Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Manchester

THE SHERMAN LECTURES 2008

PROF. MELISSA RAPHAEL-LEVINE
UNIVERSITY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Publications

 

BOOKS

Thealogy and Embodiment: The Post-Patriarchal Reconstruction of Female Sacrality (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996).

Rudolf Otto and the Concept of Holiness. (Oxford: Oxford University Press/Clarendon Press, 1997, reprinted 2001).

Introducing Thealogy : Discourse on the Goddess (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999/ Cleveland, Ohio: Pilgrim Press, 2000).

The Female Face of God in Auschwitz: A Jewish Feminist Theology of the Holocaust (London & New York: Routledge, 2003).

Judaism and the Visual: A Jewish Aesthetic Theology (Continuum: London and New York, forthcoming, 2007)


ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

'Doing Green Justice to God: Immanentism in Contemporary Feminist Spirituality', Theology in Green 5 (1993), pp. 34-41.

'At the East End of Eden: A Feminist Spirituality of Gardening Our Way Past the Flaming Sword', Feminist Theology 4 (1993), pp. 101-110.

'Feminism, Constructivism and Numinous Experience', Religious Studies 30 (1994): 511-526.

'"Cover not our blood with thy silence": Sadism, Eschatological Justice and Female Images of the Divine.' Feminist Theology 8 (1995): 85-105.

'What is Feminist Theology?' in Joe Jenkins, Christianity (London: Heinemann, 1995).

'Hermeneutics', 'Models of God', 'Salvation', 'Laws of Purity': essays for An A-Z of Feminist Theology (ed.) D. McEwan and L. Isherwood, (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996).

'Truth in Flux: Goddess Feminism as a Late Modern Religion', Religion (1996) 26, 199-213.

'J. Ellice Hopkins: The Construction of a Recent Spiritual Feminist Foremother', Feminist Theology 13 (1996), 73-95.

'Thealogy, Redemption and the Call of the Wild', Feminist Theology 15 (1997), pp. 55-72.

'Real-izing the Material: Spiritual Feminism and the Resacralization of the Earth', in R. Carter and S. Isenberg (eds.) The Ideal in the World's Religions: Essays on the Person, Family, Society and Environment (St Paul, Minnesota: Paragon House, 1998), pp. 379-398.

'Experiential Religious Education and the Constructivist Paradigm' in M. Littledyke and L. Huxford (eds.), Teaching the Primary Curriculum for Constructive Learning (London: David Fulton Press, 1998), pp. 173- 188.

'Thealogy and the Parthenogenetic Reproduction of Femaleness' in M.A. Hays, W. Porter and D. Tombs (eds.), Religion and Sexuality (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998), pp. 213-225.

'Goddess Religion, Postmodern Jewish Feminism and the Complexity of Alternative Religious Identities' Nova Religio, 1 (1998), pp. 198-214.

'Monotheism in Contemporary Goddess Religion: A Betrayal of Early Thealogical Non-Realism?' in D. Sawyer and D. Collier (eds.), Is There a Future for Feminist Theology? (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999), pp. 139-149.

'" I am who I will be": The Representation of God in Postmodern Jewish Feminist Theology and Contemporary Religious Education', British Journal of Religious Education, 21 (1999), pp. 69-79.

'When God Beheld God: Notes Towards a Jewish Feminist Theology of the Holocaust', Feminist Theology 21 (1999), pp. 53-78.

'When God Beheld God: Notes Towards a Jewish Feminist Theology of the Holocaust' and excerpts from The Female Face of God in Auschwitz reprinted in:

• D. Cohn-Sherbok (ed.) Holocaust Theology: A Reader (Exeter: Exeter University Press, 2002), pp. 245-248.
• J. Martin Soskice (ed.) Theology and Feminism in the Oxford Readings in Feminism series (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).
• S. Frank Parsons (ed.) Challenging Women's Orthodoxies in the Context of Faith Heythrop Studies in Contemporary Philosophy, Religion and Theology, (Aldershot and Burlington USA: Ashgate Press, 2000), pp. 73-88.
• Reprinted and translated for Schlangenbrut, (2004).
• Steven Katz (ed.) Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought (forthcoming 2006)

'False Goddesses: Thealogical Reflections on the Patriarchal Cult of Diana, Princess of Wales' in W. Griffin (ed.), Daughters of the Goddess: Studies of Healing, Identity and Empowerment (Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, 2000) pp. 89-102.

