livesimply is an initiative launched by the Catholic relief agency, CAFOD, to encourage lifestyles that are simple, sustainable and that show solidarity with the poor. It has been the focus of much of their recent fundraising – asking people to take the 1% challenge, for example, whereby they live o... (more)

Continuing the exploration of women's representation and roles, constructions of gender, and attitudes towards sexuality in the early church, this text looks at a variety of issues - such as slavery, prostitution and Evangelical responses - in order to identify key areas for biblical debate.

This third volume in the "feminist companions" series deals with Lukan themes in feminist perspectives. The 14 essays from an international authorship cover a range of issues, including imperial masculinity, Mary and asceticism, Martha in the kitchen and reading Luke 15 with Arab-Christian women. Th... (more)

The fourteen essays from an international authorship cover a range of issues, including Imperial Masculinity, Mary and Asceticism, Martha in the Kitchen and Reading Luke 15 with Arab Christian Women.

The sixth volume in this series deals with the letters that are generally attributed to the apostle Paul. In this formidable collection, contributors including Richard Hays, Daniel Boyarin, Kathleen Corley, Beverly Gaventa, Margaret MacDonald and Luise Schottroff explore such topics as gender, sexua... (more)

The second feminist volume volume on Johannine literature includes an Introduction by Amy-Jill Levine; Adele Reinhartz on Women in the Johannine Community: An Exercise in Historical Imagination; Satako Yamaguchi, "I Am (I Do)": Sayings and Women in Context; and Dorothy Lee, Abiding in the Fourth Gos... (more)

This successor to the "Feminist Companion to the Bible" brings together the new and classical studies of the New Testament and early Christian literary corpus from the whole range of feminist perspectives now available. The first of two volumes devoted to the Johannine literature, this deals with th... (more)