Six stories and 15 papers not so much document as reflect the international symposium held in Ticino, Switzerland in July 2000. Biblical scholars from 20 countries on five continents such topics as African American women re-reading the Bible for liberation, the Bible and other sacred texts in Latin America, postcolonial feminist hermeneutics of liberation, a contextual reading of the Book of Ruth by women in contemporary Palestinian society, the power of difference in the intercultural relations of feminist theologians, and recovering the liberation tradition of early Christianity in Korea. There is no index. Sheffield Academic Press in an imprint of Continuum. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR