God's Word, Women's Voices: The Discernment of Spirits in the Writing of Late-Medievel Women Visionaries (original) (raw)

Continuities and departures: women's religious and spiritual leadership

Journal For the Study of Religion, 2013

This special issue of the Journal for the Study of Religion is dedicated to exploring the continuities and departures of women's theorising, theologising, and philosophising with respect to women's religious and spiritual leadership. Accordingly, the papers included in this special issue are reflective of some of the poignant critiques raised by controversial foremotherswhich continue, to various extents, to inform ongoing debates on women's religious and spiritual leadership. The most obvious enduring critique is that of patriarchy's refusal to recognise women as equal religious subjects. Simultaneously, the contributions are also reflective of the situated and localised knowledge that arises from personal and collective trajectories, multi-layered feminist standpoints, and commitments to continue to challenge methodological, theological, and theoretical perspectives, feminist or otherwise. Hence, the diverse contributions in this special issue render visible some of the similarities and convergences that continue to mould the critical field of scholarship and activism in the area of women's full participation in religious discourses, while also foregrounding the distinct, diverging, and innovative voices that invite us to imagine new possibilities of women's theorising, theologising, and philosophising. Women scholars in religious studies have produced notable and inspiring accounts of women's religious and spiritual leadership across a range of historical and new religious traditions and movements (

Continuities and Departures: Women’s Religious and Spiritual Leaderhip

Journal for the Study of Religion, 26(2): 5-11, 2013

This special issue of the Journal for the Study of Religion is dedicated to exploring the continuities and departures of women's theorising, theologising, and philosophising with respect to women's religious and spiritual leadership. Accordingly, the papers included in this special issue are reflective of some of the poignant critiques raised by controversial foremotherswhich continue, to various extents, to inform ongoing debates on women's religious and spiritual leadership. The most obvious enduring critique is that of patriarchy's refusal to recognise women as equal religious subjects.

Perspectives on Religious Life Today

American Catholic Studies, 2012

Richard Gribble, C.SC., and Prophets in Their Own Country: Women Religious Bearing Witness to the Gospel in a Troubled World, by Sandra M. Schneiders, I.H.M., offer two different perspectives on contemporary religious life. The editors of American Catholic Studies decided it would benefit readers if we invited four distinguished scholars to review both books. We were pleased that two of our reviewers are women religious; one is a priest in a religious community, and our fourth reviewer is a Christian Brother. Recent actions by church authorities in both Rome and the United States have only increased the relevance of these reviews for our readers.

From Exception to Norm? Women in Theology

Priscilla Papers, 2024

Author: Ann Loades Publisher: CBE International This essay arose from my contribution to the lecture series which commemorates the remarkable achievements of the Smith sisters, known in the course of time as Dr. Margaret Gibson and Dr. Agnes Lewis. My tactics in this essay are to offer a look, both retrospective and prospective, via a narrative with comments which may, I hope, stimulate some discussion. I am hoping that women in this day and age may continue to contribute to theology and religious studies, as they have for some considerable time both without and within an institutional base of some kind. In other words, in engaging with the past I am looking and hoping for stimulus for the present and the future. It is recognised, however, that there will be problems to face in engaging with theology and religious studies, since some of these relate to issues intrinsic to Christian tradition in much need of reform. Since this particular lecture series is the gift of the University of St Andrews, I relate my essay to connections there so far as possible.

CH 750 The Spirituality of Select Christian Women

2005

This seminar is a collaborative examination of the theological, spiritual, and autobiographical writings of select women in Christian history that illustrate important dimensions of spirituality. Those women to be studied include the three Doctors of the Roman Catholic tradition, Catherine of Siena, Teresa of Avila, and Therese of Lisieux, and a collection of early British Methodist women. Particular attention will be given to the potential mentoring role of these women in the lives of contemporary Christians.