Women's Bodies as Battlefield: Christian Theology and the Global War on Women

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Springer, Feb 5, 2016 - Social Science - 224 pages
Christian theology has been complicit in justifying the war on women, but it also has resources to help finally declare peace in the war on women. War itself has come to resemble the war on women, and thus strategies to end the war on women, supported by new Christian theological interpretations, will also help end today's endless wars.
 

Contents

Injuring in the War on Women
31
Religious and Philosophical Roots
53
Christian Theological Sources
69
The Heroic Fictions of War
83
The Erotic Fictions of the War on Women 103
102
Just War and the War on Women
127
Peace and the War on Women 147
146
Toward an Embodied Theology of Just Peace
167
Can I Get a Witness? 183
182
Notes
197
Index
219
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Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite is a Professor of Theology and former President of Chicago Theological Seminary. An ordained minister of the United Church of Christ for over 30 years, she has authored and edited numerous works including Dreaming of Eden: American Religion and Politics in a Wired World, Sex, Race and God: Christian Feminism in Black and White, Lift Every Voice: Constructing Christian Theologies from the Underside (co-editor) and Interfaith Just Peacemaking: Alternatives to War (co-editor). Dr. Thistlethwaite is a frequent media commentator on religion and public events. She is a Fellow of the Center for American Progress Faith and Progressive Policy Initiative, and serves as a trustee of Faith in Public Life, and the Interfaith Youth Core.