Pregnancy and Birth : Critical Theological Conceptions

O'Donnell, Karen (EDT)/ Williams, Claire (EDT)

SCM Press（2024/08発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 272 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780334065388
• DDC分類 201.7621982

Full Description

Pregnancy is a period of time that institutes great change in the lives of those who are pregnant. Regardless of whether a pregnancy concludes with the birth of a live child or not, there are experiences that are common for many people who are pregnant. Yet as a site of theological reflection pregnancy is underrepresented.

This landmark book seeks to begin the conversation within theology about pregnancy, the positive and negative experiences, and the potential for pregnancy to be understood theologically. Chapters consider a number of avenues in this exploration, from early pregnancy loss to trauma in labour, from adoption to the end of reproductive years at the onset of menopause. Throughout, this book seeks to understand the resources that theology brings to the experiences of pregnancy as well as the situations of oppression and underrepresentation that currently exist. Allowing for intersections of race, parenting, childlessness, and disability, this book approaches pregnancy from different theological perspectives in order to complexify the theological response and engagement as well as produce constructive resources for both the academy and the church.

Contributors include Chine McDonald, Julie Gittoes, Margaret Kamitsuka and Rachel Muers.

Contents

Acknowledgements
Contributors
Wombs of our Own

Conception by Karen O'Donnell and Claire Williams

Concept Conception: It All Begins Somewhere by Ruth Wells

Theological Pregnancies
The Body is (Not Quite) One by Rachel Muers
My Body in Parts by Ruth Wells
Pregnancies Human and Divine: The Flesh of Mary and the Body of Christ by Karen O'Donnell
This is my Body by Ruth Wells
Reading 1 Timothy 2:15 Through the Lens of Black Pregnancy and WomanistCare by Victoria Omotoso
Reflections on the 'Travail' of the Earth in Romans 8, and Humans' role in Companioning this Labour by Christopher Southgate
Kenotic Invitation by Ruth Wells
'Groaning in Labour...Awaiting Adoption': Pregnancy to Adoption as a Paradigm for Understanding God's Action in the World by Helen Collins
Beyond Borderland by Ruth Wells
'Her Bleeding Stopped': The Embodied Borderland of the Menopause by Julie Gittoes

Spiritual Pregnancies
Christian Spirituality in Pregnancy and Childbirth by Alison Price
Psycho-spiritual Formation in Pregnancy: A Letter to a Younger, Christian Friend by Jo Winn-Smith
Pregnancy, Motherhood, and Mysticism: Reading the Texts of Angela of Foligno by Michael Hahn and Lydia Shahan

Disruptive Pregnancies
Surrogacy, Secrecy, and the Sin of the Autonomous Self by Danielle Tumminio Hansen
Undignified Flesh: An Indignant Theology of Single Pregnancy by Karen Bray
Dissolving Domination by Ruth Wells
Pregnant and Fat by Sarah Pritchard
Voluminous by Ruth Wells
Pregnant Masculinities: Utilising the Frame of 'Solidarity' to Navigate Between the Dominant Frames of 'Dysphoria' and 'Euphoria' in Narratives of Transmasculine Pregnancy by Alex Clare-Young
The Seahorse by Ruth Wells

Ethical Pregnancies
Solidarity with the 'Stinking Womb': Contemplating the Experiences of Pregnant Dalit Women and Hagar by Eve Parker
Threatening Womb by Ruth Wells
The Precarity and Moral Obligations of Pregnancy by Margaret D. Kamitsuka
A Response to Karen O'Donnell's and Margaret Kamitsuka's Feminist Reimaginings of Eschatology through the Lens of Pregnancy Loss by Susannah Cornwall
Liminal Life: A Theological Response to Preimplanation Pregnancy, Embryo Disposal and Loss by Abigail Maguire
Liminality by Ruth Wells
Abortion and Theology: The Power Effects of the Abstract by Noirin MacNamara and Kellie Turtle

Painful Pregnancies
Groaning Witness: A Theological Response to Adverse Prenatal Diagnosis by Heather Morgan
The Mind of Christ: Self-Emptying, Kenosis, and Pregnancy Sickness by Chine McDonald
Hyperemesis Gravidarum Haiku by Ruth Wells
'May this mother, remembering no longer her anguish, trust you in all things': A Liturgical Response to Birth Trauma by Alice Watson
Attending to Silence and Screaming: A Theology from Mental Illness in Pregnancy by Beth Allison-Glenny
Bodies and All That by Ruth Wells

Afterbirth by Claire Williams and Karen O'Donnell