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A groundbreaking collection of writings that place queer ritual at
the center of the theological conversation. In this collection of
essays, leading scholars in queer theology and liturgical studies
explore the ways in which the distinctive theological voices of
LGBTQIA+ Christians challenge and expand thinking and practice
around worship in new directions. This challenge has expanded in
the past decades, as obstacles to the full participation of queer
Christians—particularly in marriage and ordination—have fallen.
Organized into three main parts, the volume begins with an
introduction to queer engagement with ritual practices, continues
with a series of case studies that examine queer texts and
contexts, and concludes with an examination of the horizons of
queer liturgical theology and practice. Throughout the volume,
Queering Christian Worship provides new imagination and tools to
those who study and curate Christian worship across traditions.
This assemblage of feminist theologies represents a series of vital
entanglements. Chapters are written from different cultures,
geographies and discourses and brought together around themes as
specific and wide-ranging as immigration detention, hate crime,
discrimination, rites of marriage and partnership, and artistic and
religious imagination. The contributors variously echo, celebrate,
question and contradict each other. Despite the complexity and
allied as they are with liberation, decolonial, ecological, queer
and other theologies, these perspectives seek not only to confront
and resist the problems, oppressions, and omissions of hegemonic
theologies but also to realize better worlds.
A groundbreaking collection of writings that place queer ritual at
the center of the theological conversation. In this collection of
essays, leading scholars in queer theology and liturgical studies
explore the ways in which the distinctive theological voices of
LGBTQIA+ Christians challenge and expand thinking and practice
around worship in new directions. This challenge has expanded in
the past decades, as obstacles to the full participation of queer
Christians—particularly in marriage and ordination—have fallen.
Organized into three main parts, the volume begins with an
introduction to queer engagement with ritual practices, continues
with a series of case studies that examine queer texts and
contexts, and concludes with an examination of the horizons of
queer liturgical theology and practice. Throughout the volume,
Queering Christian Worship provides new imagination and tools to
those who study and curate Christian worship across traditions.
In Vulnerability and Resilience, vulnerability is not the final
word. Rather, resilience provides the cutting edge and living
breath in the stories of subjects who are vulnerable. And they have
many stories: stories of being trapped in bodies, teachings, and/or
situations that make them (and others like them) vulnerable to
discrimination, hatred, and rejection; stories of being trapped
because of their bodies, theologies, and/or cultures; and stories
of being trapped for no-good reason. For subjects who are
vulnerable, life is like a maze of traps, and stories of resilience
keep them going. The contributors to Vulnerability and Resilience
refuse to be trapped. At the intersection of body and liberation
theologies, they tell their stories in the hope that they will
expose cultures that make individuals and communities vulnerable,
and that those stories will encourage vulnerable subjects to be
resilient and bring change to theological institutions that
conserve vulnerability. Because of the location of the
contributors-the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, Caribbean, and
Oceania-this book is a testimony that vulnerability is present all
over the world, and that resilience is a liberating alternative.
This book presents theological, cultural, ecclesial and
hermeneutical explorations from a specific context-Australia-and
invites reimagining of theology and hermeneutics. The horizons of
contextuality explored in this book include indigeneity and
sovereignty, contingencies of context, feminist theology,
multiculturalism and intercultural theologies, sexual abuse and
ecclesial coverups, suicide and worship, tradition(ing)s and
betrayal, art and popular culture, climate effect and climate
justice, disability theories, Islamic insights, migration and the
images of home, and heaps of contextual matters in between. The
chapters are organized into three sections: (1) Roots presents some
of the starting points for contextual thinking in Australia and
yonder; (2) Wounds attends to the demands of "bodies on the line"
upon theological, biblical and ecclesial engagements; (3) Shifts
pokes at thinkers and critics.
Of particular interest to scholars and practitioners across the
Anglican Communion with contributions from a wide breadth of
scholars. Liturgical Spirituality is a collection of Anglican
reflections on the spirituality of the liturgy, inviting readers
into the Church s patterns of prayer, seasons of the year, and
sacramental action. With contributions from all over the world,
from the North Atlantic to Australia, the collection helps develop
a comprehensive understanding of contemporary Anglican
spirituality."
What does it mean to be engaged in Christian ministry in a shifting
spiritual and religious landscape? Stephen Burns invites readers to
think anew about the distinctiveness of public practices of
pastoral presence. Rather than narrowly defining pastoral care and
pastoral theology (pastoral counseling, preaching, youth groups,
visits to elders, etc.) and theological academic categories
(history, pastoral theology, liturgy, ethics and contemporary
sociology), he argues for a new imagination and practice of
pastoral presence - a presence that is representative, public,
integrated, and expansive. Study guide included.
Postcolonial studies has challenged the Eurocentric frameworks and
methodologies in the fields of biblical studies and theology.
