Women & Christian Theologies from the Global South

Course Syllabus

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By Yongnim Kim, A Korean Minjung Feminist Theological Painter ( http://blog.daum.net/etugen/311 )

Thursday 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Iliff Hall 201

Instructor: Dean Boyung Lee, Ph.D.

Office: Dean's Office

Office Hours: By appointment ( blee@iliff.edu )

Course Description

This course is a critical study of the challenges and contributions of feminist theologies from the global south to theological studies in North America, particularly, feminist theologies. Framed in postcoclonial discourses, this course will study works of representative figures in feminist theologies from Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Topics will include the impact of globalization, postcolonial discourse, religion and culture, sexuality and spirituality, and ecological concerns.

Pedagogical Bases

1)  Though the course is not designed as a seminar, its pedagogy is conversational. Thus, it is important that students come to class prepared to discuss the required readings.

2) We hope to become a learning community. People are invited to participate according to their own style, but I encourage spirited interaction.  Participants are encouraged to practice women’s ways of knowing practiced in different communities in the global south such as communal knowledge building through sharing stories and life experiences beyond textbooks.

3) All written work presented for course requirements should draw on your own practical experience as integrated with the course’s theoretical resources.  Thus, papers should reflect a careful reading and assessment of the required readings; that is, from your own perspective.

Required Texts

Kwok, Pui-lan, ed. Hope Abundant: Third World and Indigenous Women’s Theology . Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2010.

Oduyoye, Mercy Amba. Beads & Strands: Reflections of an African Woman on Christianity in Africa . Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2013       Or

. Introducing African Women’s Theology . Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 2002.

Gebara, Ivone. Out of the Depths: Women’s Experience of Evil and Salvation . Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 2002.

Althaus-Reid, Marcella. From Feminist Theology to Indecent Theology: Readings on Poverty, Sexual Identity and God . London: SCM, 2004.

Chung, Hyun Kyung. Struggle to Be the Sun Again: Introducing Asian Women’s Theology . Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1990.

AND Other articles on the Course Canvas

Recommended Texts for the Course:

Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin. The Post-Colonial Studies Reader. New York: Routledge, 1995.

Fabella, Virginia, and Mercy Amba Oduyoye, eds. With Passion and Compassion: Third World Women Doing Theology. Maryknoll: Orbis, 1988.

Fabella, Virginia, and Sun Ai Lee Park, eds. We Dare to Dream: Doing Theology as Asian Women. Maryknoll: Orbis, 1989.

King, Ursula, ed. Feminist Theology from the Third World. Maryknoll: Orbis, 1994.

Kwok, Pui-lan. Introducing Asian Feminist Theology. Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 2000.

Oduyoye, Mercy Amba. Hearing and Knowing: Theological Reflections on Christianity in Africa. Maryknoll: Orbis, 1986.

_____, and Musimbi R. A. Kanyoro, eds. The Will to Arise: Women, Tradition and the Church in Africa. Maryknoll: Orbis, 1992.

Mananzan, Mary John, et al., eds. Women Resisting Violence: Spirituality for Life. Maryknoll: Orbis, 1996.

Tamez, Elsa, ed. Through Her Eyes: Women’s Theology from Latin America. Maryknoll: Orbis, 1989.

 

EXTENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY

POSTCOLONIAL DISCOURSE

Postcolonial Theory

Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin, eds. The Post-Colonial Studies Reader. London: Routledge, 1995.

Bhabha, Homi. The Location of Culture. London: Routledge, 1994.

Chow, Rey. Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies.Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.

Donaldson, Laura E. Decolonizing Feminisms: Race, Gender, and Empire Building. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.

Gandhi, Leela. Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.

Loomba, Ania. Colonialism/Postcolonialism. New York: Routledge, 1998.

McClintock, Anne. Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest. New York: Routledge, 1995.

Narayan, Uma. Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism. New York: Routledge, 1997.

Said, Edward. Culture and Imperialism. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravority. A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.

Trinh, T. Minh-ha. Women, Native, Other: Writing Postcolonialityand Feminism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989.

