Becoming divine : towards a feminist philosophy of religion
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Becoming divine : towards a feminist philosophy of religion
（Manchester studies in religion, culture and gender）
Manchester University Press, 1998
- : hb
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
To what extent has the emergence of the study of religion in western culture been gendered? This work proposes a new philosophy of religion from a feminist perspective. Starting with Luce Irigaray's discussion of Divine Women, she contrasts the idea of "becoming divine" with the more traditional aim of investigating the coherence and truth of theistic doctrines. She goes on to discuss religious language and the unconcious, drawing on the work of Derrida and Levinas, and so asks the fundamental question of what constitutes religion and religions. Building on the work of a number of French feminist philosophers, she then explores the possibility of developing a new imaginary religon, one that would replace the rigid structures of the masculinist symbolic and move towards feministy pantheism.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: "What canst thou say?" finding a feminist voice
- becoming divine - aims of a feminist philosophy of religion
- thinking diferently - the double reading
- the Creed and the Chiasmus - desire, truth and the imagination
- women's experience - source of a feminist symbolic
- in order to begin - the symbolics of death and natality
- who becomes divine? - the gendered subject of philosophy of religion
- language, desire and the divine
- herethics in the face of nathals
- God according to our gender.
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