Feminist Philosophy of Religion: Critical Readings

Pamela Sue Anderson, Beverley Clack

Psychology Press, 2004 - Religion - 272 pages

Feminist philosophy of religion has developed in recent years because of the exposure of explicit sexism in much traditional philosophical thinking about religion. The struggle with a discipline shaped almost exclusively by men has led feminist philosophers to redress the problematic biases of gender, race, class and sexual orientation in the traditional subject.
Feminist Philosophy of Religion: Critical Readings brings together key new writings in this growing field. Part one of the reader explores important approaches to the feminist philosophy of religion, including psychoanalytic, poststructualist, postmetaphysical and epistemological frameworks. In part two, the contributors survey significant topics including questions of divinity, embodiment, spirituality and religious practice. Supported by explanatory prefaces and an extensive bibliography, Feminist Philosophy of Religion: Critical Readings is an important resource for this new area of study.

Contents

• Feminist approaches: 3
• A psychoanalytic approach: 28
• A poststructuralist approach: 42
• A postmetaphysical approach: 54
• A theological approach: 73
• An epistemologicalethical approach: 87
• Philosophical topics in feminist philosophy of religion: 103
• Divinity: 105
• Redeeming Mary the potential of Marian symbolism for feminist philosophy of religion: 107
• Women writing the divine: 123
• The price of masculine freedom and becoming a Jewish feminist response: 136
• Embodiment: 151
• Sacred metaphor Julia Kiristeva and Umberto Eco: 153
• Recollecting religion in the realm of the body or Body: 170
• Feminism and human mortality: 183
• Autonomy and spirituality: 197
• Love and attention: 199
• Autonomy and female spirituality in a Polish context divining a self: 210
• Religious practice: 223
• Practice belief and feminist philosophy of religion: 225
• Loving paradoxes a feminist reclamation of the Goddess Kali: 241
• Guide to further reading: 264
• Index: 267

About the author

Pamela Sue Anderson is Dean of Regent's Park College in Oxford, where she lectures in philosophy. She is the author of Feminist Philosophy of Religion: The Rationality and Myths of Religious Belief (1997). Beverley Clack is Senior Lecturer in Religious STudies and Philosophy at Oxford Brookes University. Her books include Sex and Death (2002), Misogyny in the Western Philosophical Tradition (1999) and The Philosophy of Religion (1998).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Feminist Philosophy of Religion: Critical Readings
• Editors: Pamela Sue Anderson, Beverley Clack
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Psychology Press, 2004
• ISBN: 0415257506, 9780415257503
• Length: 272 pages
• Subjects: Religion / Philosophy