Tending to Stories in Feminist Theologies

Tending to Stories in Feminist Theologies is interested in the place of story-tellers in communities of hope. Where some theologies wrestle for clarity of definition, feminist and other theologies of liberation begin from experience and tend towards story as a vehicle for speaking of the Divine.

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Helena Kadmos is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Notre Dame Australia, on the Fremantle campus on Wadjuk Country, and a writer of short fiction and non-fiction.

Katharine Massam is Professor of History and Chair of the Academic Board at the University of Divinity, based at St Paschal's campus on Wurundjeri-Woi-wurrung Country in Melbourne, Australia.

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Tending to Stories in Feminist Theologies is interested in the place of story-tellers in communities of hope. Where some theologies wrestle for clarity of definition, feminist and other theologies of liberation begin from experience and tend towards story as a vehicle for speaking of the Divine.

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1.Origins: An Introduction *Part 2: Stories of Ecologies 2. Hidden in Plain Sight: Story as Methodology 3. Being among the Storied Life of Trees 4. Moved and Moving: The Possibilities of Storying and Art-making for Worlds in Flux Rebekah Pryor Part 3: Stories of Women and Jesus 5. Divine Sisterhood 6. Veronica in the Roman Catholic Stations of the Cross 7. A Woman, her Bleeding and Lemon-scented Theology through a Liberative Disability Lens Wendy Elson Part 4: Stories of the Past Remembered 8. Left Alone: Examining a Storied Interpretation of Acts 16:16-19 9. Mary of Egypt: A Theological Queering 10. When Stories Collide: A Relationship between Women Centuries Apart 11. Good Grace: Stories of Emotion and Women's Experience in the Methodist Mission to Papua Part 5: Stories of Fractures and Healing 12. Self-Realisation and Participation in the Divine: A Surmountable Tension? 13. Listening as Sacrament: An Act of Solidarity with the Spirit 14. Writing a Liturgy to Mark the Termination of Pregnancy: Reflections on Process and Vulnerability 15. Relational Autonomy Through Intergenerational Storytelling Part 6: Stories of Truth-telling 16. Tending and Befriending: Reframing Solidarity as Relational Praxis 17. 'Mirth is Next to Grace': Humour, Danger and the Stories that Liberate 18. Creating Space to Tell us True. Index*