In Memory of Her! Exploring the Political Power of Readings—Feminist and Ecological

Over the last 30 years or more the feminist and ecological movements have contributed significantly to two major shifts in the human social imaginary. These shifts have lead to new ways of reading/interpreting classical texts, and in this instance, biblical texts. This article addresses the politica...

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Main Author: Wainwright, Elaine Mary 1948- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2015
In: Feminist theology
Year: 2015, Volume: 23, Issue: 2, Pages: 205-220
Further subjects:B Sociality
B Materiality
B Intertextuality
B Hermeneutic of love
B Power
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Summary:Over the last 30 years or more the feminist and ecological movements have contributed significantly to two major shifts in the human social imaginary. These shifts have lead to new ways of reading/interpreting classical texts, and in this instance, biblical texts. This article addresses the political function of readings which have attended to gender, power and a range of multiplicative vectors over the recent decades of feminist interpretation. The more recent shift in the social imaginary to what Lorraine Code calls ‘ecological thinking’ has called for a move beyond anthropocentrism. Such a shift requires new ways of reading. This article concludes with a reading of Mt. 26.6–13 from an ecological perspective taking account of the materiality and sociality encoded in the text.
ISSN:1745-5189
Contains:Enthalten in: Feminist theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0966735014555640