The Eucharist continues to be central to contemporary Christian religious tradition and to be the focus for a wide range of assumptions and disputes. Chief amongst these disputes is the role of women in the theology and the ritual of the Eucharist.Reinterpreting the Eucharist brings together a diverse range of voices with each using their own marginalized experience to explore other ways - indigenous culture, medieval and contemporary art, social history, and environmental ethics - of engaging with the Eucharist. Presenting new forms of theological and ethical engagement, the book responds to the challenge of reconsidering the meaning of the Eucharist today.

Anne Elvey is an adjunct research fellow at Monash University and an honorary research associate with MCD University of of Divinity. She is the author of An Ecological Feminist Reading of the Gospel of Luke: A Gestational Paradigm (2005) and The Matter of the Text: Material Engagements between Luke and the Five Senses (2011).

Carol Hogan is a member of the Congregation of the Servants of the Blessed Sacrament, where she lived an enclosed contemplative life for fifteen years. Since the advent of Vatican II, she has worked as a chaplain at the University of Melbourne, and in 2007 completed her doctoral thesis, Eucharist Metamorphosis: Changing Symbols - Changing Lives.

Kim Power was a founding member of the Golding Centre for the study of Women's History, Theology and Spirituality at Australian Catholic University. She is the author of Veiled Desire: Augustine on Women.

Preface Elizabeth Pike 1. Introduction Kim Power and Carol Hogan 2. Eucharistic Metamorphosis: Changing Symbol Changing Lives Carol Hogan 3. The Sunday Eucharist: Embodying Christ in a Prophetic Act Carmel Pilcher 4. How Australian Aboriginal Christian Womanist Tiddas (Sisters) Theologians Celebrate the Eucharist Lee Miena Skye 5. Women, Eucharist, and Good News to all Creation in Mark Elizabeth Dowling and Veronica Lawson 6. Rediscovering Forgotten Features: Scripture, Tradition and Whose Feet May Be Washed on Holy Thursday Night Kathleen P. Rushton 7.Mystery Appropriated: Disembodied Eucharist and Meta-theology Frances Gray 8. Real Presence: Seeing, Touching, Tasting: Visualizing the Eucharist in Late Medieval Art Claire Renkin 9. Embodying the Eucharist Kim Power 10. Living One for the Other: Eucharistic Hospitality as Ecological Hospitality Anne Elvey