Women, Ritual, and Power: Placing Female Imagery of God in Christian Worship
Many Christians do not know the Bible contains female images of God because they have never heard nor seen them in church. In Women, Ritual, and Power, Elizabeth Ursic gives the reader insight into four Christian communities that worship God with female imagery, both as a worship focus and a community identity. These Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, and Catholic congregations operate within their established church denominations and are led by either ordained Protestant ministers or vowed Catholic sisters. Because expressing God-as-She can expose strident claims for maintaining God-as-He, this book shows not only how patriarchy continues to operate in churches today, but also how it is being successfully challenged through liturgy.
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Women, Ritual, and Power: Placing Female Imagery of God in Christian Worship
Many Christians do not know the Bible contains female images of God because they have never heard nor seen them in church. In Women, Ritual, and Power, Elizabeth Ursic gives the reader insight into four Christian communities that worship God with female imagery, both as a worship focus and a community identity. These Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, and Catholic congregations operate within their established church denominations and are led by either ordained Protestant ministers or vowed Catholic sisters. Because expressing God-as-She can expose strident claims for maintaining God-as-He, this book shows not only how patriarchy continues to operate in churches today, but also how it is being successfully challenged through liturgy.
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Women, Ritual, and Power: Placing Female Imagery of God in Christian Worship

Women, Ritual, and Power: Placing Female Imagery of God in Christian Worship

by Elizabeth Ursic
Women, Ritual, and Power: Placing Female Imagery of God in Christian Worship

Women, Ritual, and Power: Placing Female Imagery of God in Christian Worship

by Elizabeth Ursic

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Overview

Many Christians do not know the Bible contains female images of God because they have never heard nor seen them in church. In Women, Ritual, and Power, Elizabeth Ursic gives the reader insight into four Christian communities that worship God with female imagery, both as a worship focus and a community identity. These Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, and Catholic congregations operate within their established church denominations and are led by either ordained Protestant ministers or vowed Catholic sisters. Because expressing God-as-She can expose strident claims for maintaining God-as-He, this book shows not only how patriarchy continues to operate in churches today, but also how it is being successfully challenged through liturgy.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781438452869
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 09/30/2014
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 256
File size: 682 KB

About the Author

Elizabeth Ursic is Professor of Religious Studies at Mesa Community College.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Strategic Emplacement

1. The Resource of Leadership: Wisdom’s Feast and United Methodism

2. The Resource of Personal Prayer Experience: Daughters of Wisdom Catholic Sisters

3. The Resource of Community: Motherhood of God and the Church of Scotland

4. The Resource of Evangelization: Lutheran herchurch

Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index
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