'"Refresh me with apples, for I am faint with love" (Song of Songs 2:5): Jewish Feminism, Mystical Theology and the Sexual Imaginary', in L. Isherwood (ed.), The Good News of the Body Feminist Explorations in the Religious Construction of Female Sexuality (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001) pp. 54-72.

'The Face of God in Every Generation: Jewish Feminist Spirituality and the Legend of the Thirty-Six Hidden Saints', in U. King (ed.), Spirituality and Society in the New Millennium (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2001), pp. 234-246.

‘The Price of (Masculine) Freedom and Becoming: A Feminist Response to Eliezer Berkovits’s Post-Holocaust Free Will Defence of God’s Non-Intervention in Auschwitz’ in Pamela Sue Anderson and Beverley Clack (eds.) Feminist Philosophy of Religion: Critical Perspectives (London and New York: Routledge, 2004), pp. 136-150.

'Holiness in extremis: Jewish Women's Resistance to the Profane in Auschwitz' in Stephen Barton (ed.) Holiness Past and Present (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 2003), pp. 381-401.

‘From Women’s History to Feminist Theology: Gender, Witness and Canonicity in the Religious Narration of the Holocaust’ in Ursula King and Tina Beattie (eds.) Gender, Religion and Diversity: New Perspectives (London and New York: Continuum, 2004), pp. 101-112.

‘Is Patriarchal Theology Still Patriarchal? Reading Theologies of the Holocaust from a Jewish Feminist Perspective’, Journal of Feminist Studies of Religion 18 (2002), pp. 105-13.

‘The Gendering of Religious Emotion’, an 8000 word chapter for J. Corrigan (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Religious Emotion (forthcoming, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).

‘Judaism and Gender’, in Lindsay Jones (ed. in chief) Encyclopedia of Religion, Second Edition (New York: Macmillan, 2005).

‘Thealogy’, in Lindsay Jones (ed.) Encyclopedia of Religion, Second Edition (New York: Macmillan, 2005).

‘Menstruation’, in Lindsay Jones (ed.) Encyclopedia of Religion, Second Edition (New York: Macmillan, 2005).

‘Patriarchy and Matriarchy’, in Lindsay Jones (ed.) Encyclopedia of Religion, Second Edition (New York: Macmillan, 2005).

‘’Witnesses to Presence: Reading Jewish Women’s Holocaust Testimonies as Holy Texts’ in The 12th Yearbook of the European Society of Women in Theological Research, Amsterdam, Peeters, 2006, pp. 103-114.

‘Standing at a Demythologised Sinai?: Reading Jewish Feminist Theology Through the Critical lens of Radical Orthodoxy’ in Rosemary Ruether and Marion Grau (eds.) Interpreting the Postmodern: Responses to ‘Radical Orthodoxy’, (New York and London: T. & T. Clark, 2006), pp. 197-214.

‘Judaism and the Gendering of Violence’, in Linda Hogan (ed.) Religions, Peace and War, Wipf & Stock, forthcoming 2006.

‘Jewish Feminist Theology’, in Mary McClintock Fulkerson and Sheila Briggs (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theology (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 2007).

‘The Mystery of the Slashed Nose and the Empty Box: Towards a Theology of Jewish Art’ Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 1 (2006), pp. 1-19.

‘The Kiss of the Shekhinah: Narratives of Divine and Human Motherhood in the Holocaust’ Temenos 1 (2006), pp. 93-110.

‘Women and the Divine Possibility: Reading Luce Irigaray from a Post-Holocaust Jewish Feminist Perspective’, in Gillian Howie (ed.), Women and the Divine: Transcendence and Feminism, Palgrave, 2007 forthcoming.

 

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