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Nicola Slee, one of the world's leading feminist practical theologians, brings together 15 years of papers, articles, talks and sermons, many of them previously unpublished. Drawing on a wide and diverse range of her writing, Slee demonstrates the richness and variety of feminist practical theological writing.

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Religion

Christianisme

Christian Theology

Philosophie et théologie

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Publié par	Hymns Ancient & Modern
Date de parution	30 septembre 2020
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780334059103
Langue	English

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Fragments for Fractured Times
What Feminist Practical Theology Brings to the Table
Nicola Slee

© Nicola Slee 2020
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Contents
Acknowledgements
Part 1: Fragments for Fractured Times
Introduction
1. Fragments for Fractured Times: What Feminist Practical Theology Brings to the Table
Part 2: A Feminist Practical Theology of Liturgy and Prayer
2. Poetry, Psalmody and Prayer in Feminist Perspective
3. How Many Ways are there of Praying?
4. God-language in Public and Private Prayer: A Place for Integrating Gender, Sexuality and Faith
5. Riting the Body: Making and Reclaiming Liturgical Space
Part 3: A Feminist Practical Spirituality
6. A Spirituality of Multiple Overwhelmings
7. The Landscape of the Gap: Charting a Cartography
8. The Work of Standing, the Joy of Dancing: A Spirituality to Sustain the Long Haul
Part 4: A Feminist Practical Theological Poetics
9. Poetry as Divination: What Poetry Means for Faith
10. (W)riting Like a Woman: In Search of a Feminist Theological Poetics
11. Theological Reflection in extremis : Remembering Srebrenica
Part 5: Feminist Theological Practices: Teaching, Reading, Writing and Research
12. Presiding in the Classroom: A Holy Work
13. Research as Transformative Spiritual Practice
14. Reading and Writing as Transformative Spiritual Practice
15. Feminist Qualitative Research as Spiritual Practice: Reflections on the Process of Doing Research
Part 6: A Feminist Practical Theology of the Christa
16. Re-imagining Christ as the Coming Girl: An Advent Experiment
17. #Me Too: A Reflection on Edwina Sandys’ Christa
18. The Crucified Christa: A Re-evaluation
19. In Praise of God as Feisty Crone

Acknowledgements of Copyright Sources

For Stephen Burns, Ashley Cocksworth and Rachel Starr colleagues, friends and companions at the table with gratitude and delight

