The Politics of Heaven Women, Gender, and Empire in the Study of Paul by Joseph A. Marchal

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Community of Christ Library

Name/Title

The Politics of Heaven Women, Gender, and Empire in the Study of Paul by Joseph A. Marchal

Description

Introduction: Interpretation at the intersection of approaches -- Starting points and parameters : feminist and postcolonial analysis -- Paul, Philippians, and the plan of this book -- Histories of interpretation and "people's history" in Pauline studies -- Initial inquiries and imperial intersections in interpretation -- Gaps, erasures, and conflicts -- Procedure and precedent -- People's possibilities : subaltern history and problems of perspective -- People's history and Pauline studies -- Genealogies, genders, gaps, and geopolitics in people's history -- Back to the biblical : antiquity and feminist, postcolonial approaches -- A hymn within and a heavenly politeuma -- A heavenly politeuma and a hymn within -- Rhetorical interactions and Pauline interpretation : a postcolonial Paul? -- Initial connections and conclusions -- The rhetorics of imitation and postcolonial theories of mimicry -- Imitation rhetorics in Paul and in Pauline scholarship -- The promise and perils of postcolonial mimicry -- Post-poning any undue celebrations : criticisms, cautions, and calibrations of postcolonial mimicry -- Resistance, risks, and replications : on the limits of mimicry for a feminist postcolonial analysis -- Women in the contact zone -- Contact zone and transcultural interactions -- Pauline travels and the Philippian contact zone -- Euodia and syntyche : reconstructing co-workers in the contact zone -- Concluding reflections and connections -- Reviewing the present project -- Elaborating further possibilities. xiii, 213 p. ;24 cm.

Book Details

Author

Marchal, Joseph A.

Place Published

City

Minneapolis, MN

Date Published

circa 2008

Publication Subjects

Bible.--Epistles of Paul--Criticism, interpretation, etc. Sex role--Biblical teaching. Feminist theology. Postcolonialism. Christianity and politics--Biblical teaching.

Call No.

BS2650.52 .M27 2008

ISBN

9780800663001 (alk. paper), 0800663004 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2008016228

Notes

Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-204) and index.