The politics of heaven: women, gender, and empire in the study of Paul
Introduction: Interpretation at the intersection of methods -- Starting points and parameters : feminist and postcolonial analysis Paul, Philippians, and the plan of this Book -- Histories of interpretation and "people's history" in Pauline studies -- Initial inquiries and imperial in...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis, Minn.
Fortress Press
2008
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| In: | Year: 2008 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: MARCHAL, JOSEPH A., The Politics of Heaven: Women, Gender, and Empire in the Study of Paul (Paul in Critical Contexts)] (2011) (Kahl, Brigitte, 1950 -)
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| Series/Journal: | Paul in critical contexts
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Pauline letters
/ Exegesis
/ Contextual theology
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| Further subjects: | B
Sex role
Biblical teaching
B Postcolonialism B Christianity and politics Biblical teaching B Bible. Epistles of Paul Criticism, interpretation, etc B Feminist Theology B Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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| Summary: | Introduction: Interpretation at the intersection of methods -- Starting points and parameters : feminist and postcolonial analysis Paul, Philippians, and the plan of this Book -- Histories of interpretation and "people's history" in Pauline studies -- Initial inquiries and imperial intersections in interpretation -- Gaps, erasures, and conflicts -- Procedure and precedent -- People's possibilities : subaltern history and problems of perspective -- People's history and Pauline studies -- Back to the biblical : antiquity and feminist, postcolonial approaches -- A hymn within and a heavenly politeuma -- -- A heavenly politeuma and a hymn within rhetorical interactions and Pauline interpretation : a postcolonial Paul -- Does this text encourage travel to distant and inhabited lands and how does it justify itself? -- How does this text construct difference : is there dialogue and liberating interdependence or condemnation of all that is foreign? -- Does this text employ gender and divine representations to construct relationships of subordination and domination? -- Initial connections and conclusions -- The rhetorics of imitation and postcolonial theories of mimicry -- Imitation rhetorics in Paul and in Pauline scholarship -- The promise and perils of postcolonial mimicry -- Post-poning any undue celebrations : criticisms, cautions, and calibrations of postcolonial mimicry -- Resistance, risks, and replications : on the limits of mimicry for a feminist postcolonial analysis -- Women in the contact zone -- Contact zone and transcultural interactions -- Pauline travels and the Philippian contact zone -- Concluding reflections and connections |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverz. S. 181 - 204 |
| ISBN: | 0800663004 |