Parenting as Spiritual Practice and Source for Theology

1. Introduction
Claire Bischoff, Elizabeth O’Donnell Gandolfo, Annie Hardison-Moody

Part I. Why Mothering Matters

2. The Race of It All: Conversations Between a Mother and Her Son
Kelly Brown Douglas

3. Inspired Mothering
Karen Baker-Fletcher

4. And the “Hall Was Burned to the Ground”: Mothers and Theological Body Knowledge
Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore

Part II. Complicating Categories of Mothering

5. Transgressive Mothering as Wo/Men’s Human Rights Work… Holiness and the Human
Hellena Moon

6. On Good Mothering: Practicing Solidarity in the Midst of the Breastfeeding Wars
Annie Hardison-Moody

7. Motherhood as Self-Giving and Self-Receiving Relationship
HyeRan Kim-Cragg

8. A Mother-Whore Is Still a Mother: Revelation 17–18 and African American Motherhood
Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder

Part III. Breaking Silences, Bearing Witness

9. Miscarriage Matters, Stillbirth’s Significance, and the Tree of Many Breasts
Neomi De Anda

10. Awake My Soul: Mothering Myself Toward Recovery
Claire Bischoff

11. Oceans of Love and Turbulent Seas: Mothering an Anxious Child and the Spirituality of Ambiguity
Marcia W. Mount Shoop

12. Parenting Elders: Finitude, Gratitude, and Grace
Mary Elizabeth Moore

Part IV. Rethinking Theology and Ethics

13. Motherhood and the (In)vulnerability of the Imago Dei: Being Human in the Mystical-Political Cloud of Impossibility
Elizabeth O’Donnell Gandolfo

14. In Justice and Love: The Christian Life in a Home with Mental Health Needs
María Teresa Dávila

15. “Courage Unparalleled Opened Her Utterly”: A Practical Theodicy
Wendy Farley

Keywords: Religious Studies, Feminist Theology, Religion and Gender, Religion and Society, Christian Theology