Williams, Patrick, and Laura Chrisman, eds. Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.

Young, Robert. Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.

 

Postcolonialism, the Bible, and Theology

Dube, Musa W. Postcolonial Feminist Interpretation of the Bible. St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2000.

Hill, Johnny Bernard. Prophetic Rage: A Postcolonial Theology of Liberation. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2013.

Joh, Wonhee Anne. Heart of the Cross: A Postcolonial Christology. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2006.

Keller, Catherine, Michael Nausner, and Mayra Rivera, eds. Postcolonial Theologies: Divinity and Empire. St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2004.

Rivera, Myra. The Touch of Transcendence: A Postcolonial Theology of God. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2007.

Kwok, Pui-lan. Postcolonial Imagination and Feminist Theology. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2005.

Moore, Stephen D., and Fernando F. Segovia, eds. Postcolonial Biblical Criticism: Interdisciplinary Intersections. New York: T. & T. Clark International, 2005.

Sugirtharajah, R. S. Postcolonial Criticism and Biblical Interpretation.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

______, ed. The Postcolonial Biblical Reader. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.

 

FEMINIST THEOLOGIES FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH


Anthologies from Third World Perspective

Fabella, Virginia, and Mercy Amba Oduyoye, eds. With Passion and Compassion: Third World Women Doing Theology. Maryknoll: Orbis, 1988.

King, Ursula, ed. Feminist Theology from the Third World. Maryknoll: Orbis, 1994.

Lewis, Nantawan B., et al. eds. Sisters Struggling in the Spirit: A Women of Color Theological Anthology. Louisville: Women’s Ministries Program, Presbyterian Church USA, 1994.

Mananzan, Mary John et al., eds. Women Resisting Violence: Spirituality for Life. Maryknoll: Orbis, 1996.

Ortega, Ofelia, ed. Women’s Visions: Theological Reflection, Celebration, Action. Geneva: WCC, 1995.

Pobee, John S., ed. Culture, Women and Theology. Delhi: ISPCK, 1994.

_____, and Bärbel von Wartenberg-Potter, eds. New Eyes for Reading: Biblical and Theological Reflections by Women of the Third World. Oak Parks: Meyer Stone Books, 1987.

Ruether, Rosemary Radford, ed. Women Healing Earth. Maryknoll: Orbis, 1996.

Russell, Letty M. et al. eds. Inheriting Our Mothers’ Gardens: Feminist Theology in Third World Perspective. Louisville: Westminster, 1988.

African

Amoah, Elizabeth, ed. Where God Reigns: Reflections on Women in God’s World. Accra: Circle of Concerned Women Theologians, 1997.

Dube, Musa W. Postcolonial Feminist Interpretation of the Bible. St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2000.

_____, ed. Other Ways of Reading: African Women and the Bible. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2001.

Kanyoro, Musimbi R., and Nyambura J. Njoroge, eds. Groaning in Faith: African Women in the Household of God. Nairobi: Acton Publishers, 1996.

Njoroge, Nyambura J., and Musa W. Dube, eds. Talitha Cum! Theologies of African Women. Pietermaritzburg: Cluster Publications, 2001.

Oduyoye, Mercy Amba. Daughters of Anowa: African Women and Patriarchy. Maryknoll: Orbis, 1995.

_____.Hearing and Knowing: Theological Reflections on Christianity in Africa. Maryknoll: Orbis, 1986.

_____.Introducing African Women’s Theology. Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 2001.

_____, ed. Transforming Power: Women in the Household of God. Accra: Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians, 1997.

_____, and Musimbi R. A. Kanyoro, eds. The Will to Arise: Women, Tradition, and the Church in Africa. Maryknoll: Orbis, 1992.

Wamue, Grace, and Mary Getui, eds. Violence against Women: Reflections by Kenyan Women Theologians. Nairobi: Acton Publishers, 1996.

Asian

Brazal, Agnes M., and Andrea Lizares Si, eds. Body and Sexuality: Theological-Pastoral Perspectives of Women in Asia. Quezon City, Philippines: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2007.

