ABSTRACT

This anthology will explore the new directions of conversations occurring in relation to feminism and religion, as well as the technological modes being utilized to continue dialogue, expand borders, and create new frontiers in feminism. It is a cross generational project bringing together the voices of foremothers with those of the twenty-first century generation of feminist scholars to discuss the changing direction of feminism and religion, new methods of dialogue, and the benefits for society overall.

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

part I|92 pages

Expanding Borders through Social Media

chapter 1|11 pages

#FemReligionFuture

The New Feminist Revolution in Religion

chapter 2|14 pages

Blogging as Religious Feminist Activism

Ministry To, Through, With, and From

chapter 3|13 pages

Mormon Feminist Blogs and Heavenly Mother

Spaces for Ambivalence and Innovation in Practice and Theology

chapter 4|10 pages

Being Undone by the Other

Feminisms, Blogs, and Critique

chapter 5|12 pages

The Catholic Church and Social Media

Embracing [Fighting] a Feminist Ideological Theo-Ethical Discourse and Discursive Activism

chapter 6|8 pages

From Typewriters to Social Networking

A Feminist Organization's Techno History

chapter 7|11 pages

Television, Social Networking, and Cultural Criticism

Alternative Methodologies for Feminist Scholarship

part II|85 pages

Feminism and Alternative Communities

chapter 9|11 pages

Private Space, Public Forum

A Netnographic Exploration of Muslim American Women, Access, and Agency in “Islamic” Cyberspace

chapter 10|18 pages

Faith from Nowhere

Feminist Ecclesiological Reflections on the “Liquid Catholicism” of New Media

chapter 11|11 pages

From Telephone to Live Broadcast

Becoming a Brick-and-Mortar Synagogue without Walls

chapter 12|12 pages

Creating “Open-Source” Community

Just Hospitality or Cyberspace Ivory Tower?

chapter 13|14 pages

The Mormon “Ordain Women” Movement

The Virtue of Virtual Activism

part III|28 pages

Embodiment and Technology

chapter 15|12 pages

Inter-cendent Bodies

A Study of Cyborgs, Relational Theo/alogy, and Multiple Embodiment in 21st-Century Gaming

chapter 16|14 pages

Broken Body, Virtual Body

Cyberfeminism and the Changing Goddess