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Non-EvangelicalAnderson-Rajkumar, Evangeline. “PracticingGender Justice as a Faith Mandate in India.”Studies in World Christianity 13, no. 1 (2007):33–52.For Indian women to claim their rightful placein church leadership, the author contends, genderjustice must precede both theology and ministrybecause of belief in a God who is gender-just.the ultimate end of fatherhood. He criticizes theemphasis that soft patriarchalists place on subjective,therapeutic expressiveness in the home whilejustifying a strict segregation of public/privatespheres. (See also the response by Wilcox in thesame volume.)Bateye, Bolaji Olukemi. “Forging Identities:Women as Participants and Leaders in theChurch among the Yoruba.” Studies in WorldChristianity 13, no. 1 (2007): 1–12.Bateye observes that the rise of Pentecostalismin Africa has given occasion for women to takeleadership roles in the church. <strong>The</strong> female leaders ofthis new generation of churches have emphasizedthe place of women in Jesus’ ministry, the ontologicalequality of women to men, and that problematicPauline texts are culturally specific and non-bindingon the contemporary church.Makoro, <strong>The</strong>lma. “<strong>The</strong> Political Emancipation ofWomen in South Africa and the Challenge toLeadership in the Churches.” Studies in WorldChristianity 13, no. 1 (2007): 53–66.Makoro argues that a culture of male dominancein Southern Africa has led to the exclusionof women from pastoral leadership. She contendsfor women’s “emancipation” in church leadershipusing sociopolitical, rather than biblical, rationale.Furthermore, Makoro suggests that denyingwomen leadership positions in the church classifiesas “abuse and dehumanisation of women” (56).Wall, John. “Fatherhood, Childism, and the Creationof Society.” Journal of the American Academyof Religion 75, no. 1 (2007): 52–76.Wall critiques the “soft” patriarchy advocatedby sociologist Bradford Wilcox in Soft Patriarchs,New Men: How Christianity Shapes Fathers andHusbands. Wall instead argues for a child-centered,egalitarian “progressive familism” that sees cultivatinga child’s creative participation in society asJBMW | Spring 2008 65