The politics of heaven : women, gender, and empire in the study of Paul / Joseph A. Marchal.

Introduction: Interpretation at the intersection of approaches
Starting points and parameters : feminist and postcolonial analysis
Paul, Philippians, and the plan of this book
Histories of interpretation and "people's history" in Pauline studies
Initial inquiries and imperial intersections in interpretation
Gaps, erasures, and conflicts
Procedure and precedent
People's possibilities : subaltern history and problems of perspective
People's history and Pauline studies
Genealogies, genders, gaps, and geopolitics in people's history
Back to the biblical : antiquity and feminist, postcolonial approaches
A hymn within and a heavenly politeuma
A heavenly politeuma and a hymn within
Rhetorical interactions and Pauline interpretation : a postcolonial Paul?
Initial connections and conclusions
The rhetorics of imitation and postcolonial theories of mimicry
Imitation rhetorics in Paul and in Pauline scholarship
The promise and perils of postcolonial mimicry
Post-poning any undue celebrations : criticisms, cautions, and calibrations of postcolonial mimicry
Resistance, risks, and replications : on the limits of mimicry for a feminist postcolonial analysis
Women in the contact zone
Contact zone and transcultural interactions
Pauline travels and the Philippian contact zone
Euodia and syntyche : reconstructing co-workers in the contact zone
Concluding reflections and connections
Reviewing the present project
Elaborating further possibilities.