Chung, Hyun Kyung. Struggle to Be the Sun Again: Introducing Asian Women’s Theology. Maryknoll: Orbis, 1990.

Chung, Meehyun, ed. Breaking Silence: Theology from Asian Women. Delhi: Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (ISPCK), 2006.

Fabella, Virginia. Beyond Bonding: A Third World Women’s Theological Journey. Manila: EATWOT, 1993.

_____, and Sun Ai Lee Park, eds. We Dare to Dream: Doing Theology as Asian Women. Maryknoll: Orbis, 1989.

Gnanadason, Aruna. Listen to the Women! Listen to the Earth!(Geneva: World Council of Churches, 2005.

_____, Musimbi Kanyoro, and Lucia Ann McSpadden, eds. Women, Violence, and Non-Violent Change. Geneva: WCC, 1996.

In God’s Image. Quarterly journal published by AWRC, Malaysia.

Katoppo, Marianne. Compassionate and Free: An Asian Women’sTheology. Geneva: WCC, 1979.

Kinukawa, Hisako. Women and Jesus in Mark: A Japanese Feminist Perspective. Maryknoll: Orbis, 1994.

_____.Introducing Asian Feminist Theology. Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 2000.

Mananzan, Mary John, ed. Women, Religion, and Spirituality in Asia. Manila: St. Scholastica’s College, 2004.

_____, ed. Essays on Women. Rev. ed. Manila: St. Scholastica’s College, 1991.

Orevillo-Montenegro, Muriel. The Jesus of Asian Women. Maryknoll: Orbis, 2006.

Latin American

Aquino, Maria Pilar. Our Cry for Life: Feminist Theology from Latin America. Maryknoll: Orbis, 1993.

Gebara, Ivone. Longing for Running Water: Ecofeminism and Liberation. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1999.

_____.Out of the Depths: Women’s Experience of Evil and Salvation. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2002.

_____, and María Clara Bingemer. Mary: Mother of God, Mother of the Poor. Maryknoll: Orbis, 1987.

Althaus-Reid, Marcella. Indecent Theology: Theological Perversions in Sex, Gender and Politics. London: Routledge, 2000.

_____.The Queer God. London: Routledge, 2003.

Tamez, Elsa. Against Machismo. New York: Meyer Stone Books, 1987.

_____.The Amnesty of Grace: Justification by Faith from a Latin American Perspective. Nashville: Abingdon, 1993.

_____.The Scandalous Message of James: Faith without Works is Dead. New York: Crossroad, 1990.

_____, ed. Through Her Eyes: Women’s Theology from Latin America. Maryknoll: Orbis, 1989.

MINORITIES IN THE USA

Asian North American

Brock, Rita Nakashima. Journeys by Heart: A Christology of Erotic Power. New York: Crossroad, 1988.

_____, and Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite. Casting Stones: Prostitution and Liberation in Asia and the United States. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1996.

_____, Jung Ha Kim, Kwok Pui-lan, and Seung Ai Yang, eds. Off the Menu: Asian and Asian North American Women’s Religion and Theology. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2007.

Joh, Wonhee Anne. Heart of the Cross: A Postcolonial Christology. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2006.

Kim, Ai Ra. Women Struggling for a New Life: The Role of Religion in the Cultural Passage from Korea to America. New York: State University of New York Press, 1996.

Kim, Grace Ji-Sun. The Holy Spirit, Chi, and the Other: A Model of Global and Intercultural Pneumatology. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Kim, Jung Ha. Bridge-Makers and Cross-Bearers: Korean American Women and the Church. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1997.

Kwok, Pui-lan, ed. “Asian and Asian American Women’s Voices,” Journal of Asian and Asian American Theology2:1 (1997), whole issue.

Ng, Greer Anne Wenh-In, ed. Generations Trying to Live Together. Toronto: United Church of Canada, 1995.

Pak, Su Yon, et al. Singing the Lord’s Song in a New Land: Korean American Practices of Faith. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2005.

