Towards Just Gender Relations

Rethinking the Role of Women in Church and Society

Gunter Prüller-Jagenteufel, Sharon Bong, Rita Perintfalvi

• Publisher: V&R Unipress
• Year: 2019
• ISBN:
  9783847009856
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Marriage & Family Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

All over the world there is the move towards just gender relations – even if the odds seem to be less hopeful than a decade ago. This poses a special task for Christians and Churches in service of the marginalised who engage in the fight for justice. The articles collected in this volume provide insights from two intercultural theological conferences. The topic for the European-Asian dialogue focuses on "Gender and Ecclesiology". The European dialogue between western and eastern Central European countries has a special aim for gender theories and their theological and political implications. The book presents contributions from different perspectives and shows how the Christian churches can contribute to gender justice.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Body
• Foreword
• Preface
• I. The Tagaytay Conference July 14–17, 2016
• Virginia Saldanha (Mumbai): Women at the Grassroots' Level of Church Leadership
• Gemma Simmonds (London): Women at the Grassroots' Level of Church Leadership (II)
• Kochurani Abraham (Kerala): Female Deacons and Women's Clerical Ordination
• Angela Berlis (Bern): Restoring the Female Diaconate in the Old Catholic Churches of the Union of Utrecht
• Christine E. Burke IBVM (Manila): Women as Ministers of the Sacrament of Reconciliation?
• Shalini Mulackal PBVM (Delhi): Women Religious as Vanguard of Women Participation: A Critical Study of the Role of Women Religious in the Church and Society
• Teresa Forcades i Vila OSB (Monastery of Montserrat): Religious Women as Vanguard of Women Participation in Church and Society
• Margaret Beirne RSC (Sydney): “Women Leadership in the Church”: Foundations in the New Testament
• Ramon Echica (Cebu): The Philippine Church: Beyond Clericalism in her Relations with the State
• Eamonn Conway (Limerick): A Church beyond Clericalism
• Sharon Bong (Bandar Sunway): Feminine Genius: Revisiting Gender Complementarity Today
• Martin Lintner (Bressanone) / Gunter Prüller-Jagenteufel (Vienna): Gendered Issues: A Critical Perspective on Catholic Sexual Ethics
• Serena Noceti (Florence): Women in a New Ecclesiology of the Laity
• II. The Vienna Conference. September 22–25, 2016
• Marianne Heimbach-Steins (Münster): Breaking Down Barriers, Creating Connections. Ways Towards a Constructive Gender Debate in the Catholic Church and Theology
• Gerhard Marschütz (Vienna): Surprisingly Bad. Theological Notes on Catholic Gender Critique
• Elzbieta Adamiak (Koblenz-Landau): The Social, Political and Religious Exchange over Gender Justice in Central and Eastern Europe, with Special Focus on Poland
• Maria K. Moser (Vienna): Beyond Victimization. Women Claim Speech and Responsibility
• Saskia Wendel (Cologne): Equality and/or Difference – a Gender-Sensitive Image of God
• Maaike de Haardt (Nijmegen): Mary: Portrait of an Im/Possible Image?
• Janine Redemann (Vechta): Strengthening the Role of Women in Ecclesiastical Decion-Making Processes
• Agnethe Siquans (Vienna): What's the Difference? Female Prophets in Early Christian Writings
• Tallessyn Grennfell-Lee (Massachusetts): Gender and Inclusive Liturgy: Patriarchy, Liturgical Language, and Liberation
• Nadja Furlan Stante (Maribor): Postmodern Perception of the Role of Women in Environmental Sensitization of the Roman Catholic Church
• Larissa Hrotkó (Budapest): The Social, Political and Religious Conflicts about Gender in Hungary and Hungarian Judaism
• Lídia Balogh (Budapest): The Evolution of Gender Roles and the Situation of Women in the Context of Protestant Traditions
• About the Authors