Product Description: Changing Horizons is the second of two volumes highlighting the ways in which Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza's work constructs a critical feminist theory and praxis of liberation, in relation to the biblical text and its legacy, and in relation to the theological and ecclesial setting of today...read more

Product Description: Drawing from a career of pioneering scholarship, Schussler Fiorenza situates the critical feminist theory that has characterized her work in the praxis of liberation. These pathbreaking essays challenge academic and ecclesiastical theologians to embrace critical theory and the analysis of overlapping oppressions in their work...read more

Product Description: This unique collection of essays, originating in seminars held at SBL s Annual and International Meetings, explores the current ethos and discipline of graduate biblical education from different social locations and academic contexts...read more

What is the purpose of reading the Bible? Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza tackles the tough question of the Bible's role in the world today and how its vision can further a more just world. She shows particularly the radical power of the Word to challenge imperial ways, the humiliation of persons, and the use of religion itself to keep people down, today as then. Finally, she offers an understanding of the implications of such a program for the field and practice of biblical studies, an indispensable partner in challenging the status quo.

Product Description: I -- Women's rights as human rights in a global context, The -- rights of women and human rights: achievements and contradictions : Evelyn A. Kirkley -- Women's rights as human rights in a global context, globalization and the violation of wo/men's rights : Ann-Cathrin Jarl -- Between women: migrant domestic work and gender inequalities in the new global economy : Rhacel Salazar Parren?as -- Feminist struggles for women's rights: towards a new global agenda : Virginia Vargas -- Catholicism and women's rights as human rights : Maria?-Jose? Rosado-Nunes -- Feminist problematization of rights language and universal conceptualizations of human rights : Isabelle Barker : Jasbir Kaur Puar -- II -- Religious and theological structures: violating or supporting women's rights -- Women's rights to full citizenship and decision-making in the church : Margarita Pintos de Cea-Naharro -- A -- women's right to not being straight (El derecho a no ser derecha): on theology, church and pornography : Marcella Maria Althaus-Reid -- In God's image: theology in the articulation of women's rights : Lieve Troch -- Inter-religious and inter-cultural work for women's rights : Margaret Shanthi-Stephen...read more

Product Description: The world is increasingly assuming the characteristics of a "global village," as the development of transportation and information technologies makes travel and communications around the globe ever easier and quicker. The world of biblical scholarship has not been immune to such changes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this major study, leading feminist biblical critic Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza focuses on Paul and his interpreters. She questions the apolitical ethos of biblical scholarship and argues for an alternative rooted in a critical understanding of language as a form of power...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza-who "stands among the most articulate and respected theologians who have challenged the silence and marginality . . . of Christian women" (The New York Times Book Review)-explores postmodernist biblical studies through feminist interpretation in Sharing Her Word...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An international journal of theology; a catholic journal in the widest sense: rooted in Roman Catholicism yet open to other Christian traditions and the world's faiths. Promotes discussion in the spirit of Vatican II. Annual subscriptions available.

Product Description: Now in paperback, Volume 2 of this collection of writing by women is "a major scholarly work" ("Daughters of Sarah"). "In Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, feminist biblical scholars now have a dynamic and erudite leader. Highly recommended".--"Library Journal".

Product Description: An international journal of theology; a catholic journal in the widest sense: rooted in Roman Catholicism yet open to other Christian traditions and the worlds faiths. Promotes discussion in the spirit of Vatican II. Annual subscriptions available.