 

Mujerista/Latina Theology(Hispanic and Latina theology in the USA)

Aquino, Maria Pilar, Daisy L. Machado, and Jeanette Rodriguez, eds. A Reader in Latina Feminist Theology: Religion and Justice. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002.

Gonzalez, Michelle A. Afro-Cuban Theology: Religion, Race, Culture and Identity. Gainsville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2006.

_____.Created in God’s Image: An Introduction to Feminist Theological Anthropology. Maryknoll: Orbis, 2007.

Isasi-Diaz, Ada Maria. En La Lucha (In the Struggle): A Hispanic Women’s Liberation Theology. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993.

_____.Mujerista Theology: A Theology for the Twenty-First Century. Maryknoll: Orbis, 1996.

_____, and Yolanda Tarango. Hispanic Women: Prophetic Voice in the Church. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1988.

 

Womanist Theology(African American women’s theology)

Baker-Fletcher, Karen. Dancing with God: The Trinity from a Womanist Perspective. St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2006.

Cannon, Katie Geneva. Katie’s Canon: Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community. New York: Continuum, 1995.

_____, Emilie M. Townes, and Angela D. Sims, eds. Womanist Theological Ethics: A Reader. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2011.

Coleman, Monica A, ed. Ain’t I a Womanist Too? Third Wave Womanist Religious Thought. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2013.

Copeland, M. Shawn. Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being. Minneapolis: Fortress, forthcoming in 2008.

Douglas, Kelly Brown. The Black Christ. Maryknoll: Orbis, 1994.

_____.Sexuality and the Black Church. Maryknoll: Orbis, 1999.

Floyd-Thomas, Stacey, ed. Deeper Shades of Purple: Womanism in Religion and Society. New York: New York University Press, 2006.

Gilkes, Cheryl Townsend. If It Wasn’t for the Women. . .”: Black Women’s Experience and Womanist Culture in Church and Society. Maryknoll: Orbis, 2001.

Grant, Jacquelyn. White Women’s Christ and Black Women’s Jesus. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1989.

Mitchem, Stephanie. Introducing Womanist Theology. Maryknoll: Orbis, 2002.

Townes, Emilie M. Womanist Ethics and the Cultural Production of Evil. New York: Palgrave, 2006.

Williams, Delores S. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk. Maryknoll: Orbis, 1993.

 

Indigenous Peoples

Kidwell, Clara Sue, Homer Noley, and George E. “Tink” Tinker. A Native American Theology. Maryknoll: Orbis, 2001.

Pattel-Gray, Anne. The Great White Flood:Racism in Australia, Critically Appraised from an Aboriginal Historio-Theological Viewpoint. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1998.

Smith, Andrea. Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide. Boston: South End Press, 2005.

Weaver, Jace, ed. Native American Religious Identity: Unforgotten Gods. Maryknoll: Orbis, 1998.

 

  1. Ritual Leadership and Punctual Attendance (10%):

Ritual: We will begin each class session promptly with a morning ritual.  Studying written texts is a very new thing to most women from the Global South, and ritual was one of the important ways of learning and community building, and knowledge/wisdom transmission for them.  We will practice this as a community of learners and teachers in our class. I encourage you to lead at least one ritual this quarter based on your own primary community’s practices, hopefully in conversation with the day’s reading/theme.  Sign-up sheet will be available on the class Canvas. 

Punctual attendance: More than two absences will result in the failing of the class. If you have extenuating circumstances that keep you from attending the class, please inform me immediately.

Please sign-up for the ritual leadership here!

  1. Weekly Reading Post/Response on Canvas & Class Discussion Participation (30%):

This course’s pedagogy is conversational. Thus, it is important that students come to class prepared to discuss the required readings. To help this, each student is asked to provide leadership by posting at least ONE reading post beginning the third week and continuing until the ninth week of the class on the course Canvas. 

- Each week, there will be 2 posters. (about 300-400 words). 

- Two students who signed up for the week will post their reading posts by midnight on Monday before the Thursday class (20%) and other students will respond to the posts by Wednesday noon (10%). 

