ABSTRACT

Much feminist debate in religion concerns the place of text in religious discourses, the weight and authority that should be given to those texts and the relationship between text and lived experience. A post-Christian, post-colonial condition makes it possible for feminist theological discourse to destabilize the relationships between text and tradition, between subject and knowledge. It may allow for the emergence of other, colonized voices, whose histories and stories have been repressed and hidden by colonial powers. In surveying the field of feminist theology, Wainwright seeks specific evidence for a re-imagination of Jesus from both marginalized and mainstream feminist perspectives. In particular, Wainwright draws on the work of Jacquelyn Grant, Kwok Pui-lan, Virginia Fabella, Chung Hyung Kyung and Anne Pattel-Gray. Pattel-Gray begins with contextualizing the conditions in which Aboriginal women have struggled for self-determination. She observes that this has remained largely hidden in Christian feminist discourse.