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Religious Imagination and the Body

A Feminist Analysis

By: Paula M. Cooey

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Religious Imagination and the Body

A Feminist Analysis

By: Paula M. Cooey

In recent years feminist scholarship has increasingly focused on the importance of the body and its representations in virtually every social, cultural, and intellectual context. Many have argued that because women are more closely identified with their bodies, they have access to privileged and different kinds of knowledge than men. In this landmark new book, Paula Cooey offers a different perspective on the significance of the body in the context of religious life and practice. Building on the pathbreaking work of Elaine Scarry in The Body in Pain, Cooey looks at a wide range of evidence, from the Argentine prison narrative of Alicia Partnoy, to the novels of Toni Morrison and the paintings of Frida Kahlo. Drawing on current social theory and critique, cognitive psychology, contemporary fiction and art, and women's accounts of religious experience, Cooey relates the reality of sentience to the social construction of reality. Beginning with an examination of the female body as a metaphor for alternative knowledge, she considers the significance of physical pain and pleasure to the religious imagination, and the relations between sentience, sensuality, and female subjectivity. Cooey succeeds in bringing forward a sophisticated new understanding of the religious importance of the body, at the same time laying the foundations of a feminist theory of religion.

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Oxford University Press

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0195358619

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Family, Freedom, and Faith

Building Community Today

By: Paula M. Cooey

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Family, Freedom, and Faith

Building Community Today

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Building Community Today

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Westminster John Knox Press

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0664256635

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9780664256630

Willing the Good

Jesus, Dissent, and Desire

By: Paula M. Cooey

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Willing the Good

Jesus, Dissent, and Desire

By: Paula M. Cooey

Although Christianity began as a dissident movement and in the Reformation recreated itself through dissent, traditional Christianity has always been uneasy with dissent and pluralism. Whether directed against the church itself or the larger society, dissent has been most often met with ridicule and persecution.Lively and engaging, Cooey's highly relevant book retrieves and valorizes the reforming impulse from Reformation times, follows it back through the early church's internal and external battles, and traces it back to Jesus himself. She shows how a strong affirmation of dissent as a Christian duty can inform a more open and faithful church as well as a publically relevant theology and ethics.

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Fortress Press

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1451415753

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9781451415759

Religious Imagination and the Body

A Feminist Analysis

By: Paula M. Cooey

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Religious Imagination and the Body

A Feminist Analysis

By: Paula M. Cooey

Analyzing the female body as a metaphor for alternative knowledge, Cooey considers the significance of physical pain and pleasure to the religious imagination, and the relations between sentience, sensuality, and female subjectivity. This important study brings forward a sophisticated new understanding of the religious importance of the body, at the same time laying the foundations of a feminist theory of religion.

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184

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6610442878

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9786610442874

Family, Freedom, and Faith

Building Community Today

By: Paula M. Cooey

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Building Community Today

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Building Community Today

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Religious Imagination and the Body

Religious Imagination and the Body

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Family, Freedom, and Faith

Willing the Good

Willing the Good

Religious Imagination and the Body

Religious Imagination and the Body

Family, Freedom, and Faith

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