This book explores matters relating to indigenous land and people, feminist theology, multiculturalism and intercultural theologies, sexual abuse, suicide and worship, church tradition(ing)s and betrayal, art and masculinity, climate change and climate justice, disability theories, Islamic insights, migration and the need to reimagine home.

This book presents theological, cultural, ecclesial, and hermeneutical explorations from a specific context—Australia. It invites reimagining of theology and hermeneutics against the horizons of indigeneity and sovereignty, contingencies of context, feminist theologies, multiculturalism and intercultural theologies, sexual abuse and ecclesial cover-ups, suicide and worship, tradition(ing)s and betrayal, art and popular cultures, climate effects and climate (in) justice, disability theories, Islamic insights, migration and the images of home, and heaps of contextual matters in between. The chapters are organized into three sections: (1) Roots presents some of the starting points for contextual thinking in Australia and beyond; (2) Wounds attends to the demands of “bodies on the line” upon theological, biblical, and ecclesial engagements; and (3) Shifts pokes at thinkers and critics.

List of Figures

Preface

Acknowledgment

1Bloody (con)Texts

Jione Havea

Part 1: Roots

2.Postcolonial Colonialism and its Multiple Contexts of Solidarity

Mark G. Brett

3.A Kaleidoscopic Vessel Sailing a Kyriarchal Ocean: The Third Wave Feminist Theologies of Women-Church (1987–2007)

Anita J. Monro

4.The Reason We Do Not Hear: Theology Struggling with its Colonial Location

Chris Budden

5.Multiculturalism as Theology and Policy: The Challenges and Possibilities

John G. Flett

Part 2: Wounds

6.Grace and Disgraced: Child Sexual Abuse and the Holy Roman Catholic Australian Church

Cristina Lledo Gomez

7.When Easter Dawns and All is Not Well: A Pastoral Encounter with Disappointment

Cathryn McKinney

8.Faithfulness or Betrayal? Tradition in “Geriatric Assemblies”

Stephen Burns

Part 3: Shifts

9.Images of Jesus and Masculinity in the Work of the Artist Reg Mombassa

Rod Pattenden

10.Climate as Context

Anne Elvey

11.Reframing the Way We Read the Glorified (Veiled) Moses at Sinai and Corinth

Emmanuel Nathan

12.Who is the “Us”? Shifting the Audience for Christ’s Sake

Clive Pearson

13.Reimagining Home: Migration and Identity in a Changing Climate

Seforosa Carroll

Bibliography

Index

About the Contributors