- The Reading posts include 1) a short summary of the core of the readings; 2) What spoke to her/him/them the most/least? Why?; 3) Possible implications of the readings for his/her/their own theological/ministry/cultural contexts. 

 

Remember! – this is not just a summary of the readings, but your engagement with what you have read in your own contexts.

 

Sign-up is available here.

 

  1. An Annotated Bibliography (2 or 3 sentences on each entry) on “Postcolonial Discourse and Feminist Theology from the Global South” with at least 15 entries, including books, articles, and websites, etc. The aim is to expose students to the materials available on the subject. Due by midnight on September 27 to be uploaded to the Discussion page on Canvas (10%). You can find some of the foundational literature from the Recommended Texts and an Extensive Bibliography I provided.

 

  1. A Mid-Term Take-Home Examination (open book). Exam questions will be posted on the course site on Canvas on October 4, and the exam paper is due by midnight on October 18 to be uploaded to the Assignment page on Canvas (20%).

 

  1. A Final Paper(30%):

Please choose one the following options according to your learning mode or needs:

- Proposal Due by midnight on October 11 with the topic, a one-paragraph description, and a selected bibliography in the Canvas Assignment page;

- Paper Due by midnight on November 15 in the Canvas Assignment page

 

Option 1. A Research Paper, 10-12 pages (double-spaced); the topic to be negotiated with the professor. Integrating course materials, lectures and discussion, write a research paper related to Women and Christian Theologies from the Global South.

 

Option 2. A Teaching Plan (10-12 pages)

Based on your learning of the quarter through readings, conversations and research, create a teaching plan for a specific gender, age, cultural group. 

Guidelines: I will pay attention to the following categories:

1.Who is your audience – their age, racial/ethnic, cultural, educational, social, economic, and psychological backgrounds. 

2. After identifying your audience, please present the what and why of your curriculum: "Because of the needs of my audience and my teaching contexts (why), I believe my topic (what) is very important for them..." You can include your Purposes and hoped for learning outcomes here.

3. Show how you will cover your subject and in what ways: sequence, methods, etc. Include the outline of the whole curriculum you are developing, that is, if your curriculum has more than one lesson — the title and purpose of each lessons. I will pay attention to how each lesson contributes to the overarching theme of your curriculum, and how each lesson works toward your hoped for learning outcomes.

4. Please provide a very detailed description of one particular lesson/part of your curriculum:

- Subjects and purposes/ hoped for learning outcomes of that lesson and why and how it is important to meet your main purposes.

- Materials needed;

- Planned Activities — lecture, activities, etc. and your rationale for them, how long for each activity…

  5. Your evaluation plan

Beyond asking your participants several genetic questions, think about how you can measure the quality of your curriculum.  How can you know whether your purposes have been achieved?

 

Option 3. Design a Blog or Webpage (includes webtoons) for Educational Resources to address issues raised by scholars and course materials we studied.  You can create the site whatever way you want, but it should include/reflect your engagements with course materials and further researches.

 

Option 4.Propose other ideas to me!

Course Policies

  1. Absence:Two (2) absences will result in the failing of the course.
  2. Late Papers: The grade will be reduced for papers turned in late. Late papers will not get A or A-.  In the event of extenuating circumstances please contact the instructor prior to their due date.
  3. ESOL (English as Second or Other Language) Students: Upon request by the ESOL student, Prof. Lee will extend the deadline for papers one week to allow time for editing.

JDP students, if you need an accommodation, please see the DU Disability Services Program page at (https://www.du.edu/studentlife/disability-services/faculty-staff/index.html)

 

Iliff's Academic Policies

Degree Learning Goals: Please take some time to look over the Professional Degree Learning Goals (MDiv, MASC, MAPSC) and the Academic Degree Learning Goals (MTS, MA).

Incompletes:  If incompletes are allowed in this course, see the Master's Student Handbook for Policies and Procedures.

Pass/Fail:  Masters students wishing to take the class pass/fail should discuss this with the instructor by the second class session.

