Becoming Divine: Towards a Feminist Philosophy of Religion"The book's contribution to feminist philosophy of religion is substantial and original.... It brings the continental and Anglo-American traditions into substantive and productive conversation with each other." --Ellen Armour To what extent has the emergence of the study of religion in Western culture been gendered? In this exciting book, Grace Jantzen proposes a new philosophy of religion from a feminist perspective. Hers is a vital and significant contribution which will be essential reading in the study of religion. |
Contents
aims of a feminist philosophy of religion | 6 |
Two Who becomes divine? The gendered subject of the philosophy of religion | 27 |
the double reading 199 | 59 |
desire truth and the imagination | 77 |
source of a feminist symbolic? | 100 |
death and natality in the western imaginary | 128 |
SEVEN They shall flourish as a garden | 156 |
HIGHT Language desire and the divine | 171 |
NINE Trustworthy community | 204 |
TEN Justice in the face of the natals | 227 |
ELEVEN A god according to our gender | 254 |
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