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Becoming Divine

Towards a Feminist Philosophy of Religion

By: Grace Jantzen

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Becoming Divine

Towards a Feminist Philosophy of Religion

By: Grace Jantzen

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.

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Indiana University Press

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Foundations of Violence

By: Grace M Jantzen,Grace M. Jantzen

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Foundations of Violence

By: Grace M Jantzen,Grace M. Jantzen

The pursuit of death and the love of death has characterized Western culture from Homeric times through centuries of Christianity, taking particular deadly shapes in Western postmodernity. This necrophilia shows itself in destruction and violence, in a focus on other worlds and degradation of this one, and in hatred of the body, sense and sexuality. In her major new book project Death and the Displacement of Beauty, Grace M. Jantzen seeks to disrupt this wish for death, opening a new acceptance of beauty and desire that makes it possible to choose life. Foundations of Violence enters the ancient world of Homer, Sophocles, Plato and Aristotle to explore the genealogy of violence in Western thought through its emergence in Greece and Rome. It uncovers origins of ideas of death from the 'beautiful death' of Homeric heroes to the gendered misery of war, showing the tensions between those who tried to eliminate fear of death by denying its significance, and those like Plotinus who looked to another world, seeking life and beauty in another realm.

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Routledge

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1134437250

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Violence to Eternity

By: Grace M. Jantzen

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Violence to Eternity

By: Grace M. Jantzen

In this volume Grace M. Jantzen continues her groundbreaking analysis of death and beauty in western thought by examining the religious roots of death and violence in the Jewish and Christian tradition, which underlie contemporary values. She shows how man’s fear of the female is often implicated in religious violence and in her critique of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian New Testament she examines a range of themes that show the western preoccupation with necrophilia. She examines the relation of death to the Jewish covenant, the nature of monotheism, Holy War and the Christian covenant and kingdom. However, Jantzen recognises that submerged beneath these themes in Judaism and Christianity are traces of an alternative world of beauty and life. Jantzen’s internationally recognised feminist philosophy of religion puts forward a powerful analysis of patriarchy and violence and reveals the hidden power of natality. Her work is a searching challenge for our times and one that gives hope in a violent world. This work is the first of two posthumous publications to complete her impressive genealogy death and beauty of western thought.

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1134437188

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A Place of Springs

By: Grace M. Jantzen

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A Place of Springs

By: Grace M. Jantzen

In this book Grace Jantzen constructs a Quaker spirituality of beauty as a theological-philosophical response to a world preoccupied with death and violence. Having mapped the foundations of western cultural violence in the Greco-Roman period and the Judea-Christian tradition in Foundations of Violence and Violence to Eternity, she now offers her alternative vision. This vision is an original and creative feminist reading of the Quaker tradition, considering George Fox and the writings of Quaker women, exploring the themes of inner light and beauty as alternatives to violence and the obstacles to building such an alternative world. After showing how seventeenth-century Quakers offered a different option for modernity, she maps the philosophical and ethical implications of engaging with the world through beauty and its transforming power. Written for everyone interested in contemporary spirtuality, it explains how Quaker ideas can provide a way to transform our violent world into one that celebrates life rather than death, peace rather than violence. This work is the second of two posthumous publications to complete Grace M. Jantzen’s Death and the Displacement of Beauty collection, which began with Foundations of Violence (Routledge, 2004).

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1135266786

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Forever fluid

A reading of Luce Irigaray’s Elemental Passions

By: Hanneke Canters,Grace M. Jantzen

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Forever fluid

A reading of Luce Irigaray’s Elemental Passions

By: Hanneke Canters,Grace M. Jantzen

Forever Fluid is a rich feast of literary and philosophical insight. It provides the first English commentary on Luce Irigaray’s poetic text, Elemental Passions, setting it within its context within continental thought. It explores Irigaray’s images and intentions, developing the gender drama that takes place within her book, and draws the reader into the conversation in the text between ‘I-woman’ and ‘you-man’. But the book is also much more than this, as it uses the exploration of sexual difference as a means to challenge the system of binary logic which has pervaded western thought since Aristotle. It develops the exciting idea of a fluid logic which can move beyond oppositions to multiple subjects and creativity of thought and action. While challenging Irigaray’s refusal to move beyond sexual difference, the book shows how her representation of sexual difference enables appreciation of difference of all kinds.

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Manchester University Press

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1526129736

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Power, Gender and Christian Mysticism

By: Grace Jantzen

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Power, Gender and Christian Mysticism

By: Grace Jantzen

In the western Christian tradition, the mystic was seen as having direct access to God, and therefore great authority. In this study, Dr Jantzen discusses how men of power defined and controlled who should count as a mystic, and thus who would have power: women were pointedly excluded. This makes her book of special interest to those in gender studies and medieval history. Its main argument, however, is philosophical. Because the mystical has gone through many social constructions, the modern philosophical assumption that mysticism is essentially about intense subjective experiences is misguided. This view is historically inaccurate, and perpetuates the same gendered struggle for authority which characterises the history of western christendom. This book is the first on the subject to take issues of gender seriously, and to use these as a point of entry for a deconstructive approach to Christian mysticism.

