Women and the divine: touching transcendence

Women and the divine: touching transcendence

Howie, Gillian

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This collection explores the question of whether it is possible to re-concieve the catagory of trancendence from a feminist perspective. The contributors use the concept of transcendence to approach questions relating to the body, desire, and subjectivity, while offering a response to secular relativism. INDICE: Towards a Divine in the Feminine; L.Irigaray - Transcendence and Feminist Philosophy: On Avoiding Apotheosis; P.S.Anderson - Transcendence, Materialism and the Re-enchantment of Nature: Towards a Theological Materialism; P.Haynes - Transcendence and Immanence: Coming of Age in Philosophy - Clare Colebrook - Women, Sacrifice and Transcendence; M.Joy - The Return of the Goddess: Femininity and Divine Leadership; B.Metcalfe - Cutting b Godb Down to Size: Transcendence and the Feminine; M.King - That Which is God; D.Hampson - Islamic Spirituality and the Feminine Dimension; H.Jawad - Shekhinahb s Kiss: Tracing the Inter-Face between Motherhood and God in the Holocaust; M.Raphael - A Very Particular Body: Assessing the doctrine of Incarnation for affirming the Sacramentality of Female Embodiment; H.Bacon

  • ISBN: 978-1-4039-8413-5
  • Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Encuadernacion: Cartoné
  • Páginas: 272
  • Fecha Publicación: 20/02/2009
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés