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Divine love

Luce Irigaray, Women, Gender, and Religion

By: Morny Joy

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Divine love

Luce Irigaray, Women, Gender, and Religion

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Divine love explores the work of Luce Irigaray from the perspective of religious studies. The book examines the development of religious themes in Irigaray’s work from Speculum of the Other Woman, in which she rejects traditional forms of western religion, to her more recent explorations of eastern religions. Irigaray’s ideas on love, the divine, the ethics of sexual difference and normative heterosexuality are analysed and placed in the context of the reception of her work by secular feminists such as Judith Butler, Drucilla Cornell and Elizabeth Grosz, as well as by feminists in Religious Studies such as Pamela Sue Anderson, Ellen Armour, Amy Hollywood and Grace Jantzen. Finally, Irigaray’s own spiritual path, which has been influenced by eastern religions, specifically the disciplines of yoga and tantra in Hinduism and Buddhism, is evaluated in the light of recent theoretical developments in orientalism and postcolonialism.

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Manchester University Press

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Divine love

Luce Irigaray, Women, Gender, and Religion

By: Morny Joy

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Gender, Genre and Religion

Feminist Reflections

By: Morny Joy,Eva K. Neumaier-Dargyay

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Gender, Genre and Religion

Feminist Reflections

By: Morny Joy,Eva K. Neumaier-Dargyay

Many feminists today are challenging the outmoded aspects of both the conventions and the study of religion in radical ways. Canadian feminists are no exception. Gender, Genre and Religion is the outcome of a research network of leading women scholars organized to survey the contribution of Canadian women working in the field of religious studies and, further, to “plot the path forward.” This collection of their essays covers most of the major religious traditions and offers exciting suggestions as to how religious traditions will change as women take on more central roles. Feminist theories have been used by all contributors as a springboard to show that the assumptions of unified monolithic religions and their respective canons is a fabrication created by a scholarship based on male privilege. Using gender and genre as analytical tools, the essays reflect a diversity of approaches and open up new ways of reading sacred texts. Superb essays by Pamela Dickey Young, Winnie Tomm, Morny Joy and Marsha Hewitt, among others, honour the first generation of feminist theologians and situate the current generation, showing how they have learned from and gone beyond their predecessors. The sensitive and original essays in Gender, Genre and Religion will be of interest to feminist scholars and to anyone teaching women and religion courses.

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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088920750X

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Death and the Displacement of Beauty

By: Grace Jantzen

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Death and the Displacement of Beauty

By: Grace 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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0415290341

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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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401

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Psychology Press

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0415290333

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A Place of Springs

By: Grace Jantzen

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A Place of Springs

By: Grace Jantzen

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0415469996

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Divine love

Divine love

Divine love

Divine love

Gender, Genre and Religion

Gender, Genre and Religion

Death and the Displacement of Beauty

Death and the Displacement of Beauty

Death and the Displacement of Beauty: Foundations of violence

Death and the Displacement of Beauty: Foundations of violence

A Place of Springs

A Place of Springs

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