Acknowledgements
I am grateful for each of the invitations I have received from a wide variety of individuals and groups – to lecture, speak, preach, lead workshops, retreats or quiet days – that have occasioned the pieces that follow. I describe briefly the specific context out of which each piece arose in an introductory note that heads up each chapter, gladly acknowledging the gift of invitations that called out new work, as well as acknowledging where material has been previously published. While one frequently hears prophecies of doom about the future of theology in universities, I have been immensely heartened by the number and range of amateur theological societies and associations up and down the land, in places large and small, as well as lively groups in university settings I have had the pleasure of encountering. If people of all faiths and none, with varying levels of formal theological education, can pitch up in all weathers to hear talks on all subjects, there must be something good going on, and I’m glad to have been part of some of this informal, lay theological ferment as well as more formal, academic settings.
I am delighted that Jan Richardson gave permission to use her beautiful collage, Christ among the scraps , on the cover. I have come to know Jan’s work, both as a writer and a visual artist, in recent years, and found it deeply resonant with my own work; it is therefore a great joy to be able to use an example of her work that I consider embodies both the spirit and material content of this book. Dede Tyndall experimented with an alternative cover image and, although we have not, in the end, used it, I hope there will be occasion to share Dede’s vibrant image, based on Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party installation, with others – including readers of this book – in the future.
I owe much to David Shervington, senior commissioning editor at SCM Press, who has borne with the various delays to this book with gentle patience and then moved swiftly to bring the manuscript to publication. I am grateful to my old friend Hannah Ward for her painstaking and theologically astute copy-editing of the manuscript; her eagle eye, combined with an extensive knowledge of theology, has improved both the style and the substance of all that follows.
I owe much to a whole company of theologians – practical, feminist and otherwise, scholars and practitioners, living and departed – whose companionship, conversation and shared commitments have helped to form and shape my own feminist practical theological convictions and practice. First and foremost, my colleagues at Queen’s over more than twenty years have been the best people to work, think, eat and pray with. Peter Fisher first invited me to Queen’s as a scholar in residence in 1997 for a term and I have never managed (or wanted) to get away! Peter and Elizabeth’s generous hospitality set a tone for all that has followed; I owe much to them, and more recently to David Hewlett for his wise and creative leadership as well as his unstinting personal support. As I write this, I am very much looking forward to continuing to work with my colleague Professor Clive Marsh in his new role as Principal of Queen’s. While I never imagined I would remain at Queen’s so long, it has been for me, almost always, a generous and supportive community within which my gifts have flourished and been widely shared. I am bound to miss out some at Queen’s over the years who have been significant conversation partners, particularly since the list includes former students as well as staff colleagues, but I must pay tribute to at least some of them, including Dave Allen, Eunice Attwood, Al Barrett, Mukti Barton, Robert Beckford, Robert Bruce, Sarah Bruce, David Bryan, Stephen Burns, Rod Burton, Sue Burton, Helen Dixon Cameron, Stephen Canning, Clare Carson, Andrew Chandler, Ash Cocksworth, Paul Collins, Ann Conway-Jones, Naomi Cooke, Janet Corlett, Jane Craske, Deseta Davis, Jonathan Dean, Chris Dowd, Donald Eadie, Alison Earey, Mark Earey, Jess Foster, Simon Foster, Julian Francis, Michael Gale, Ray Gaston, Paula Gooder, Gary Hall, Ruth Harley, Jeanette Hartwell, Andrew Hayes, Adam Hood, John Hull, Omari Hutchinson, Michael Jagessar, Alison Joyce, Peter Kevern, Sin Ai Kim, Lee Longden, Andy Lyons, Rachel Mann, Dulcie McKenzie, Vincent Manoharan, Rosemary Maskell, Neil Messer, Ruth Midcalf, Christina Le Moignan, Jenny Morgans, Lynnette Mullings, Paul Nzacahayo, Val Ogden, Fran Porter, Judith Rossall, Andrea Russell, Sheila Russell, Anthony Reddie, Joshva Raja, Kerry Scarlett, Melusi Sibanda, Jennifer Smith (both of them), Susie Snyder, Ian Spencer, Dennis Stamps, Helen Stanton, Rachel Starr, Richard Sudworth, Evie Vernon, Jane Wallman-Girdlestone, Tom Walsh, George Wauchoup, David Wood, Kathleen Wood, Alison Woolley and Christine Worsley.
Former colleagues in other theological educational institutions – Roehampton University, the Southwark Ordination Course (SOC) and the Aston Training Scheme – have continued to inform my thinking and practice; some of the best theological conversations I have ever had took place at residential events on SOC or Aston, and I gladly pay tribute to Martin Baddeley, Bob Dickinson, Neil Evans, Peter Hammersley, Georgie Heskins, James Langstaff, Cathy Michell, Peter Privett, Alan Race, Ruth Shelton, Ian Shield, Roger Spiller and Ian Wallis for those free-ranging conversations. More recently, I have been delighted to form friendships with new colleagues at the Faculty of Religion and Theology at the Vrije Universiteit (VU), Amsterdam. I owe a particular debt of gratitude to the former Dean of the Faculty, Wim Janse, and the present Dean, Ruard Ganzevoort, for their colleagueship and support, as well as to Dirk-Martin Grube who was, for a number of years, the Queen’s–VU liaison professor with whom I have worked closely. Joep Dubbink, Manuela Kalsky, Miranda Klaver, Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte, Joke van Saan, Peter-Ben Smit, Gerdien Bertram-Troost and Arie Zweip have also offered me much valued support and friendship. I have been glad to become better acquainted with colleagues from the International Baptist Theological Seminary, which is partnered, like Queen’s, with VU, and am particularly grateful to David McMillan, Mike Pears and Marianne van Zwieten for their hospitality. Since 2017 I have been a Visiting Professor at the University of Chester and have had the pleasure of working closely with Hannah Bacon, Elaine Graham, Dawn Llewellyn and Wayne Morris, at various times and in different capacities; I admire each of their work and have learnt much from each of them.
Having been involved in various theological establishments for several decades, I am glad to have made the acquaintance of theologians up and down the country and more widely i