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Claiming Space in the Bible and Beyond

Exploring the Intersection of Gender, Sexuality, and Economic Realities

AvL. Juliana Claassens,Sithembiso Zwane

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Beskrivning

This collection of essays explores the way individuals and communities navigate complicated spaces which have been dominated by econo-heteropatriarchal powers to find their voice and claim their space.Using concepts of space from development studies, the volume explores the power of biblical narratives for communities to navigate the complex and multifaceted intersections between gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and economics in the biblical text as well as within the diverse interpretive communities the chapter authors represent. In particular, these contributions are interested in the role of art as a way for individuals and communities to exhibit their agency and so transform hostile spaces in which they inadvertently find themselves.The work is divided into three sections: Claiming Space in the Community, Claiming Space in the Text, Claiming Space in/through Art. The contemporary contexts engaged with include South Africa, India, Brazil, Aotearoa New Zealand, the margins of the United States of America, and Australia. Within these contexts a diverse range of communities struggle "to claim space," including unemployed young people, LGBTIQA+ communities, women migrant workers, survivors of sexual violence, women struggling to survive economically, ethnic others, women at home and at work, women lamenting and resisting imperialisms, colonial settlers, aboriginal people, LGBTQIA+ Christians, black women and children.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-03-19
Mått:160 x 236 x 24 mm
Vikt:620 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:264
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781666977424

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L. Juliana Claassens is Professor in Old Testament and Head of the Gender Unit at the Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University.Gerald O. West is Professor Emeritus in the School of Religion, Philosophy, and Classics in the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.Sithembiso Zwane is a lecturer in theology and development and Director of the Ujamaa Centre for Biblical and Theological Community Development and Research in the School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics (SPRC) in the College of Humanities at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

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Claiming Space in the Bible and Beyond is an illuminating and lively engagement with space-informed theories, methodologies, and unfinalized liberating hermeneutics. In a series of dialogic, highly nuanced, and contextually focused essays, this book combines critical theories about space, fluid and contested embodiments of space and spatial identities, and the exegetical and hermeneutical work of (biblical) interpretation that aims at intersectional liberation and flourishing. This book is theoretical and pedagogical and is sure to be a good companion into and out of various spaces where the marginalized live and work for freedom.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: On Claiming SpaceGerald O West, L Juliana Claassens, Sithembiso ZwanePart 1: Claiming Space In The CommunityChapter 1CBS as Invigorated Space: Discerning Potential Participatory Development Space with Ruth (1:22-2:23)Gerald West, Sithembiso Zwane and Helder CarlosChapter 2Decolonising Feminist Knowledge Production Processes: Reading Ruth with Vulnerable, Trafficked and Migrant Working WomenSanjana Das Chapter 3Queer Samba: Exploring the Limits and Possibilities of Indecency in Our Lady Aparecida’s Devotion in BrazilGiovanna Sarto and André Sidnei MusskopfPart 2: Claiming Space In The TextChapter 4A Closed Space: The Ten Women Shut Up by DavidDavid TombsChapter 5Claiming Economic Space: The “Courageous Woman” of Proverbs 31:10-31 within the Context of her Ancient HouseholdHendrik L. BosmanChapter 6“Who Let the Dogs Out”? Claiming Space With and Through Matthew’s Canaanite Canine-WomenTat-siong Benny LiewChapter 7Paul’s Conceived Space and Women’s Lived Space: Teasing Out Gender and Agency in 1 CorinthiansJeremy PuntPart 3: Claiming Space In/Through ArtChapter 8The Narrative is Crumbling: (Female) Agency in Prophet Song (Paul Lynch) and Nahum 2L. Juliana ClaassensChapter 9National Re/Production: Women and Contested Spaces in Judges and BelovedSteed Vernyl DavidsonChapter 10Colonial Violence in the Contested Space of Ecclesiastical-Stained-glassAlexandra BanksChapter 11Ons Kom tot Verhaal: Reflections on the Development of a Queer Narrative Archive as a Queer Invented SpaceCharlene van der Walt and R. Louis van der RietList of Contributors