Writing
BOOKS
Motherly: Reimagining the Maternal Body in Feminist Theology and Contemporary Art. London: SCM Press, 2022. >
EDITED COLLECTIONS
Pryor, Rebekah and Stephen Burns, eds. Feminist Theologies: Interstices and Fractures. Minneapolis: Lexington Books/Fortress Press, 2023. >
Handasyde, Kerrie, Cathryn McKinney and Rebekah Pryor, eds. Contemporary Feminist Theologies: Power, Authority, Love. Abingdon: Routledge, 2021. >
BOOK CHAPTERS
“Good Feminist Collaboration.” In Feminist Theologies: A Companion, edited by Kerrie Handasyde, Katharine Massam and Stephen Burns. London: SCM Press, forthcoming 2024. >
“Christ as Princess of Pop.” In Seeing Christ in Australia Since 1850, edited by Kerrie Handasyde and Sean Winter. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2024. >
“Performing the Icon and other maternal gestures.” In Topologies of Sexual Difference, edited by Louise Burchill, Rebecca Hill and James Sares. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, forthcoming 2024.
"Materials in Tension: Assemblage and the Art of Revelation." In Numinous Fields: Perceiving the Sacred in Nature, Landscape, and Art, edited by Samer Akkech and John Powell. Leiden: Brill, 2024. >
"Untitled (Holy Mysteries) and Other Motifs of Containment, Presence, and Reservation." In Queering Christian Worship: Reconstructing Liturgical Theology, edited by Bryan Cones with Stephen Burns, Scott Haldeman and Sharon Fennema. New York: Seabury, 2023. >
“Wild, yes.” In Feminist Theologies: Interstices and Fractures, edited by Rebekah Pryor and Stephen Burns. Minneapolis: Lexington Books/Fortress Press, 2023. >
“This is My Body: Re-making the maternal image in terms of divine relation and difference.” In Feminist Theologies: Interstices and Fractures, edited by Rebekah Pryor and Stephen Burns. Minneapolis: Lexington Books/Fortress Press, 2023. >
“Caring Rituals and Rituals of Care." In Care Ethics and Art, edited by Jacqueline Milner and Gretchen Coombs. Abingdon: Routledge, 2022. >
“To speak, to say anything at all.” Co-written with Cathryn McKinney and Kerrie Handasyde. In Contemporary Feminist Theologies: Power, Authority, Love, edited by Kerrie Handasyde, Cathryn McKinney and Rebekah Pryor. Abingdon: Routledge, 2021. >
“Thinking, dancing: Exploring the gaps between ecstasy and distress.” In Contemporary Feminist Theologies: Power, Authority, Love, edited by Kerrie Handasyde, Cathryn McKinney and Rebekah Pryor. Abingdon: Routledge, 2021. >
JOURNAL ARTICLES
“Lullaby: Births, deaths and narratives of hope.” Religions 11, no. 3 (2020): 138. doi:10.3390/rel11030138 >
THESES
“This is My Body: Re-imagining the Mother and the Sacred in Art and Ordinary Life.” PhD Thesis, The University of Melbourne, 2017.
CATALOGUES
Holy, Honest Confluences. Melbourne, Australia: Rebekah Pryor, 2019. Exhibition catalogue. >
Cathedral. Melbourne, Australia: Rebekah Pryor, 2015. Exhibition catalogue. >
OTHER WRITING
God’s Squad: The First 50 Years. Edited by Rebekah Pryor, with Stephen Barrington, Di Duursma, Howard Ham and Michael Lelliot. Melbourne: God’s Squad CMC Inc., 2022.
"Holy Mysteries". Australian Catholic Liturgical Art. 2021. >
"Blue Spring Skies: Yoko Ono's Five Dots (2014) and other prompts for seeing beyond the image". The Cooperative. 2020. >
“Holy, Honest Confluences and the Value of Multiplicity”. Art/s and Theology Australia. 2019. >
REVIEWS
Hennessy, Anna M.. "Book Review: Motherly: Reimagining the Maternal Body in Feminist Theology and Contemporary Art by Rebekah Pryor", Reading Religion. March 29, 2024. >
Percy, Emma. “Book Review: Motherly: Reimagining the Maternal Body in Feminist Theology and Contemporary Art by Rebekah Pryor". Theology 125 (4): 2022 >
Cooper, Suzanne Fagence. “Book Review: Motherly: Reimagining the Maternal Body in Feminist Theology and Contemporary Art by Rebekah Pryor", Church Times. August 12, 2022 >
Pattenden, Rod. “Tears of the Mother”, review of Saltcellars (2018) by Rebekah Pryor, ArtWay, January 26, 2020. >
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