Cultural Hermeneutics: A postcolonial look at mission

Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 23-40

  Russell, Letty M ^a  

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1. This course, in January 2002, was part of a program sponsored by San Francisco Theological Seminary and co-coordinated by Shannon Clarkson and me. See "Report on the International Feminist Doctor of Ministry Programme [D. Min.] for Ecumenical Leadership Development," Ministerial Formation 97 (April 2002): 66-70, available on the Web at http://www.wcc-coe.org/wcc/what/ education/mf97.pdf/
2. See Laura E. Donaldson and Kwok Pui-lan, eds., Postcolonialism, Feminism, and Religious Discourse (New York: Routledge, 2002), 5
3. Musa W. Dube, Postcolonial Feminist Interpretation of the Bible (St. Louis, MO: Chalice, 2000), 117-18
4. On the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians, see Mercy Amba Oduyoye, "The Story of a Circle," Ecumenical Review 53, no. 1 (January 2001): 97-100
5. Donaldson and Kwok, Postcolonialism, iv
6. Dube, Postcolonial Feminist Interpretation, 15-16
7. See, e.g., R. S. Sugirtharajah, ed., The Postcolonial Bible (Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998)
8. and Fernando F. Segovia and Mary Ann Tolbert, eds., Reading from This Place, 2 vols. (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995)
9. Mercy Amba Oduyoye, "Reflections from a Third World Woman's Perspective: Women's Experience and Liberation Theologies," in The Irruption of the Third World: The Challenge to Theology, ed. Virginia Fabella and Sergio Torres (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1983), 246 (Oduyoye's emphasis)
10. Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman, eds. , Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theory: A Reader (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994), 5-6
11. See Edward W. Said, Orientalism (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978)
12. See Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin, eds. , The Post-colonial Studies Reader (London: Routledge, 1995), 2
13. Sharon Ringe, "Places at the Table: Feminist Postcolonial Biblical Interpretation," in Sugirtharajah, Postcolonial Bible, 143.
14. Mary Ann Tolbert, "When Resistance Becomes Repression: Mark 13:9-27 and the Poetics of Location," in Segovia and Tolbert, Reading from This Place, vol. 2, Social Location and Biblical Interpretation in Global Perspective, 331-46
15. Adrienne Rich, "Blood, Bread, and Poetry: The Location of the Poet," in Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose, 1979-1985 (New York: Norton, 1986), 175
16. See also Mary Ann Tolbert, "Afterwords: The Politics and Poetics of Location," in Segovia and Tolbert, Reading from This Place, vol. 1, Social Location and Biblical Interpretation in the United States, 311-17
17. Tolbert, "When Resistance Becomes Repression," 333
18. The phrase "hearing into speech" is from Nelle Morton, The Journey Is Home (Boston: Beacon, 1985), 127-29.
19. Musimbi R. A. Kanyoro, Introducing Feminist Cultural Hermeneutics: An African Perspective (Cleveland: Pilgrim, 2002), 9
20. Mercy Amba Oduyoye, Daughters of Anowa: African Women and Patriarchy (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2000), 82
21. Mercy Amba Oduyoye, Introducing African Women's Theology (Cleveland: Pilgrim, 2001), 11-15
22. See also Mercy Amba Oduyoye, "Transforming Power: Paradigms from the Novels of Buchi Emecheta," in Talitha Cum! Theologies of African Women, ed. Nyambura J. Njoroge and Musa W. Dube (Pietermaritzburg, South Africa: Cluster, 2001)
23. Kanyoro, Introducing Feminist Cultural Hermeneutics, 19
24. Musimbi R. A. Kanyoro, "Cultural Hermeneutics: An African Contribution," in Other Ways of Reading: African Women and the Bible, ed. Musa W. Dube (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2001), 101-13
25. See J. C. Hoekendijk, "Notes on the Meaning of Mission(-ary)," in Planning for Mission: Working Papers on the New Quest for Missionary Communities, ed. Thomas Wieser (New York: U.S. Conference for the World Council of Churches, 1966), 37-48
26. Karl Barth, "Die Theologie und die Mission in der Gegenwart" (1932), in Theologische Fragen und Antworten 5:3 (Zollikon, Switzerland: Evangelischer Verlag. 1957), 100-126
27. quoted in Letty M. Russell, Church in the Round: Feminist Interpretation of the Church (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1993), 88
28. Russell, Church in the Round, 88-89
29. Elizabeth Johnson, She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse (New York: Crossroad, 1992), 13
30. Letty M. Russell, "Understanding the Trinity," Common Concern (World YWCA) 102 (June 1999): 12-16
31. Ivone Gebara, Longing for Running Water Ecofeminism and Liberation (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1999), 153
32. See also Ivone Gebara, "The Trinity and Human Experience: An Ecofeminist Approach," in Women Healing Earth: Third World Women on Ecology, Feminism, and Religion, ed. Rosemary Radford Ruether (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1996), 13-23
