Minoritized Women Reading Race and Ethnicity

Intersectional Approaches to Constructed Identity and Early Christian Texts

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

Av Mitzi J. Smith, Jin Young Choi, Mitzi J Smith

1 839 kr

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Nonwhite women primarily appear as marginalized voices, if at all, in volumes that address constructions of race/ethnicity and early Christian texts. Employing an intersectional approach, the contributors analyze historical, cultural, literary, and ideological constructions of racial/ethnic identities, which intersect with gender/sexuality class, religion, slavery, and/or power. Given their small numbers in academic biblical studies, this book represents a critical mass of nonwhite women scholars and offers a critique of dominant knowledge production. Filling a significant epistemological gap, this seminal text provides provocative, innovative, and critical insights into constructions of race/ethnicity in ancient and modern texts and contexts.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-09-24
Mått160 x 231 x 19 mm
Vikt431 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieFeminist Studies and Sacred Texts
Antal sidor164
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498591584

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Mitzi J. Smith is the J. Davison Philips Professor of New Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary. and author of Toward Decentering the New Testament: A Reintroduction.Jin Young Choi is professor of New Testament and Christian Origins and the Baptist Missionary Training School Professorial Chair for Biblical Studiesat Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School and author of Postcolonial Discipleship of Embodiment: An Asian and Asian American Feminist Reading of the Gospel of Mark.

Chapter OneIntroduction by Mitzi J. Smith and Jin Young ChoiChapter TwoWeren’t You with Jesus the Galilean?: An Intersectional Reading of Ethnicity, Diasporic Trauma, and Mourning in the Gospel of Matthew by Jin Young ChoiChapter ThreeIn Christ, but Not of Christ: Reading Identity Differences Differently in the Letter to the Galatians by Jennifer T. KaalundChapter FourHagar’s Children Still Ain’t Free: Paul’s Counterterror Rhetoric, Constructed Identity, Enslavement, and Galatians 3:28 by Mitzi J. SmithChapter FiveFeminized-Minoritized Paul? A Womanist Reading of Paul’s Body in the Corinthian Context by Angela ParkerChapter SixGender, Race, and the Normalization of Prophecy in Early Christianity and Korean and Korean-American Christianity by Jung H. ChoiChapter SevenYou Have Become Children of Sarah: Reading 1 Peter 3:1–6 through the Intersectionality of Asian Immigrant Wives, Patriarchy, and Honorary Whiteness by Janette H. OkAbout the Contributors

This volume is an urgently needed intervention into New Testament scholarship. First, it highlights the work of women of color within New Testament Studies, despite the structural racism that has produced a guild that is by vast majority male and white. Second, it acknowledges the recent surge of scholarship on ethnicity and race in the Classics and in the study of early Christianity, and exceeds them, offering historical ideas of race or ethnicity, and also intersectional analyses that balance past texts and present realities…. These essays take seriously the experiences and critical scholarly analyses of women of color and open up new ways of understanding New Testament texts.