Volume 30 Number 2, 2014

Editors’ Introduction

Judith Plaskow, Traci West

The “Domestication” of Saint Thecla: Characterization of Thecla in the Life and Miracles of Saint Thecla

Susan E. Hylen

Sex Otherwise: Intersex, Christology, and the Maleness of Jesus

Susannah Cornwall

Do You Want to Be Well? The Gospel Play, Womanist Theology, and Tyler Perry’s Artistic Project

Robert J. Patterson

Introduction: Comparative Feminist Studies of Sacred Texts/Scriptures

Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza

Interpreting Buddhist Representations of Motherhood and Mothering

Karen Derris

“Passing Strange”—Reading Transgender across Genre: Rabbinic Midrash and Feminist Hermeneutics on Esther

Rachel Adelman

Devotional Subjectivity and the Fiction of Femaleness: Feminist Hermeneutics and the Articulation of Difference

Karen Pechilis

Feminist Interpretation of the Qur’an in a Comparative Feminist Setting

Aysha A. Hidayatullah

Mary Instructs Leonardo da Vinci as He Begins Painting The Annunciation

Jennifer Bullis

Unimagining the Madonna

Andrea Watson

Kingdom of the Unrepentant Angel

Andrea Watson

At a Revival Tent, Sojourner Truth Envisions a New Jerusalem

Dean Kostos

Hymn to Her

Beth Enson

Life Stories, & Other Possible Endings

Sawnie Morris

Do We Still Need the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion?

Carol P. Christ

A Symphony of Sounds: Thirty Years of Feminist Voices

Christy Cobb

Location, Direction, and the View from a Former Submissions Editor’s Chair

Kathleen Gallagher Elkins

“I Will Write. But I Will Not Lie. Nor Will I Write Alone.”

Hannah Hofheinz

JFSR Grounds the Field

Mary E. Hunt

Making a Material Difference

Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre

A Voice from Troubled Japan

Noriko Kawahashi

At Thirty I Took My Stand

Kwok Pui-lan

Difficult Intersections and Messy Coalitions (but in a Good Way)

Joseph A. Marchal

Multiplicity and Diversity: Accounting for Women’s Religious Lives

Sylvia Marcos

Celebration and Vision: JFSR as Collaborative Feminist Space

Kelsi Morrison-Atkins

Accessing the Revolution

Kate Ott

Here’s to JFSR’s Vibrant and Stridently Feminist Future!

Susanne Scholz

JFSR: A Journey for the Production of Feminist Space

Wong Wai Ching Angela

Notes on Contributors