The politics of heaven

women, gender, and empire in the study of Paul

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The politics of heaven

women, gender, and empire in the study of Paul

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Fortress Press
Language
English
Pages
213

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Table of Contents

Introduction: Interpretation at the intersection of methods
Starting points and parameters : feminist and postcolonial analysis Paul, Philippians, and the plan of this Book
Histories of interpretation and "people's history" in Pauline studies
Initial inquiries and imperial intersections in interpretation
Gaps, erasures, and conflicts
Procedure and precedent
People's possibilities : subaltern history and problems of perspective
People's history and Pauline studies
Back to the biblical : antiquity and feminist, postcolonial approaches
A hymn within and a heavenly politeuma
A heavenly politeuma and a hymn within rhetorical interactions and Pauline interpretation : a postcolonial Paul
Does this text encourage travel to distant and inhabited lands and how does it justify itself?
How does this text construct difference : is there dialogue and liberating interdependence or condemnation of all that is foreign?
Does this text employ gender and divine representations to construct relationships of subordination and domination?
Initial connections and conclusions
The rhetorics of imitation and postcolonial theories of mimicry
Imitation rhetorics in Paul and in Pauline scholarship
The promise and perils of postcolonial mimicry
Post-poning any undue celebrations : criticisms, cautions, and calibrations of postcolonial mimicry
Resistance, risks, and replications : on the limits of mimicry for a feminist postcolonial analysis
Women in the contact zone
Contact zone and transcultural interactions
Pauline travels and the Philippian contact zone
Concluding reflections and connections.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Minneapolis, MN

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
227/.06082
Library of Congress
BS2650.52 .M27 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
213

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL16818341M
Internet Archive
politicsofheaven0000marc
ISBN 13
9780800663001
LCCN
2008016228
OCLC/WorldCat
226212735
Library Thing
8368594
Goodreads
5687373

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OL9091278W

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