January 18, 2007

Minneapolis – In Feminist Theologies: Legacy and Prospect, Rosemary Radford Ruether and leading theologians provide a brief and informed survey of women's studies in religion, highlighting the emergence of contextual feminist theologies.

This volume and its illustrious contributors trace the rapidly evolving feminist theological scene over the last generation and highlight specific contributions that have been and are being made on many fronts.

Thirty-fifth-anniversary celebrations of pioneering work in women's studies in religion at the Center for Women and Religion, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, recently occasioned new reflection on the history and future of feminist theologies in many cultural and ethnic contexts around the world, including Asian, Hispanic, North American feminist, and womanist.

Like the Center itself, this volume offers enlightening history, bracing analysis, and thoughtful proposals for the Christian, the contributions also assayed feminist initiatives from Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism. Along with the editor Rosemary Radford Ruether, contributors include: Rita Nakashima Brock, Sandy Boucher, Peggy H. Cleveland, Pamela Cooper-White, Marcia Falk, Mary E. Hunt, Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan, Stephanie Y. Mitchem, Nancy Pineda-Madrid, Nayereh Tohidi, and Mary Evelyn Tucker.

Contents
Introduction-Rosemary Radford Ruether
1. At the Center: Rosemary Radford Ruether, Peggy H. Cleveland, Pamela Cooper-White, Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan
2. Pacific, Asian and North American-Asian Women's Theologies: Rita Nakashima Brock
3. Latinas Writing Theology at the Threshold of the 21st Century: Nancy Pineda-Madrid
4. Womanist Theology and Ethics: Stephanie Y. Mitchem
5. The Flowering of Feminist-Womanist Theologies: Mary E. Hunt
6. Muslim Feminism and Islamic Reformation: Nayereh Tohidi
7. Buddhist Feminist Scholarship: Sandy Boucher
8. Women, Religion, and the Ecological Crisis: Mary Evelyn Tucker
9. Prayer as Poetry, Poetry as Prayer: Marcia Falk

Rosemary Radford Ruether is one of the most important theologians of the last forty years. Currently she serves as Carpenter Professor of Feminist Theology, Berkeley, and as Visiting Scholar at the Claremont Graduate University and School of Theology. Author or editor of 42 books, she wrote most recently Integrating Ecofeminisim, Globalization, and World Religions (2005) and Goddess and the Divine Feminine: A Western Religious History (2005). Among her Fortress Press titles are Women and Redemption (1998) and Visionary Women (2002).

Feminist Theologies: Legacy and Prospect, Edited by Rosemary Radford Ruether, Item Number: 978-0-8006-3894-8, Price: $20.00 / CAN $24.00 / UK £11.99, Specs: 5.5" x 8.5," paperback, 176 pages.

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