Volume 3 Number 1, 1987

Editors’ Introduction

Judith Plaskow, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza

Structure and Patriarchal Functions in the Biblical Betrothal Type-Scene: Some Preliminary Notes

Esther Fuchs

Treading the Narrative Way Between Myth and Madness: Maxine Hong Kingston and Contemporary Women’s Autobiography

Mary Zeiss Stange

Heterosexist Theology: Being Above It All

Carter Heyward

Notes on Composing New Blessings: Toward a Feminist-Jewish Reconstruction of Prayer

Marcia Falk

Reflections on the Initiation of an American Woman Scholar into the Symbols and Rituals of the Ancient Goddesses

Carol P. Christ

“Plenty Confidence in Myself”: The Initiation of a White Woman Scholar into Haitian Vodou

Karen McCarthy Brown

“I will never forget to visualize that Vajrayogin? is my body and mind.”

Rita M. Gross

A Vision of Feminist Religious Scholarship: Roundtable Lead-In

Patricia Shechter

Roundtable Response to: A Vision of Feminist Religious Scholarship

Beverly Wildung Harrison

Roundtable Response to: A Vision of Feminist Religious Scholarship

Kwok Pui-lan

Roundtable Response to: A Vision of Feminist Religious Scholarship

Margaret R. Miles

Roundtable Response to: A Vision of Feminist Religious Scholarship

Renita J. Weems

Roundtable Response to: A Vision of Feminist Religious Scholarship

Marjorie Suchocki

smoking the truth

Allene M. Parker

Women Exchaning Dreams

Kathleen Norris

The New York Times Ad: A Case Study in Religious Feminism

Mary E. Hunt, Frances Kissling