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Claiming Space in the Bible and Beyond
Exploring the Intersection of Gender, Sexuality, and Economic Realities
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Claiming Space in the Bible and Beyond
Exploring the Intersection of Gender, Sexuality, and Economic Realities
About this book
This collection of essays explores the way individuals and communities navigate complicated spaces which have been dominated by econo-heteropatriarchal powers to find their voice and claim their space.
Using concepts of space from development studies, the volume explores the power of biblical narratives for communities to navigate the complex and multifaceted intersections between gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and economics in the biblical text as well as within the diverse interpretive communities the chapter authors represent. In particular, these contributions are interested in the role of art as a way for individuals and communities to exhibit their agency and so transform hostile spaces in which they inadvertently find themselves.
The work is divided into three sections: Claiming Space in the Community, Claiming Space in the Text, Claiming Space in/through Art. The contemporary contexts engaged with include South Africa, India, Brazil, Aotearoa New Zealand, the margins of the United States of America, and Australia. Within these contexts a diverse range of communities struggle "to claim space," including unemployed young people, LGBTIQA+ communities, women migrant workers, survivors of sexual violence, women struggling to survive economically, ethnic others, women at home and at work, women lamenting and resisting imperialisms, colonial settlers, aboriginal people, LGBTQIA+ Christians, black women and children.
Using concepts of space from development studies, the volume explores the power of biblical narratives for communities to navigate the complex and multifaceted intersections between gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and economics in the biblical text as well as within the diverse interpretive communities the chapter authors represent. In particular, these contributions are interested in the role of art as a way for individuals and communities to exhibit their agency and so transform hostile spaces in which they inadvertently find themselves.
The work is divided into three sections: Claiming Space in the Community, Claiming Space in the Text, Claiming Space in/through Art. The contemporary contexts engaged with include South Africa, India, Brazil, Aotearoa New Zealand, the margins of the United States of America, and Australia. Within these contexts a diverse range of communities struggle "to claim space," including unemployed young people, LGBTIQA+ communities, women migrant workers, survivors of sexual violence, women struggling to survive economically, ethnic others, women at home and at work, women lamenting and resisting imperialisms, colonial settlers, aboriginal people, LGBTQIA+ Christians, black women and children.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: On Claiming Space
- Part I: Claiming Space in the Community
- Chapter 1: CBS as Invigorated Space: Discerning Potential Participatory Development Space with Ruth (1:22â2:23)
- Chapter 2: Decolonizing Feminist Knowledge Production Processes: Reading Ruth with Vulnerable, Trafficked, and Migrant Working Women
- Chapter 3: Queer Samba: Exploring the Limits and Possibilities of Indecency in Our Lady Aparecidaâs Devotion in Brazil
- Part II: Claiming Space in the Text
- Chapter 4: A Closed Space : The Ten Women Shut Up by David
- Chapter 5: Claiming Economic Space: The âCourageous Womanâ of Proverbs 31:10-31 within the Context of Her Ancient Household
- Chapter 6: âWho Let the Dogs Out?â: Claiming Space with and through Matthewâs Canaanite Canine-Women
- Chapter 7: Paulâs Conceived Space and Womenâs Lived Space: Teasing Out Gender and Agency in 1 Corinthians
- Part III: Claiming Space in/through Art
- Chapter 8: The Narrative Is Crumbling: (Female) Agency in Prophet Song (Paul Lynch) and Nahum 2
- Chapter 9: National Re/Production: Women and Contested Spaces in Judges and Beloved
- Chapter 10: Colonial Violence in the Contested Space of Ecclesiastical Stained Glass
- Chapter 11: Ons Kom tot Verhaal: Reflections on the Development of a Queer Narrative Archive as a Queer Invented Space
- Index
- About the Contributors