Women, Ritual, and Power

Placing Female Imagery of God in Christian Worship

Elizabeth Ursic (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2015
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-5284-5 (ISBN)

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Reveals the triumphs and struggles of contemporary Christian congregations to express female imagery of God in worship.

Many Christians do not know the Bible contains female images of God because they have never heard nor seen them in church. In Women, Ritual, and Power, Elizabeth Ursic gives the reader insight into four Christian communities that worship God with female imagery, both as a worship focus and a community identity. These Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, and Catholic congregations operate within their established church denominations and are led by either ordained Protestant ministers or vowed Catholic sisters. Because expressing God-as-She can expose strident claims for maintaining God-as-He, this book shows not only how patriarchy continues to operate in churches today, but also how it is being successfully challenged through liturgy.

Elizabeth Ursic is Professor of Religious Studies at Mesa Community College.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Strategic Emplacement

1. The Resource of Leadership: Wisdom’s Feast and United Methodism

2. The Resource of Personal Prayer Experience: Daughters of Wisdom Catholic Sisters

3. The Resource of Community: Motherhood of God and the Church of Scotland

4. The Resource of Evangelization: Lutheran herchurch

Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.7.2015
Zusatzinfo	Total Illustrations: 0
Verlagsort	Albany, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	227 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Liturgik / Homiletik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-4384-5284-5 / 1438452845
ISBN-13	978-1-4384-5284-5 / 9781438452845
Zustand	Neuware