Postcolonial Practice of Ministry is a groundbreaking anthology
that enables a new engagement between postcolonial and practical
theologies, focused on three key areas of the practice of ministry:
pastoral leadership, liturgical celebration, and interfaith
engagement. Postcolonial Practice of Ministry will make an impact
in at least two areas of theological reflection: first, among
postcolonial scholars, it will stretch postcolonial theology into
an area where it has been neglected; second, it will provide a
comprehensive resource for rethinking the practice of ministry.
Contributors to this volume are well-known scholars from different
racial, national, and denominational backgrounds, bringing with
them experiences of hybrid identities and multicultural churches.
Many of them are pioneers in introducing postcolonial discourse to
their fields.
Public Theology is a rapidly growing international field of study
which focuses on how Christian belief and practice engage with
wider social issues. Yet, whilst the ultimate concern of public
theology is the well-being of society, this body of theology has
largely developed without integrating the thinking of feminist
theology and its insights into womens' lives and experience. Public
Theology and the Challenge of Feminism argues that public theology
risks re-inscribing traditional constructs of public and private,
civic and domestic, and uncritical notions of gender and the work
and worth of people. The book brings together both theory and case
material to expose how public theology has actively downplayed or
ignored feminist perspectives and to reveal how constructive
feminism can be for the future of public theology.
Christian Worship: Postcolonial Perspectives critically surveys and
scrutinizes the terrain of liturgical theology through postcolonial
optics. In doing so, it breaks new ground by bringing together for
the first time liturgical studies and postcolonial criticism. This
book provides an important enrichment - and long overdue corrective
- to literature on the liturgical ordo, which has not yet learned
to engage postcolonial perspectives. The volume also offers useful
resources to those familiar with the more established field of
postcolonial biblical/theological criticism by expanding the
burgeoning academic debate about postcolonialism into the
environment of worship. It therefore seeks to be a resource that
will bring postcolonial perspectives to a wider audience: the
church, much of which has been bypassed by the academic trajectory
postcolonial criticism in theology has so far taken. Because of its
inter-disciplinary nature, this book advances significant
innovative material. The particular ways that material from each
discipline is juxtaposed is itself highly original, and the
challenges of appropriating postcolonial theological perspectives
in Christian worship and liturgical practice will be met by the
provision of strategies and resources to face this task. This
important work of theology is, therefore, crafted to praxis in
assemblies of the church as well as suitable for study in
universities and seminary classrooms.
Ludwig Wittgenstein loved movies, and based on his remarks on
watching them, there is a strong connection between his experience
of watching films and his thoughts on aesthetics. Furthermore,
however, Wittgenstein himself has been invoked in recent cinema.
Wittgenstein at the Movies is centered on in-depth explorations of
two intriguing experimental films on Wittgenstein: Derek Jarman's
Wittgenstein and Peter Forgacs' Wittgenstein Tractatus. The
featured essays look at cinematic interpretations of Wittgenstein's
life and philosophy in a manner bound to provoke the lively
interest of Wittgenstein scholars, film theorists, and students of
film aesthetics. As well, the book engages a broader audience
concerned with philosophical issues about film and Wittgenstein's
cultural significance, with the world of fin-de-siecle Vienna, of
Cambridge in the first half of the twentieth century, of artistic
modernism.
Christian Worship: Postcolonial Perspectives critically surveys and
scrutinizes the terrain of liturgical theology through postcolonial
optics. In doing so, it breaks new ground by bringing together for
the first time liturgical studies and postcolonial criticism. This
book provides an important enrichment - and long overdue corrective
- to literature on the liturgical ordo, which has not yet learned
to engage postcolonial perspectives. The volume also offers useful
resources to those familiar with the more established field of
postcolonial biblical/theological criticism by expanding the
burgeoning academic debate about postcolonialism into the
environment of worship. It therefore seeks to be a resource that
will bring postcolonial perspectives to a wider audience: the
church, much of which has been bypassed by the academic trajectory
postcolonial criticism in theology has so far taken. Because of its
inter-disciplinary nature, this book advances significant
innovative material. The particular ways that material from each
discipline is juxtaposed is itself highly original, and the
challenges of appropriating postcolonial theological perspectives
in Christian worship and liturgical practice will be met by the
provision of strategies and resources to face this task. This
important work of theology is, therefore, crafted to praxis in
assemblies of the church as well as suitable for study in
universities and seminary classrooms.
Public Theology is a rapidly growing international field of study
which focuses on how Christian belief and practice engage with
wider social issues. Yet, whilst the ultimate concern of public
theology is the well-being of society, this body of theology has
largely developed without integrating the thinking of feminist
theology and its insights into womens' lives and experience. Public
Theology and the Challenge of Feminism argues that public theology
risks re-inscribing traditional constructs of public and private,
civic and domestic, and uncritical notions of gender and the work
and worth of people. The book brings together both theory and case
material to expose how public theology has actively downplayed or
ignored feminist perspectives and to reveal how constructive
feminism can be for the future of public theology.
