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Making Sense of Feminist Theology Today
Author(s) -
Schneider Laurel C.,
Trentaz Cassie J. E.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
religion compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.113
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 1749-8171
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-8171.2008.00096.x
Subject(s) - scholarship , gender studies , nationality , human sexuality , sociology , intersectionality , race (biology) , feminism , social justice , feminist theory , queer , feminist philosophy , feminist theology , social science , political science , immigration , law
Feminist theology today denotes a widening field of scholarship that shares historic, pragmatic concerns about gender justice in diverse cultural and racial contexts, but that increasingly differs in approach. In this essay, we discuss internal, creative challenges surfacing in (largely Christian) feminist theologies and review the historical social movements that have shaped them up to the present. Theologians who use race, queer, and postcolonial theory to assert the co‐constituting dynamics of gender with race, class, sexuality, nationality, and religion are muddying the waters of older feminisms that focused exclusively on gender, rendering the future of feminist theologies more ambiguous, broad‐reaching, and fluid.