Bodies in Question: Gender, Religion, Text

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ISBN: 9780754635307 | 0754635309
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 11/28/2005

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Exploring a range of subjects from the human genome project to Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling, the poetry of Jorie Graham to feminist Christian art, the contributors pose questions around the theme 'Body and Voice'. Questions raised include: 'Who speaks for the foetus and on what basis?'; 'What effect does the near-sacrifice of Isaac have on mother Sarah's body?'; and 'What do embodiment and gender mean for the resurrected body and Jesus's body?'

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List of Contributors

Introduction: Gender, Religion, Text: Body and Voice (Körper and Kommunikation)

Darlene Bird and Yvonne Sherwood

Part I: Unexpected Women

1 When Johannes de Silentio Sounds Like Johanna de Silentio: Strange Harmonies and Discords in the 'Attunement' Section of Fear and Trembling

(12)

Yvonne Sherwood

2 The Feminine Aspect of God in the Book of Bahir

(14)

Carola Goetzen-Krieg

Part II: Indecent/Subversive Women

3 Symbolism and the Power of Art: Female Representations of Christ Crucified

(28)

Julie Clague

4 Playing the Whore: Gender Performance and Basic Instinct in Genesis 38

(14)

Sarah Nicholson

Part III: Demonic/Angelic Women

5 The Possession of Women in Antiquity: Stories of Conflict

(14)

Gudrun Guttenberger

6 Women, Magic and Angels: On the Emancipation of Job's Daughters in the Apocryphal Testament of Job

(22)

Heike Omerzu

Part IV: Techno Bodies

7 The Power of Potential Bodies: Theological Responses to New Reproductive Technologies

107

(14)

Jacci Stoyle

8 CyberSex: David Cronenberg's Vision of a Bodily Communion with Technology

121

(10)

Jessica Lindohf

Part V: The Question of the Body in Literature, Theology and Philosophy

9 Literature and Theology: Sex in the Relationship

131

(16)

Heather Walton

10 The Body in the Text: Iris Murdoch's Embodied Writing Style in The Sovereignty of Good

147

(16)

Marije Altorf

Part VI: Future Bodies

11 The Joy and Sorrow of the Flesh: Jorie Graham's 'At Luca Signorelli's Resurrection of the Body'

163

(10)

Darlene Bird

12 'Like Angels in Heaven': Mark's Understanding of Humanity in the New Creation

173

(14)

Susan Miller

13 'Fremdkörper' (alien body) or caro salutis est cardo? On the Precise Nature of Christ's Body in Tertullian and his Adversaries

187

(12)

Katharina Greschat

Index

199

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