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Womanist Theology
- Womanist theology is a theology derived from the context, voice, action, and agency of Black women of the African Diaspora. It is grounded in – but also is a critique of – the failings of Black (overtly male) and feminist (overtly white female) liberation theologies that preceded it. Womanist...
- Author
- Diana L. Hayes
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Theological movements
Gender and Buddhist Doctrine
- Women have been part of Buddhism since its inception in India, both as nuns and laity. As the tradition progressed, both within India and beyond, texts and traditions emerged that are or can be perceived as negative towards women. Within Buddhist texts, this negativity is shaped around two ...
- Author
- Alice Collett
- Faith tradition
- Buddhism
- Topics
- Being and existence
Feminist Biblical Interpretation
- This article offers a critical reflection on feminist biblical interpretation that, over the past forty plus years, has contributed greatly to changing the face of Christian biblical scholarship. After offering a definition, as well as an overview of the field of feminist biblical interpretat...
- Author
- L. Juliana Claassens
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Sacred texts, Theological methods
Christian Feminist Theological Ethics
- As Hilde Lindemann has written, ‘Feminist ethics isn’t a branch of ethics – it’s a way of doing ethics’ (7). Likewise, Christian feminist theological ethics is not a branch of Christian theology and ethics, it is a way of doing Christian theology and ethics. The most basic description of Ch...
- Author
- Cristina L. H. Traina
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Ethics
Queer Theology
- This entry establishes the contested nature of ‘queer’ as a term and provides an overview of some significant theoretical perspectives on queerness. It then outlines the emergence of queer Christian theology as it developed from both theological reflections on LGBT+ sexuality and gender var...
- Author
- Jack Slater and Susannah Cornwall
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Theological methods
Minjung Theology
- This article explores Christian liberation theology in the Korean context, namely minjungsinhak, literally meaning ‘people’s theology’, discussing its history, characteristics, recent developments, and implications. This article shows how the new theology arose as a theological tradition in...
- Author
- Andrew Eungi Kim and Jongman Kim
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Theological movements
Feminist Theologies
- The entry summarizes and analyses some of the main theological trends within Jewish feminisms. Taking a broader sense of theology as the conceptual religious underpinning that serves as a lens through which new options for interpreting the Jewish canon emerge, it focuses on five main themes: ...
- Author
- Ronit Irshai
- Faith tradition
- Judaism
- Topics
- Theological methods
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