33. Stephen B. Bevans, "God Inside Out: Toward a Missionary Theology of the Holy Spirit," International Bulletin of Missionary Research 22 (July 1998): 102
34. The phrase "God inside out" extends the metaphor and missiological thinking of Johannes C. Hoekendijk, The Church Inside Out, ed. L. A. Hoedemaker and Pieter Tijmes, trans. Isaac C. Rottenberg (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1966)
35. Bevans, "God Inside Out," 103
36. See Kwok Pui-lan, "Unbinding Our Feet: Saving Brown Women and Feminist Religious Discourse," in Donaldson and Kwok, Postcolonialism, 62-81
37. Kwok Pui-lan, "The Image of the 'White Lady': Gender and Race in Christian Mission," in The Power of Naming: A "Concilium" Reader in Feminist Liberation Theology, ed. Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1996), 250-58
38. Kwok Pui-lan, Discovering the Bible in the Non-biblical World (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1995)
39. and Mercy Amba Oduyoye, Hearing and Knowing: Theological Reflections on Christianity in Africa (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1986), 81-98
40. See Katja Heidemanns, "Schritte auf dem Weg zu einer feministischen Missiologie," in Als hätten sie uns neu erfunden: Beobachtungen zu Fremdheit und Geschlecht, ed. Heike Walz, Christine Lienemann-Perrin, and Doris Strahm (Lucerne, Switzerland: Edition Exodus, 2003), 81-98
41. Mercy Amba Oduyoye, ed., "Women in Mission," special issue, International Review of Mission 81, no. 322 (April 1992)
42. Oduyoye, "Reflections," 247
43. See Musa W. Dube, "Empire and Mission in Matthew," in Postcolonial Feminist Interpretation, 127-55
44. See A. G. Hopkins, "Lessons of 'Civilizing Missions' Are Mostly Unlearned," New York Times, Week in Review section, March 25, 2003
45. Oduyoye, Hearing and Knowing, 29-41
46. Oduyoye, "Story of a Circle," 97
47. See also Musimbi Kanyoro, "Beads and Strands: Threading More Beads in the String of the Circle," in Her-Stories: Hidden Histories of Women of Faith in Africa, ed. Isabel Apawo Phiri, Devarakshanam Betty Govinden, and Sarojini Nadar (Pietermaritzburg, South Africa: Cluster, 2002), 15-38
48. Mercy Amba Oduyoye (Amba Ewudziwa), "Coming Home to Myself: The Childless Woman in the West African Space," in Liberating Eschatology: Essays in Honor of Letty M. Russell, ed. Margaret A. Farley and Serene Jones (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1999), 105-20
49. Musimbi Kanyoro, "Cultural Hermeneutics" (lecture, Ecumenical Institute of Bossey, Céligny, Switzerland, January 8, 2003).
50. Musa W. Dube, "Postcoloniality, Feminist Spaces, and Religion," in Donaldson and Kwok, Postcolonialism, 101
51. Kanyoro, "Beads and Strands," 36
52. June Ramage Rogers, Dream, Woman, Dream ... Dream Africa's Dream: An Invitation to a Partnership with African Women (Louisville, KY: Ghana Project of the Women's Ministries Program Area, Presbyterian Church [USA], 2000)
53. Kwok, "Image of the 'White Lady,'" 257
54. See Letty M. Russell, Christian Education in Mission (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1967)
55. See the works in Letty M. Russell, Kwok Pui-lan, Ada María Isasi-Díaz, Katie Geneva Cannon, eds., Inheriting Our Mothers' Gardens: Feminist Theology in Third World Perspective (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1988)
56. and Farley and Jones, Liberating Eschatology
57. José Míguez Bonino, "Genesis 11:1-9: A Latin American Perspective," in Return to Babel: Global Perspectives on the Bible, ed. Priscilla Pope-Levison and John R. Levison (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1999), 15-16
58. and Letty M. Russell, "The Church and God's Pentecostal Gift," in Renewing the Vision: Reformed Faith for the 21st Century, ed. Cynthia M. Campbell (Louisville, KY: Geneva, 2000), 51-65
59. Iris Marion Young, Justice and the Politics of Difference (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990), 156-91
60. "Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference" (1980), in Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde (Trumansburg, NY: Crossing, 1984), 115
61. Mercy Amba Oduyoye and Musimbi R. A. Kanyoro, eds., The Will to Arise: Women, Tradition, and the Church in Africa (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1997)
62. The unpublished report of the conference is Musimbi Kanyoro, ed. , "Sex, Stigma, and HIV/AIDS: African Women Challenging Religion, Culture, and Social Practices: Report of the Third Pan-African Conference of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, August 4-August 8, 2002."
63. Musa W. Dube, "Preaching to the Converted: Unsettling the Christian Church," Ministerial Formation 93 (April 2001): 43
64. Young, Justice, 171
65. Kanyoro, "Sex, Stigma, and HIV/AIDS," 7
66. Mercy Amba Oduyoye, "Dream Girl Dream," in "Be a Woman, and Africa Will Be Strong," in Russell et al., Inheriting Our Mothers' Gardens, 35 (emphasis added)