Chapter 6: The Dynamic Self as Knower: Insights for Theological Anthropology -- Conclusion: Seeking Salvation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		7	_aRELIGION / Theology. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aRELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies. _2bisacsh
650		0	_aTheological anthropology.
650		0	_aWomen _xReligious aspects.
650		0	_aWomen and religion.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780823251193/
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c31664 _d31664