Post-Christian Feminisms

Lisa Isherwood is Professor of Feminist Liberation Theologies and Director of Theology, University of Winchester, UK. Kathleen McPhillips is Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities and the Languages, University of Western Sydney, Australia

• Introduction, Lisa Isherwood, Kathleen McPhillips; Chapter 1 Beyond Reason: Towards a Post-Christian Philosophy of Religion, Beverley Clack; Chapter 2 The ‘Post-’ Age of Belief: Wither or Whither Christianity?, Pamela Sue Anderson; Chapter 3 Ecofeminist Thea/logies and Ethics: A Post-Christian Movement?, Rosemary Radford Ruether; Chapter 4 Material Elements: The Matter of Women, The Matter of Earth, The Matter of God, Anne Elvey; Chapter 5 Who’s Been Reading MY Bible? Post-structuralist Hermeneutics and Sacred Text, Janet Wootton; Chapter 6 Post-Christian Hermeneutics: The Rise and Fall of Female Subjectivity in Theological Narrative, J’annine Jobling; Chapter 7 The Bi/girl Writings: From Feminist Theology to Queer Theologies, Marcella Althaus-Reid; Chapter 8 Our Lady of Perpetual Succour: Mother of Phallic Fetishes?, Queering the Queen of Heaven, Lisa Isherwood; Chapter 9 De-colonizing the Sacred: Feminist Proposals for a Post-Christian,Post-Patriarchal Sacred, Kathleen McPhillips; Chapter 10 Melting Hearts of Stone, Mary T. Condren; Chapter 11 A Third Way: Explicating the Post in Post-Christian Feminism, Frances Gray, Kathleen McPhillips; Chapter 12 Re-Membering Jesus: A Post-colonial Feminist Remembering, Satoko Yamaguchi; Chapter 13 Jesus Past the Posts: An Enquiry into Post-metaphysical Christology, Lisa Isherwood; Chapter 14 The Return of the Living Dead, Elizabeth Stuart;

’Overall, the book is testament to the vibrancy of feminist theology, in being continuous with earlier writings, while demonstrating surefootedness in negotiation of the very different academic and political terrain of the early twenty-first century. The book is useful in making soundings into contemporary feminist theologies, which range from scholarly interventions in a wider discourse to impassioned expression of quintessential feminist consciousness.’ Theological Book Review