Credit Hours:  For each graduate credit awarded by a course at the Iliff School of Theology, students should be spending approximately one hour (50 minutes) in contact with the instructor and three hours (150 minutes) on course work outside of class per week over the equivalent of a 10-week quarter. This applies to residential, intensive, online and hybrid classes alike. For more details see Iliff's Credit Hour Policy (Links to an external site.)

Academic Integrity and Community Covenant:  All students are expected to abide by Iliff’s statement on Academic Integrity, as published in the Masters Student Handbook, or the Joint PhD Statement on Academic Honesty, as published in the Joint PhD Student Handbook, as appropriate.  All participants in this class are expected to be familiar with Iliff’s Community Covenant.

Core ValuesAs a community, Iliff strives to live by this set of Core Values.

Accommodations:  Iliff engages in a collaborative effort with students with disabilities to reasonably accommodate student needs.   Students are encouraged to contact their assigned advisor to initiate the process of requesting accommodations.  The advising center can be contacted at advising@iliff.edu or by phone at 303-765-1146. 

Writing Lab:  Grammar and organization are important for all written assignments.  Additional help is available from the Iliff Writing Lab, which is available for students of any level who need help beginning an assignment, organizing thoughts, or reviewing a final draft. 

Inclusive Language:  It is expected that all course participants will use inclusive language in speaking and writing, and will use terms that do not create barriers to classroom community. 

HOPED FOR LEARNING OUTCOMES

Course Policies

  1. Absence:Two (2) absences will result in the failing of the course.
  2. Late Papers: The grade will be reduced for papers turned in late. Late papers will not get A or A-.  In the event of extenuating circumstances please contact the instructor prior to their due date.
  3. ESOL (English as Second or Other Language) Students: Upon request by the ESOL student, Prof. Lee will extend the deadline for papers one week to allow time for editing.

JDP students, if you need an accommodation, please see the DU Disability Services Program page at (https://www.du.edu/studentlife/disability-services/faculty-staff/index.html)

 

Iliff's Academic Policies

Degree Learning Goals: Please take some time to look over the Professional Degree Learning Goals (MDiv, MASC, MAPSC) and the Academic Degree Learning Goals (MTS, MA).

Incompletes:  If incompletes are allowed in this course, see the Master's Student Handbook for Policies and Procedures.

Pass/Fail:  Masters students wishing to take the class pass/fail should discuss this with the instructor by the second class session.

Credit Hours:  For each graduate credit awarded by a course at the Iliff School of Theology, students should be spending approximately one hour (50 minutes) in contact with the instructor and three hours (150 minutes) on course work outside of class per week over the equivalent of a 10-week quarter. This applies to residential, intensive, online and hybrid classes alike. For more details see Iliff's Credit Hour Policy (Links to an external site.)

Academic Integrity and Community Covenant:  All students are expected to abide by Iliff’s statement on Academic Integrity, as published in the Masters Student Handbook, or the Joint PhD Statement on Academic Honesty, as published in the Joint PhD Student Handbook, as appropriate.  All participants in this class are expected to be familiar with Iliff’s Community Covenant.

Core ValuesAs a community, Iliff strives to live by this set of Core Values.

Accommodations:  Iliff engages in a collaborative effort with students with disabilities to reasonably accommodate student needs.   Students are encouraged to contact their assigned advisor to initiate the process of requesting accommodations.  The advising center can be contacted at advising@iliff.edu or by phone at 303-765-1146. 

Writing Lab:  Grammar and organization are important for all written assignments.  Additional help is available from the Iliff Writing Lab, which is available for students of any level who need help beginning an assignment, organizing thoughts, or reviewing a final draft. 

Inclusive Language:  It is expected that all course participants will use inclusive language in speaking and writing, and will use terms that do not create barriers to classroom community. 

