TY  - MANSCPT
AU  - Marchal,Joseph A.
TI  - The politics of heaven: women, gender, and empire in the study of Paul 
SN  - 9780800663001 (hardback)
AV  - BS2650.52 .M27 2008
U1  - 227.0608 Mar 2008 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Minneapolis, MN
PB  - Fortress Press
KW  - Bible
KW  - N.T
KW  - Epistles of Paul
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Sex role
KW  - Biblical teaching
KW  - Feminist theology
KW  - Postcolonialism
KW  - Christianity and politics
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0816/2008016228.html
ER  -