Volume 26 Number 1, 2010

Special Introduction from the Religion and Politics Editor

Elizabeth Pritchard

The Ethics of Breast-Feeding: A Feminist Theological Exploration

Rachel Muers

The Ferocious and the Erotic: “Beautiful” Medusa and the Neolithic Bird and Snake

Miriam Robbins Dexter

Religious Belonging and the Multiple

Michelle Voss Roberts

Calling the Keeners: The Image of the Wailing Woman As Symbol of Survival in a Traumatized World

L. Juliana M. Claassens

From Bush to Obama: Rethinking Sex and Religion in the United States’ Initiative to Combat Human Trafficking

Yvonne C. Zimmerman

Foreward

Susan McCaslin

Demeter Opens the Mysteries

Susan McCaslin

Persephone in Hades

Susan McCaslin

Persephone Find Ruth on the Threshing Floor

Susan McCaslin

Demeter Speaks Truth to the Powers

Susan McCaslin

Demeter Laughs

Susan McCaslin

Persephone Hears a Layered Singing

Susan McCaslin

Demeter Works on Non-attachment

Susan McCaslin

A Nude Demeter Descending a Stairway

Susan McCaslin

Demeter’s Drum

Susan McCaslin

Tkhine in Adar II (February, Leap Year)

Lenore Weiss

Tkhine in Iyar (May)

Lenore Weiss

Tkhine in Tammuz (July)

Lenore Weiss

Communion of Saints

Julie Stoner

Holy Thursday

Julie Stoner

Commemoration

Lisa Dordal

Negotiating Feminist and Gender Studies 

Larisa Reznik, Kathleen Roberts Skerrett, Elizabeth M. Bucar, Deborah Whitehead, Molly Farneth, Irene Oh

Confusion, Elision, and Erasure: Feminism, Religion, and Chinese Confucian Traditions

Vivian-Lee Nyitray

Notes on Contributors