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Mary Fulkerson

Professor Emerita of Theology
Divinity School
Duke Box 90967, Durham, NC 27708-0967
213 Old Divinity, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications


Gathering Those Driven Away: A Theology of Incarnation

Other Interpretation · 2013 [...]the book offers a profound, rich, mind-altering exercise in theological imagination that intersects with images of desire, bodies, and disruptive gender images, all of which transcend and transform the classics. ... Link to item Cite

Transforming Memory: Re-membering the Eucharist

Journal Article Theology Today · 2013 Cite

Ethnography: A Gift to Theology and Ethics

Journal Article Practical Matters · 2013 Cite

Receiving from the Other: Theology & Grass-Roots Organizing

Journal Article International Journal of Public Theology · 2012 Cite

The Oxford handbook of feminist theology

Book · 2012 "This innovative volume highlights the relevance of globalization and the insights of gender studies and religious studies for feminist theology. Beginning with a discussion of position of the discipline at the turn of the twenty-first century, the handboo ... Link to item Cite

Systematic Theology

Chapter · 2012 Cite

Places of redemption: theology for a worldly church

Journal Article Anglican Theological Review · June 1, 2010 Link to item Cite

Womyn and the Theological Perspective

Journal Article Womyn: the Queer Experience · 2010 Cite

Feminist Theology

Chapter · 2010 Cite

"I'm Not a Women's Libber, but...": Feminist Theologies and Non-Feminist Women

Journal Article The Ecumenist: A Journal of Theology, Culture, and Society · 2009 Cite

Theology and the Lure of the Practical: An Overview

Journal Article Religion Compass · 2007 Current trends in practical theology are found both within and outside of the typical divisions of theological education into the four fields of biblical studies, church history, systematic theology/ethics, and the so-called 'practical fields'. Although th ... Full text Link to item Cite

A place to appear: Ecclesiology as if bodies mattered

Journal Article Theology Today · January 1, 2007 Drawing upon the author's ethnographic study of an interracial church with members from group homes, the essay argues for "a place to appear" as an ecclesiological image supportive of reconciliation between persons of different races and abilities. The ima ... Full text Cite

Church

Chapter · 2005 Cite

Feminist theology

Chapter · 2003 Even with all their diversity, feminist, womanist, and mujerista theologies have one thing in common: they make the liberation of women central to the theological task. This is not to say that there is complete consensus concerning the ends of such liberat ... Full text Link to item Cite

Practice

Chapter · 2000 Link to item Cite

'Is there a (non-sexist) bible in this church?' A feminist case for the priority of interpretive communities

Chapter · 1998 Presents an examination of feminist theological thinking about biblical interpretation. Suggests how Fish's notion of communal conventions is helpful to feminist concerns, briefly considers the disturbance a shift to communities creates for traditional not ... Full text Link to item Cite

Feminist Exploration : A Theological Proposal.

Journal Article International Journal of Practical Theology · January 1, 1998 Link to item Cite

Spiritual Geographies

Journal Article Cross Currents: Journal of the Association for Religion and Intellectual Life · 1998 Cite

Changing the subject: feminist theology and discourse

Journal Article Literature and Theology · 1996 Expands the capacity of feminist theology to interpret the working of Christian traditions in the lives of non feminist women. Disputes the narrow focus on the semantics, the assumptions that language reflects reality, and that biblical texts have fixed me ... Link to item Cite

Church Documents on Human Sexuality and the Authority of Scripture

Journal Article Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology · January 1995 Full text Cite

Gender--Being It or Doing It? The Church, Homosexuality, and the Politics of Identity.

Journal Article Union Seminary Quarterly Review · January 1, 1993 Link to item Cite

Sexism as original sin: Developing a theacentric discourse

Journal Article Journal of the American Academy of Religion · December 1, 1991 Full text Cite

Contesting Feminist Canons: Discourse and the Problem of Sexist Texts

Journal Article Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion · 1991 Link to item Cite

Theological education and the problem of identity

Journal Article Modern Theology · 1991 Examines effort to devise a unifying cognitive rubric for theological education, focussing on issues of social oppression as found in work of poststructuralist and Marxist-feminist theorists, and with particular reference to work of Edward Farley ... Full text Link to item Cite