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Towards a Re-reading of Asian Feminist Herstory

 
CCA-FMU joint executive secretary Hope Antone attended a series of meetings on 14-20 January 2006 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia organized by the Asian Women's Resource Centre for Culture and Theology (AWRC).

First was a two-day meeting of the Young Women Doing Theology network. The second was a workshop on "A Reconstruction of the Early Christian Origins - An Asian Feminist Perspective". The third was the meeting of the Planning Team - consisting of Virginia, Anna Marsiana, Hisako, Malini Devananda, Jessica Richard, Arche Ligo, Yong Ting Jin, Clare Law and Hope Antone.

Speakers at the workshop were Sr. Virgina Fabella, on "What is Asian Feminist Perspective?"; Ms. Nelun Gunasekera, "A Criticial Reconstruction of Early Christian Origins in a Feminist Perspective"; Sr. Pauline Chakkalakal, on "Women's Leadership and Apostleship in Pauline Christianity"; Dr. Hyunju Bae, on "Women's Leadership and Apostleship in Pauline Christianity" and "Women in Apocryphal and Gnostic Writings"; and Dr. Hisako Kinukawa, on the "Discovery of Nag Hammadi and Gnostic Texts".

The writing and/or re-writing of history surfaced as a real issue in the workshop on feminist re-reading of history. For how do we begin to record (or retrieve) the already forgotten memories of the roles of women in the Jesus movement, in early Christianity, in Asian Christianity and the ecumenical movement, etc.? How do we make sure that the history that is going on today will no longer exclude women and other marginalized groups in church and society?

This will certainly have some bearing for CCA especially as we prepare for the 50th anniversary in 2007.

posted by hope on Saturday, January 21, 2006  



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