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Tending to Stories in Feminist Theologies: Interdisciplinary Renderings of Faith, Hope and Love book cover

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Tending to Stories in Feminist Theologies Interdisciplinary Renderings of Faith, Hope and Love

Edited By Helena Kadmos, Katharine Massam Copyright 2026
224 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Tending to Stories in Feminist Theologies is interested in the place of story-tellers in communities of hope. Where some theologies wrestle for clarity of definition, feminist and other theologies of liberation begin from experience and tend towards story as a vehicle for speaking of the Divine. Ambiguity and precision both find their place. This collection embraces different materials to... Read more

Contents

List Figures

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Part 1: Stories of Process                                                                  

1. Origins: An Introduction

Helena Kadmos and Katharine Massam                                           

Part 2: Stories of Ecologies 

2. Hidden in Plain Sight: Story as Methodology

Jennifer Rumbel 

3. Being among the Storied Life of Trees

Libby Byrne

4. Moved and Moving: The Possibilities of Storying and Art-making for Worlds in Flux

Rebekah Pryor

Part 3: Stories of Women and Jesus

5. Divine Sisterhood

Ann-Marie Blanchard

6. Veronica in the Roman Catholic Stations of the Cross

Veronica Webb

7. A Woman, her Bleeding and Lemon-scented Theology through a Liberative Disability Lens

Wendy Elson

Part 4: Stories of the Past Remembered

8. Left Alone: Examining a Storied Interpretation of Acts 16:16–19

Sarah Agnew

9. Mary of Egypt: A Theological Queering

Sarah Glover

10. When Stories Collide: A Relationship between Women Centuries Apart

Catherine Lambert

11. Good Grace: Stories of Emotion and Women’s Experience in the Methodist Mission to Papua

Kerrie Handasyde

Part 5: Stories of Fractures and Healing 

12. Self-Realisation and Participation in the Divine: A Surmountable Tension?

 Jaimee van Gemerden

13. Listening as Sacrament: An Act of Solidarity with the Spirit

Jacinta Bright   

14. Writing a Liturgy to Mark the Termination of Pregnancy: Reflections on Process and Vulnerability

Rebecca Lindsay with Ellie Elia

15. Relational Autonomy Through Intergenerational Storytelling

Helena Kadmos

Part 6: Stories of Truth-telling

16. Tending and Befriending: Reframing Solidarity as Relational Praxis

Cathryn McKinney

17. ‘Mirth is Next to Grace’: Humour, Danger and the Stories that Liberate

Katharine Massam

18. Creating Space to Tell us True. 

Naomi Wolfe

Index

Biography

Helena Kadmos is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Notre Dame Australia, on the Fremantle campus on Wadjuk Country, and a writer of short fiction and non-fiction.

Katharine Massam is Professor of History and Chair of the Academic Board at the University of Divinity, based at St Paschal’s campus on Wurundjeri-Woi-wurrung Country in Melbourne, Australia.

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