TODAY! JFSR Panel: Sexual Violence and Sacred Texts SBL Annual Meeting (P22-227)
Join us for the following JFSR panel (P22-227) today, November 22nd, from 1:00 to 3:30pm, in Room 33 A (Upper level) – San Diego Convention Center (CC).
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza will be presiding over the panel and the theme will be “Sexual Violence and Sacred Texts.”
We look forward to seeing you there!
For more information, please see the following:
11/22/2014
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room 33 A (Upper level) – San Diego Convention Center (CC)
Theme: Sexual Violence and Sacred Texts
Violence against wo/men is inscribed in the Scriptures of all 3 monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Feminist scholars in religion are well versed in analyzing and interpreting sacred texts in critical, historical, literary, and cultural terms but we have less developed methods of conscientization or consciousness-raising for enabling wo/men who have experienced sexual abuse to work through such sacred texts of violence in bible, TaNaKh and Qu’ran. The panel will seek to engender conversation across religious interpretive boundaries and to identify methods of interpretation that could engender a process of healing from sexual violence and abuse perpetrated in and through Sacred Scriptures.
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Harvard University, Presiding (10 min)
Amy Kalmanofsky, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Panelist (15 min)
Fulata L. Moyo, World Council of Churches and Harvard Divinity School, Panelist (15 min)
Celene Ayat Lizzio, Hebrew College and Andover Newton Theological School, Panelist (15 min)
Shelly Matthews, Brite Divinity School (TCU), Panelist (15 min)
Sarra L. Lev, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Panelist (15 min)
Ayesha Chaudhry, University of British Columbia, Panelist (15 min)
Break (5 min)
Discussion (45 min)