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RECONCILIATION: FEMINIST SHADINGS
Author(s) -
Melanchthon Monica Jyotsna
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
international review of mission
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.118
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 1758-6631
pISSN - 0020-8582
DOI - 10.1111/j.1758-6631.2005.tb00490.x
Subject(s) - oppression , praxis , sociology , forgiveness , context (archaeology) , resistance (ecology) , premise , repentance , silence , perspective (graphical) , relation (database) , judgement , epistemology , environmental ethics , gender studies , aesthetics , law , social psychology , psychology , political science , theology , philosophy , politics , history , ecology , archaeology , database , biology , computer science , artificial intelligence
This paper is an attempt to identify certain feminst shadings on reconciliation. It it based on the premise that women make better reconciles in the light of their own experience of suffering and commitment to relationality or community. It does not purport to propose a programme of reconciliation nor does it purport to address how reconciliation can be effected in a particular context. Rather, it raises certain issues in relation to the process and praxis of reconciliation from the perspective of women. It examines insights gamed from study of women in their role as reconcilers, and the manner in which women have coped with conflict in their lives as portrayed in select biblical passages. The paper also considers whether and how these elements, viz., rootedness in faith, affirmation of the God of life, the recognition of oppressive systems, resistance to oppression, forgiveness, repentance, insight, good judgement and ritual, could be possible resources for the development of a perspective for reconciliation with the self and the community. It is hoped that it will generate further reflection in our attempt to isolate a strategy or strategies for reconciliation between individual) and communities, in the church and society.