*Before the 1st Class (September 13), Please

1) Read, Chs. 1, 2, 3, & 7 of Hope Abundant;

2) Do read the syllabus and sign-up for the following two things:

  • We will begin each class session promptly with a morning ritual.  Studying written texts is a very new thing to most women from the Global South, and ritual was one of the important ways of learning and community building, and knowledge/wisdom transmission for them.  We will practice this as a community of learners and teachers in our class. I encourage you to lead at least one ritual this quarter based on your own primary community’s practices, hopefully in conversation with the day’s reading/theme.  You are also welcome to lead a morning ritual as a pair or group.  Please add your name(s) next to the date By clicking the Edit Button.

     

    Date Name (s)
    September 13 Dean Lee
    September 20 Jen Simon
    September 27 E. Darlene Smith
    October 4 Melanie Karnopp, Taylor Muma
    October 11 Becky David Hensley
    October 18 emily nagle
    October 25 Alanna Hunter-Crump, Jordan Licari
    November 1 DAVID AKOTO, Amanda Heeren
    November 8 Cristine de la Luna, Reed Tanner
    November 15 Lila Docken Bauman
  • Complete assigned readings and weekly postings on the Discussion page on the Canvas course site. Each student is responsible for posting at least ONE reading post beginning the third week and continuing until the ninth week of the class (30%). 

    - Each week, there will be 2 posters. (about 300-400 words). 

    - Two students who signed up for the week will post their reading posts by midnight on Monday before the Thursday class and other students will respond to the posts by Wednesday noon. 

    - The Reading posts include 1) a short summary of the core of the readings; 2) What spoke to her/him/them the most/least? Why?; 3) Possible implications of the readings for his/her/their own theological/ministry/cultural contexts. 

    Remember! – this is not just a summary of the readings, but your engagement with what you have read in your own contexts.

     

    Please Sign-Up by adding your name next to the date - Click the Edit button.

    DATE POSTER 1 POSTER 2
    September 27 E. Darlene Smith Jen Simon
    October 4 Alanna Hunter-Crump DAVID AKOTO
    October 11 Cristine de la Luna
    October 18 Lila Docken Bauman Becky David Hensley
    October 25 Taylor Muma Reed Tanner
    November 1 Melanie Karnopp Amanda Heeren
    November 8 Jordan Licari Emily nagle
    November 15 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

     

DateDayDetails
Sep 14, 2018FriWeek 1 INTRODUCTION & FRAMING OUT STUDIESdue by 05:59AM
Sep 21, 2018FriWEEK 2 September 20 Postcolonial Discourse and Feminist Theologies from the Global South due by 05:59AM
Sep 28, 2018FriWEEK 3. September 27   AFRICAN FEMINIST THEOLOGIES I : Mercy Amba Oduyoye and African Feminist Theological Contextsdue by 05:58AM
Sep 28, 2018FriAnnotated Bibliographydue by 05:59AM
Oct 05, 2018FriWEEK 4 October 4  AFRICAN FEMINIST THEOLOGIES III: EMERGING ISSUES IN AFRICAN FEMINIST THEOLOGIES due by 05:59AM
Oct 12, 2018FriWEEK 5 October 11 LATIN AMERICAN FEMINIST THEOLOGIES I: Elsa Tamez and Latin American Contextsdue by 05:58AM
Oct 12, 2018FriFinal Paper Proposaldue by 05:59AM
Oct 19, 2018FriWEEK 6 October 18 LATIN AMERICAN FEMINIST THEOLOGIES II: Ivone Gebara due by 05:58AM
Oct 19, 2018FriMid-Term Take Home Examdue by 05:59AM
Oct 26, 2018FriWEEK 7 October 25. LATIN AMERICAN FEMINIST THEOLOGIES III: Marcella Althaus-Reiddue by 05:59AM
Nov 02, 2018FriWEEK 8 November 1. ASIAN FEMINIST THEOLOGIES I: Chung Hyun Kyungdue by 05:59AM
Nov 09, 2018FriWEEK 9 November 8 IV. ASIAN FEMINIST THEOLOGIES IIdue by 06:59AM
Nov 16, 2018FriWEEK 10 November 15   CONCLUSION AND NORTH AMERICAN FEMINIST AND WOMANIST RESPONSES due by 06:58AM
Nov 19, 2018MonFinal Paperdue by 04:00PM