Controversies in body theology
By: edited by Marcella Maria Althaus-Reid and Lisa Isherwood
Series: Controversies in contextual theology series; Controversies in contextual theology series
Publisher: SCM Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780334041573
Subjects: Gewalt; Sexualität; Theologie der Befreiung; Religious aspects; Christianity; Selbstbeschädigung; Frau; Self-mutilation; Sex; Women in Christianity; Körper; Human body
Description: "Body theology has for some time challenged the way in which traditional theology views bodies, and in this way it has moved the incarnational discourse forward. However, it has rarely taken a long look at some of the harsher realities of the body and the ways in which bodies manifest and react in a world that places huge pressure on humans. The authors in this book argue that the battered and bruised, mutilated and self-mutilating bodies of women act as a violent hermeneutical clue to the way in which female bodies simply are sites of societal, ecclesiastical and psychological warfare. As liberation theologians, the editors and contributors do not accept the arguments for the responsibility of victims or the naturalizing rhetoric of violence against bodies. Instead, they prefer to ask questions about structures of violence, the construction of women's bodies and the implications that the conjunction of the two have in the lived realities of women's lives."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-236) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Slicing women's bodies: Christianity and the cut, mutilated and cosmetically altered believers; title: Slicing mothers: violence and the maternal in the Marquis de Sade / Beverley Clack; title: 'Cut 'n' slash': remodelling the 'freakish' female form / Inga Bryden; title: Cutting edge: witnessing rites of passage in a therapeutic community / Elizabeth Baxter; title: Mutilations and restorations: cosmetic surgery in Christianity / Marcella Alhaus-Reid; title: This body trans/forming me: indecencies in transgender/intersex bodies, body fascism and the doctrine of the Incarnation / Martín Hugo Córdova Quero; title: Uses and abuses of power in the Shoah and the silent genocide of abused women / Victoria Rollins; title: Biblically slicing women / Janet Wootton; title: Will you slim for him or bake cakes for the queen of heaven? / Lisa Isherwood; title: Why women need to be ripped, shredded and sliced: political, philosophical and thealogical reflections / Paul Reid-Bowen.