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Divine Words, Female Voices: Muslima Explorations in Comparative Feminist Theology
Divine Words, Female Voices: Muslima Explorations in Comparative Feminist Theology
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The relationship between Islam and feminism is complex. There are many Muslim scholars who fervently promote women's equality. At the same time, there is ambivalence regarding the general norms, terminology, and approaches of feminism and feminist theology. This ambivalence is in large part a
product of various hegemonic, androcentric, and patriarchal discourses that seek to dictate legitimate and authoritative interpretations. These discourses not only fuel ambivalence, they also effectively obscure valuable possibilities related to interreligious feminist engagement. Divine Words, Female Voices is the follow-up to Jerusha Lamptey's 2014 book, Never Wholly Other, in which she introduced the idea of Muslima theology and applied it to the topic of religious diversity. In this new book, she extends her earlier arguments to contend that interreligious feminist
engagement is both a theologically valid endeavor and a vital resource for Muslim women scholars. She introduces comparative feminist theology as a method for overcoming challenges associated with interreligious feminist engagement, reorients comparative discussions to focus on the two Divine
Words (the Qur'an and Jesus) and feminist theology, and uses this reorientation to examine intersections, discontinuities, and insights related to diverse theological topics. This book is distinctive in its responsiveness to calls for new approaches in Islamic feminist theology, its use of the
method of comparative theology, its focus on Muslim and Christian feminist theology in comparative analysis, and its constructive articulation of Muslima theological perspectives.
Author: Jerusha Tanner Lamptey
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 10/15/2018
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780190653378
product of various hegemonic, androcentric, and patriarchal discourses that seek to dictate legitimate and authoritative interpretations. These discourses not only fuel ambivalence, they also effectively obscure valuable possibilities related to interreligious feminist engagement. Divine Words, Female Voices is the follow-up to Jerusha Lamptey's 2014 book, Never Wholly Other, in which she introduced the idea of Muslima theology and applied it to the topic of religious diversity. In this new book, she extends her earlier arguments to contend that interreligious feminist
engagement is both a theologically valid endeavor and a vital resource for Muslim women scholars. She introduces comparative feminist theology as a method for overcoming challenges associated with interreligious feminist engagement, reorients comparative discussions to focus on the two Divine
Words (the Qur'an and Jesus) and feminist theology, and uses this reorientation to examine intersections, discontinuities, and insights related to diverse theological topics. This book is distinctive in its responsiveness to calls for new approaches in Islamic feminist theology, its use of the
method of comparative theology, its focus on Muslim and Christian feminist theology in comparative analysis, and its constructive articulation of Muslima theological perspectives.
Author: Jerusha Tanner Lamptey
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 10/15/2018
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780190653378
About the Author
Jerusha Tanner Lamptey (Jerusha Tanner Rhodes) is Associate Professor of Islam and Interreligious Engagement and the Director of the Islam, Social Justice, and Interreligious Engagement Program (ISJIE) at Union Theological Seminary in New York. She is the author of Never Wholly Other: A Muslima
Theology of Religious Pluralism (Oxford University Press, 2014).
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