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Conroversies In Body Theology

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by Marcella Althaus-Reid, Lisa Isherwood

    • Authors

      Marcella Althaus-Reid +1

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      Canterbury Press

    • Published

      February 2008

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    Body theology has for a number of years now has challenged the ways in which traditional theology views the body and in doing so has moved the study of the incarnation forward. The authors of this book argue that the mutilated and self-mutilated bodies of women have served as a hermeneutical clue to the ways in which female bodies are the sites of societal, ecclesiastical and psychological warfare.

    As part of the series on controversies in contextual theology, Marcella Althaus-Reid and Lisa Isherwood edit this collection of writings from leading scholars, examining some of the most extreme approaches to the body that our society engages with. This book engages with difficult and challenging issues surrounding the body and society, as an embodied resource for the ever-expanding task of considering the nature of incarnation through the lens of body theology.

    Includes contributions from Beverly Clack, Inga Bryden, Elizabeth Baxter, Martin Hugo Cordova Quero, Victoria Rollins, Janet Wootton and Paul Reid-Bowen.

    Contents:

    Series Introduction
    List of Contributors

    Introduction: Slicing Women’s Bodies: Christianity and the Cut, Mutilation and Cosmetically Altered Believers
    1.Slicing Mothers: Violence and the Maternal in the Marquis de Sade
    Beverly Clark

    2.‘Cut’n’Slash’: Remodelling the ‘Freakish’ Female Form
    Inga Bryden

    3.Cutting Edge: Witnessing Rites of Passage in a Therapeutic Community
    Elizabeth Baxter

    4.Mutilations and Restorations: Cosmetic Surgery in Christianity
    Marcella Althaus-Reid

    5.This Body Trans/Forming Me: Indecencies in Transgendered/Intersex Bodies,
    Body Fascism and the Doctrine of the Incarnation
    Martín Hugo Córdova Quero

    6.Uses and Abuses of Power in the Shoah and the Silent Genocide of Abused Women
    Victoria Rollins

    7.Biblically Slicing Women
    Janet Wootton

    8.Will you Slim for Him or Bake Cakes for the Queen of Heaven
    Lisa Isherwood

    9.Why Women Need to be Ripped, Shredded and Sliced: Political, Philosophical And Thealogical Reflections
    Paul Reid-Bowen

    Bibliography
    Index of Names and Subjects
    Index of Biblical References

    Authors:

    Marcella Althaus-Reid is a Professor of Contextual Theology at the University of Edinburgh

    Lisa Isherwood is Professor of Feminist Liberation Theologies at the University of Winchester.

    Specification

    • Authors

      Marcella Althaus-Reid +1

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      Canterbury Press

    • Published

      February 2008

    • Weight

      19g

    • Page Count

      258

    • Dimensions

      216 x 277 x 140 mm

    • ISBN

      9780334041573

    • ISBN-10

      0334041570

    • Eden Code

      1120163

    More Information

    • ISBN: 9780334041573

    • Publisher: Canterbury Press

    • Release Date: February 2008

    • Weight: 19g

    • Dimensions: 216 x 277 x 140 mm

    • Eden Code: 1120163


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