Feminist Trauma Theologies

Feminist Trauma Theologies
Author: Karen O'Donnell
Publisher: SCM Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2020-03-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0334058724

Throughout the study of trauma theology runs a lineage that is deeply feminist. As traumatic experience is being more frequently acknowledged in public, this book seeks to articulate an explicit understanding of feminist trauma theology for the first time. Bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines, this book explores the relationship between trauma and feminist theologies, highlighting methodological, theological, and practical similarities between the two. The #MeToo and #ChurchToo movements, sexual abuse scandals, gender based violence, pregnancy loss, and the oppression of women in Church spaces are all featured as important topics. With contributions from a diverse team of scholars, this book is an essential resource for all thinkers and practitioners who are trying to navigate the current conversations around theology, suffering, and feminism. With a foreword by Shelly Rambo, author of Resurrecting Wounds

Feminist Trauma Theologies

Feminist Trauma Theologies
Author: Karen O'Donnell
Publisher: SCM Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2020-02-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0334058732

With contributions from a diverse team of scholars, Feminist Trauma Theologies is an essential resource for all thinkers and practitioners who are trying to navigate the current conversations around theology, suffering, and feminism.

The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theology

The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theology
Author: Mary McClintock Fulkerson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 595
Release: 2012
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 019927388X

This volume highlights the relevance of globalization and the insights of gender studies and religious studies for feminist theology. It focuses on the changing global contexts for the field and its movement towards new models of theology, distinct from the forms of traditional Christian systematic theology and of secular feminism.

Spirit and Trauma

Spirit and Trauma
Author: Shelly Rambo
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0664235034

Rambo draws on contemporary studies in trauma to rethink a central claim of the Christian faith: that new life arises from death. Reexamining the narrative of the death and resurrection of Jesus from the middle day-liturgically named as Holy Saturday-she seeks a theology that addresses the experience of living in the aftermath of trauma. Through a reinterpretation of "remaining" in the Johannine Gospel, she proposes a new theology of the Spirit that challenges traditional conceptions of redemption. Offered, in its place, is a vision of the Spirit's witness from within the depths of human suffering to the persistence of divine love.

Crossing the Divide

Crossing the Divide
Author: Deanna A. Thompson
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 204
Release:
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781451406290

Over the last two decades, traditional formulations of the idea of atonement have come under heavy attack from feminist theologians and others. They argue that the traditional view valorizes suffering and encourages people to acquiesce in needless self-sacrificing, that it is unseemly to think of God as demanding suffering of his son, and that the theology of the cross needs to be rethought in light of the whole life, ministry, and resurrection of Jesus. Equally committed to the insights of the theology of the cross and feminist theology, Deanna Thompson takes up these contentious issues here in a creative and nuanced way. Her work emerges from direct engagement with Martin Luther and the Heidelberg Disputation as well as with the architects of reformist feminism. She finds surprising common ground on issues of suffering, abuse, atonement, reform, ethics, and the import of Jesus, and her book culminates in a constructive and promising feminist theology of the cross.

Trauma-Sensitive Theology

Trauma-Sensitive Theology
Author: Jennifer Baldwin
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2018-09-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 149829684X

The intention of Trauma Sensitive Theology is to help theologians, professors, clergy, spiritual care givers, and therapists speak well of God and faith without further wounding survivors of trauma. It explores the nature of traumatic exposure, response, processing, and recovery and its impact on constructive theology and pastoral leadership and care. Through the lenses of contemporary traumatology, somatics, and the Internal Family Systems model of psychotherapy, the text offers a framework for seeing trauma and its impact in the lives of individuals, communities, society, and within our own sacred texts. It argues that care of traumatic wounding must include all dimensions of the human person, including our spiritual practices, religious rituals and community participation, and theological thinking. As such, clergy and spiritual care professionals have an important role to play in the recovery of traumatic wounding and fostering of resiliency. This book explores how trauma-informed congregational leaders can facilitate resiliency and offers one way of thinking theologically in response to traumatizing abuses of relational power and our resources for restoration.

Broken Bodies

Broken Bodies
Author: Karen O'Donnell
Publisher: SCM Press
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2019-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0334056241

The Body of Christ is a traumatised body because it is constituted of traumatised bodies. This monograph explores the nature of that trauma and examines the implications of identifying the trauma of this body. Constructing new ways of thinking about the narratives at the heart of the Christian faith, 'Broken Bodies' offers a fresh perspective on Christian theology, in particular the Eucharist, and presents a call to love the body in all its guises. It offers new pathways for considering what it means to ‘be Christian’ and explores the impact that the experience of trauma has on Christian doctrine.

Female Child Soldiering, Gender Violence, and Feminist Theologies

Female Child Soldiering, Gender Violence, and Feminist Theologies
Author: Susan Willhauck
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2019-09-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3030219828

This book examines the phenomenon of female child soldiering from various theological perspectives. It is an interdisciplinary work that brings Christian feminist theologies into dialogue to analyze the complex ethical, geopolitical, social, and theological issues involved in the militarization of girls and women and gender-based violence. With contributions from a range of interdisciplinary and multicultural authors, this book offers reflections and perspectives that coalesce as a comprehensive overview of feminist theological insights into child soldiering.

God and the Victim

God and the Victim
Author: Jennifer Erin Beste
Publisher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2007-09-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0195311094

How does severe interpersonal harm affect our freedom and the ways in which we relate to ourselves, others, and God? This book addresses the challenges that trauma and feminist theory pose to cherished theological convictions about human freedom and divine grace.