TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fletcher,Jeannine Hill
TI  - Motherhood as Metaphor: Engendering Interreligious Dialogue 
T2  - Bordering Religions: Concepts, Conflicts, and Conversations
SN  - 9780823251179
AV  - BL458 .F59 2013eb
U1  - 200.82 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Fordham University Press, 
KW  - Theological anthropology
KW  - Women and religion
KW  - Women
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Gender & Sexuality
KW  - Religion
KW  - Theology
KW  - RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Feminism
KW  - Interfaith
KW  - Interreligious Dialogue
KW  - Missions
KW  - Motherhood
KW  - Religions
KW  - Religious Diversity
KW  - Theological Anthropology
KW  - Women's Movement
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; PREFACE --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; Introduction: We Feed Them Milk --; Part I. In Mission and Motherhood --; 1. Encounter in the Mission Fields --; 2. We Meet in Multiplicity --; Part II. In the Sacred Secular --; 3. Encounter in Global Feminist Movements --; 4. Creativity Under Constraint --; Part III. In Lives Intertwined --; 5. Encounter in Philadelphia --; 6. The Dynamic Self as Knower --; Conclusion: Seeking Salvation --; NOTES --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX; restricted access
N2  - Who is my neighbor? As our world has increasingly become a single place, this question posed in the gospel story is heard as an interreligious inquiry. Yet studies of encounter across religious lines have largely been framed as the meeting of male leaders. What difference does it make when women’s voices and experiences are the primary data for thinking about interfaith engagement?Motherhood as Metaphor draws on three historical encounters between women of different faiths: first, the archives of the Maryknoll Sisters working in China before World War II; second, the experiences of women in the feminist movement around the globe; and third, a contemporary interfaith dialogue group in Philadelphia. These sites provide fresh ways of thinking about our being human in the relational, dynamic messiness of our sacred, human lives.Each part features a chapter detailing the historical, archival, and ethnographic evidence of women’s experience in interfaith contact through letters, diaries, speeches, and interviews of women in interfaith settings. A subsequent chapter considers the theological import of these experiences, placing them in conversation with modern theological anthropology, feminist theory, and theology. Women’s experience of motherhood provides a guiding thread through the theological reflections recorded here. This investigation thus offers not only a comparative theology based on believers’ experience rather than on texts alone but also new ways of conceptualizing our being human. The result is an interreligious theology, rooted in the Christian story but also learning across religious lines
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823252206?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823252206
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823252206/original
ER  -