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Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza and Postcolonial Studies

Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza has made distinguished contributions to the fields of feminist biblical hermeneutics and feminist theological and religious studies. The influence of her work is worldwide. On this occasion to celebrate her seventieth birthday, I want to focus on how her work provides insights for postcolonial studies of Christianity. If we compare her earlier classic In Memory of Her (1983) with some of her later publications, we can discern her growing interest in global feminist scholarship. Over the years, her discussants have expanded to include many scholars from the third world. As Schüssler Fiorenza has noted, her critical feminist interpretation for liberation shows affinities to postcolonial criticism because both emphasize the decolonizing task of biblical hermeneutics and the process of conscientization.1 In 1996, at a lecture given at the twenty-fifth meeting of the Korean Association of Christian Studies, which I had the privilege of attending, she discussed the meaning of postcolonialism and the ways the Bible and biblical studies have been associated with Western colonialism.2 Following Françoise Lionnet, she defined postcoloniality as “a condition that exists within, and thus contests and resists the colonial moment itself with its ideology of domination.”3 In a later