The politics of heaven
Subtitle: women, gender, and empire in the study of Paul
By: Joseph A. Marchal.
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Minneapolis, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780800663001
Subjects: Bible. -- N.T. -- Epistles of Paul -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Sex role -- Biblical teaching; Feminist theology; Postcolonialism; Christianity and politics -- Biblical teaching
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Interpretation at the intersection of methods; title: Starting points and parameters : feminist and postcolonial analysis Paul, Philippians, and the plan of this Book; title: Histories of interpretation and "people's history" in Pauline studies; title: Initial inquiries and imperial intersections in interpretation; title: Gaps, erasures, and conflicts; title: Procedure and precedent; title: People's possibilities : subaltern history and problems of perspective; title: People's history and Pauline studies; title: Back to the biblical : antiquity and feminist, postcolonial approaches; title: A hymn within and a heavenly politeuma; title: A heavenly politeuma and a hymn within rhetorical interactions and Pauline interpretation : a postcolonial Paul; title: Does this text encourage travel to distant and inhabited lands and how does it justify itself?; title: How does this text construct difference : is there dialogue and liberating interdependence or condemnation of all that is foreign?; title: Does this text employ gender and divine representations to construct relationships of subordination and domination?; title: Initial connections and conclusions; title: The rhetorics of imitation and postcolonial theories of mimicry; title: Imitation rhetorics in Paul and in Pauline scholarship; title: The promise and perils of postcolonial mimicry; title: Post-poning any undue celebrations : criticisms, cautions, and calibrations of postcolonial mimicry; title: Resistance, risks, and replications : on the limits of mimicry for a feminist postcolonial analysis; title: Women in the contact zone; title: Contact zone and transcultural interactions; title: Pauline travels and the Philippian contact zone; title: Concluding reflections and connections.