Studies in Feminist Liturgy
Mission Statement
This group was founded in 1988 and held its first meeting in 1989. The group was formed to address the impact of the feminist movement on liturgy, on liturgical studies, and especially the implications for teaching in a theological school context. The focus on teaching includes not only classroom teaching and related pedagogical issues, but also teaching in the broader cultural context, in church and synagogue, and in the wider society.
Convener
Susan Roll
Saint Paul University
223 Main Street
Ottawa, Ontario
K1S 1C4 Canada
Office: 613-236-1393 ext. 2232
2008 Academy Meeting Agenda
The research and discussion theme of the Feminist Studies in Liturgy seminar group will be "Metaphors, Dying and Rising: how to claim, and how to create, living metaphors." Presentations will include:
1. Sylvia Sweeney, "An ecofeminist hermeneutic of death." There are many different kinds of end of life experiences we have clumped together under the heading of death, and as a result of different vantage points in relation to the death experience death means different things to men and women. The concept of death is itself a kind of metaphor that is not nearly as hegemonically interpreted as our Western Christian religious tradition might sometimes suggest.
2. Susan Roll, "Metaphors in Christian worship: the quick and the dead." Several categories of nature metaphors common to Christian worship language and imagery have long been superceded by scientific knowledge. At best they reflect a prescientific level of perception that patronizes educated Christians, at worst they function to legitimize oppressive cultural, social, even economic relations. Deconstructing them is easy, even fun: but how shall newer, creative, authentic, living metaphors be sought out and integrated into worship?
Number of participants: 18-20
Papers
The following paper is available online in PDF format.
"A Time to Live: Creating Rituals that Speak to Us and for Us in the Winter-time of Life," Linda Vogel, 2003.
Previous Seminar Reports
See seminar reports from annual meetings dating back to 2002:
2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002