Searching for the Future in the Past: Reclaiming Feminist Theological Visions

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This book is based on one key argument: inclusive and progressive theological and religious perspectives, nurtured from the heritage and voices of feminist theological traditions, have an important and distinctive contribution to make to an analysis of the critical issues facing women-identified persons in the 21st century. Reclaiming Feminist Theological Visions: Searching for the Future in the Past recovers the missing theological voices, grounded in those religious communities and traditions, which gender and sexuality studies often overlook. Feminist theologies have from their beginnings aspired to be the communal production of women-identified persons who critically reflect on their experiences in the contexts of culture, social standpoint, religious practices and beliefs, and imagination of the Feminine Divine. Pae and Talvacchia draw from this heritage to engage the critical issues of today to create new perspectives. They create an intellectual and discursive space where feminist theologians in all of their diversity renew and reclaim the rich legacies of the feminist theological tradition through inter-generational, racially diverse, and transnational conversation.

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Keun-joo Christine Pae is Associate Professor of Religion/Ethics and Women's and Gender Studies at Dennison University, USA. Kathleen T. Talvacchia is an Independent Scholar based in New York, USA.