ABSTRACT

Post-theory continues used, important and cutting-edge discursive field which has revolutionized the production of knowledge in both feminism and theology. Although post-theory is established in language and institution, analyzing the current historical period continues to be problematic. Feminist theologies have benefited, utilized and created new theologies and critical analyses via post-modernism, post-colonialism, post-structuralism, post-feminism and post-biblical discourses. Genealogies of Christian feminisms provide accounts of the ways in which women engage with the politics of injustice and liberation, and it is largely from this agenda that post-Christian feminisms emerge. The central discourses of theology have all been the object of feminist analyses and in this respect constitute a post-Christian reading position. The central discourses of theology have all been the object of feminist analyses and in this respect constitute a post-Christian reading position. Frances Gray and Kathleen McPhillips consider the meaning of the term post' in both post-Christian and post-colonial accounts of the sacred in contemporary Australian cultural and theological analysis.