Feminist Philosophy of Religion: Critical ReadingsFeminist 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. |
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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 |
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 |
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 |
Loving paradoxes a feminist reclamation of the Goddess Kali | 241 |
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Feminist Philosophy of Religion: Critical Readings Pamela Sue Anderson,Beverley Clack Limited preview - 2004 |
Feminist Philosophy of Religion: Critical Readings Pamela Sue Anderson,Beverley Clack No preview available - 2004 |
A Feminist Philosophy of Religion: The Rationality and Myths of Religious Belief Pamela Sue Anderson No preview available - 1997 |
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