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Cambridge University Press

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Death and the Displacement of Beauty: Foundations of violence

By: Grace Jantzen

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Death and the Displacement of Beauty: Foundations of violence

By: Grace Jantzen

The pursuit and love of death has characterized Western culture since Homeric times. Foundations of Violence enters the ancient world of Homer, Plato and Aristotle to explore the genealogy of violence in Western thought. It covers the origins of ideas of death--the "beautiful death" of Homeric heroes-through to the gendered misery of war. Jantzen examines the tensions between those who tried to eliminate fear of death by denying its significance, and those like Plotinus who looked to another world for life and beauty.

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Psychology Press

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Becoming Divine

Towards a Feminist Philosophy of Religion

By: Grace Jantzen

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Violence to Eternity

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Foundations of Violence

By: Grace Jantzen

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Foundations of Violence enters the ancient world of Homer, Plato and Aristotle to explore the genealogy of violence in Western thought through its emergence in Greece and Rome.

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Power, Gender and Christian Mysticism

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Death and the Displacement of Beauty

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Death and the Displacement of Beauty

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In this volume Grace M. Jantzen continues her groundbreaking analysis of death and beauty in western thought by examining the religious roots of death and violence in the Jewish and Christian tradition, which underlie contemporary values. She shows how man's fear of the female is often implicated in religious violence and in her critique of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian New Testament she examines a range of themes that show the western preoccupation with necrophilia. She examines the relation of death to the Jewish covenant, the nature of monotheism, Holy War and the Christian covenant and kingdom. However, Jantzen recognises that submerged beneath these themes in Judaism and Christianity are traces of an alternative world of beauty and life. Jantzen's internationally recognised feminist philosophy of religion puts forward a powerful analysis of patriarchy and violence and reveals the hidden power of natality. Her work is a searching challenge for our times and one that gives hope in a violent world. This work is the first of two posthumous publications to complete her impressive genealogy death and beauty of western thought.

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Foundations of Violence

By: Grace M Jantzen,Grace M. Jantzen

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Julian of Norwich - Spck Classic

By: Grace Jantzen

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Julian of Norwich - Spck Classic

By: Grace Jantzen

Julian of Norwich, an anchoress of the fourteenth century has captured the imagination of our time in a remarkable way. This detailed study of Julian attempts not only to penetrate her theological ideas but also bring to life her world and her life as an anchoress.

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Julian of Norwich

Mystic and Theologian

By: Grace Jantzen

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Julian of Norwich

Mystic and Theologian

By: Grace Jantzen

Julian of Norwich, an anchoress of the fourteenth century, has captured the imagination of our time in a remarkable way. She shares with her readers the deepest and most intimate experiences of her life through her writings.This detailed study of Julian attempts not only to penetrate her theological ideas but also brings to life her world and her life as an anchoress. Grace Jantzen has more than an academic interest in Julian's writings and sets out to integrate scholarly findings with contemporary spirituality. There is much in the thought of this extraordinary woman mystic which is excitingly relevant; her insights into spiritual growth and wholeness foreshadow the modern interest in psychotherapy and her image of Christ as mother has resounding implications for Christian feminist theology.In a new introduction to this edition, the author explores what it might mean to be an anchoress in post modernity, and how reflections on Julian of Norwich and her desire for God can enable us to become the space of divine transformation.This is a book not only for those who have a scholarly interest in Julian, but also for anyone drawn to Christian mysticism and the place of women within that tradition.Julian of Norwich, an anchoress of the fourteenth century, has captured the imagination of our time in a remarkable way. She shares with her readers the deepest and most intimate experiences of her life through her writings.

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Paulist Press

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080913991X

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Forever fluid

A reading of Luce Irigaray’s Elemental Passions

By: Hanneke Canters,Grace M. Jantzen

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A reading of Luce Irigaray’s Elemental Passions

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Book's by Grace M. Jantzen

Becoming Divine

Becoming Divine

Foundations of Violence

Foundations of Violence

Violence to Eternity

Violence to Eternity

A Place of Springs

A Place of Springs

Forever fluid

Forever fluid

Power, Gender and Christian Mysticism

Power, Gender and Christian Mysticism

Death and the Displacement of Beauty: Foundations of violence

Death and the Displacement of Beauty: Foundations of violence

Becoming Divine

Becoming Divine

Violence to Eternity

Violence to Eternity

Foundations of Violence

Foundations of Violence

Power, Gender and Christian Mysticism

Power, Gender and Christian Mysticism

Death and the Displacement of Beauty

Death and the Displacement of Beauty

Foundations of Violence

Foundations of Violence

Julian of Norwich - Spck Classic

Julian of Norwich - Spck Classic

Julian of Norwich

Julian of Norwich

Forever fluid

Forever fluid

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