| Feminist Poetics of the Sacred: Creative Suspicions Contributor(s): Devlin-Glass, Frances (Editor), McCredden, Lyn (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0195144694 ISBN-13: 9780195144697 Publisher: American Academy of Religion OUR PRICE: $103.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2001 Annotation: This book is an interdisciplinary and multicultural study of ancient and contemporary texts that encode women's spirituality. The contributors, using modern critical methods such as feminist theory, poststructuralism, and the new historicisms, examine how the ideas in these texts are being reworked in different religious traditions. The volume encompasses both contemporary and historical contexts, tracing the roles, actions, writings, and beliefs of women in pre-Christian, Christian, Islamic, indigenous, and neo-pagan contexts. The book builds on three decades of feminist research into such areas as goddess worship, indigenous spiritualities, eco-feminism, biblical hermeneutics, Christian and Islamic mysticism, subversive poetics, and mythological systems inside and outside the mainstream. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | History - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory - Literary Criticism | Feminist |
| Dewey: 200.82 |
| LCCN: 00063698 |
| Lexile Measure: 1520 |
| Physical Information: 0.79" H x 6.19" W x 9.25" (0.81 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book is an interdisciplinary and multicultural study of ancient and contemporary texts that encode women's spirituality. The contributors, using modern critical methods such as feminist theory, poststructuralism, and the new historicisms, examine how the ideas in these texts are being reworked in different religious traditions. The volume encompasses both contemporary and historical contexts, tracing the roles, actions, writings, and beliefs of women in pre-Christian, Christian, Islamic, indigenous, and neo-pagan contexts. The book builds on three decades of feminist research into such areas as goddess worship, indigenous spiritualities, eco-feminism, biblical hermeneutics, Christian and Islamic mysticism, subversive poetics, and mythological systems inside and outside the mainstream. |