From Women’s Experience to Feminist Theology

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What are the implications of adopting a primacy of praxis position in feminist theology? How can we respect the diversity of women’s experience while retaining it as a useful analytic category? Do these twin resources of women’s experience and praxis together imply that feminist theology is ultimately relativist? Through an analysis of the work of some of today’s key feminist theologians – Christian, womanist and post-Christian – Linda Hogan considers these and other methodological questions. Cover Half-title Title Copyright Contents Foreword Abbreviations Introduction Part I: Origins of the Primary Categories of Feminist Theology Chapter 1: Women's Experience from De Beauvoir to McCarthy Brown Woman as Other The Other Revised The Feminine Mystique The Second Stage Black Women's Experience The Black Female Slave Experience Reconstruction Experience of Motherhood Menstruation Reclamation of Nature Pacifism Lesbian Existence Conclusion Chapter 2: Praxis: The Theological Background Origins of Praxis-Based Theologies Praxis in Political Theology Praxis as the Point of Departure A Reckless Dream? Praxis and Liberation Theology Critical Reflection on Praxis Juan Luis Segundo Jose Miguez Bonino Critical Correlation Conclusion Part II: Primary Categories Employed Chapter 3: Christian Feminists and the Categories of Women's Experience and Praxis Introduction Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza Rosemary Radford Ruether Conclusion Chapter 4: Womanist Theologians' Employment of the Primary Categories Womanist Theology Methodology of Womanist Theology Black Women's Literature The Life and Work of Zora Neale Hurston The Color Purple Conclusion Chapter 5: Women's Experience and Praxis in the Thealogies of Post-Christian Feminists Women's Experience and Literature Praxis-Based Theology Christine Downing's Thealogy Conclusion Conclusion: A Theology for the Future Bibliography Index of Names Index of Subjects