The Personal is Political: The Politics of Liberation in Mennonite-Feminist Theologies
Maxwell Kennel recently wondered why the majority of Mennonite-feminist theologians do not identify as political theologians. The article responds to this question in two parts using the feminist slogan, “the personal is political” to broaden the definition of the political in traditional Mennonite...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2021
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| In: |
Political theology
Year: 2021, Volume: 22, Issue: 3, Pages: 192-210 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Mennonites
/ Liberation theology
/ Feminist theology
/ Political theology
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| IxTheo Classification: | FD Contextual theology KDG Free church |
| Further subjects: | B
Peace
B Mennonite-feminist B gendered power dynamics B Political Theology B Feminist Theology B Liberation B Mennonite theology |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | Maxwell Kennel recently wondered why the majority of Mennonite-feminist theologians do not identify as political theologians. The article responds to this question in two parts using the feminist slogan, “the personal is political” to broaden the definition of the political in traditional Mennonite political theologies. First, this article distinguishes traditional Mennonite political theologies from liberation theologies, including feminist theologies, which presume that all theology is political. Liberation theologies begin with socio-political experience and an analysis of power dynamics from marginalized perspectives, which today include intersectional and hybridized identities, such as Mennonite-feminist. Secondly, this article explores the feminist-liberationist theological method in Malinda Berry’s reclamation of Mennonite cookbook author Doris Janzen Longacre as a “more-with-less” theologian. This article follows and extends Longacre’s Mennonite-feminist approach to nonconformity, peacemaking, and theological method of highlighting the political and theo-ethical implications of personal decisions around food, homemaking, and economic and ecological justice. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1719 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2021.1905334 |
