Becoming divine : towards a feminist philosophy of religion
To what extent has the emergence of the study of religion in western culture been engendered? This work proposes a philosophy of religion from a feminist perspective. It also explores the possibility of developing an imaginary religion to replace the rigid structures of the masculine symbolic.
Print Book, English, 1998
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Manchester University Press, Oxford Road, Manchester, 1998
VIII, 296 p. ; 23 cm.
9780719053542, 9780719053559, 0719053544, 0719053552
911317698
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.