Photoshop is the cornerstone of the graphics industry and
understanding its 3D capabilities is becoming a requirement for
graphic designers, photographers, and creatives alike. Starting
with the fundamental tools and ending with advanced resources,
Adobe Community Professional Stephen Burns guides you with a clear
voice and creative exercises that encourage you to work as you
read. Accompanied by a free app that includes video tutorials,
interactive models to compare your activity work from the book
against, and on-going updates about the latest Photoshopreleases,
this book will elevate your art off the page and into a new world
of possibilities. (The app is available for the iPad and iPhone in
the iTunes App Store, and Android users can find it through Google
Play. Just search for 3D Photoshop on either of these platforms and
download it to your device.)
In Vulnerability and Resilience, vulnerability is not the final
word. Rather, resilience provides the cutting edge and living
breath in the stories of subjects who are vulnerable. And they have
many stories: stories of being trapped in bodies, teachings, and/or
situations that make them (and others like them) vulnerable to
discrimination, hatred, and rejection; stories of being trapped
because of their bodies, theologies, and/or cultures; and stories
of being trapped for no-good reason. For subjects who are
vulnerable, life is like a maze of traps, and stories of resilience
keep them going. The contributors to Vulnerability and Resilience
refuse to be trapped. At the intersection of body and liberation
theologies, the contributors tell their stories in the hope that
they will expose cultures that make individuals and communities
vulnerable, and that those stories will encourage vulnerable
subjects to be resilient and bring change to theological
institutions that conserve vulnerability. Because of the location
of the contributors-in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe,
Caribbean, and Oceania-this book is testimony that vulnerability is
present all over the world, and that resilience is a liberating
alternative.
Photoshop is the cornerstone of the graphics industry and
understanding its 3D capabilities is becoming a requirement for
graphic designers, photographers, and creatives alike. Starting
with the fundamental tools and ending with advanced resources,
Adobe Community Professional Stephen Burns guides you with a clear
voice and creative exercises that encourage you to work as you
read. Accompanied by a free app that includes video tutorials,
interactive models to compare your activity work from the book
against, and on-going updates about the latest Photoshopreleases,
this book will elevate your art off the page and into a new world
of possibilities. (The app is available for the iPad and iPhone in
the iTunes App Store, and Android users can find it through Google
Play. Just search for 3D Photoshop on either of these platforms and
download it to your device.)
The SCM Studyguide: Liturgy, 2nd Edition is an introduction to
liturgy that considers the basic 'buliding blocks' needed to grasp
the subject area. It outlines the essential shape and content of
Christian worship and explores a range of liturgical dynamics of
which both students of liturgy and leaders of liturgy need to be
aware. This 2nd edition of the popular Studyguide is fully revised,
updated and expanded. The book takes account of new developments in
scholarship, engages with new contexts for liturgical celebration
(notably, fresh expressions as part of a mixed economy of church),
encompasses recent revisions in liturgy and seeks to broaden the
engagement beyond the British context to consider the wider global
context.
Feminist practical theology has emerged in the gap between wider
feminist and wider practical theology. It celebrates distinctive
concerns, arguments, emphases, and questions – unafraid to
re-form practical theology in shape and substance, and to guide
feminist theology towards the silences and stories of human lives
that some professional theologies (including those shaped by
feminist commitments) sometimes overlooks. Feminist practical
theology is bold in exploration of doctrinal themes in poetic and
prayerful modes, characteristically collaborative and in search of
alliances with other advocacy perspectives. In the UK, such
commitments have been exemplified by Nicola Slee, whom this volume
honours. Chapters invite readers into wide ranging conversations
that flow from young women’s experiences at university, poetic
practice as theology, queer priesthood, theologies of critical
masculinities, women presiding in worship, Black and decolonial
theologies adjacent to feminist convictions, confrontations with
sexual violence, rest and rewilding, and a post-menopausal Mary.
Contributors are: Al Barrett, Gavin D’Costa, Deborah Kahn-Harris,
Michael N. Jagessar, Sharon Jagger, Rachel Mann, Jenny Morgans,
Eleanor Nesbitt, Karen O’Donnell, Mark Pryce, Anthony G. Reddie,
Ruth Shelton, Anne Phillips and Alison Wooley.
Mary, Mother of Jesus, has been the focus of much piety and
theology down the centuries, and whatever it is she represents has
been and remains central to the vitality of Christianity in many
parts of the world. Grace is Not Faceless collects the essential
writings and addresses on Mary by Ann Loades, one of the most
important contributors to contemporary feminist Marian theology,
especially from an Anglican perspective. Including both rare and
original material spanning more than thirty years, this volume
traces the trajectories of Loades' distinctive writings on Mary;
for example, her emphasis on Mary in the arts, her attention to the
iconology of the Rabbula Gospels, and the key she finds to
approaching the Mother of Jesus in Cornelius Ernst's memorable
phrase 'grace is not faceless'. It is prefaced with a substantial
introduction by Stephen Burns, providing significant context both
for the chapters and the wider work of Ann Loades herself.
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