Feminist Philosophy of Religion: Critical Readings

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Pamela Sue Anderson, Beverley Clack
Psychology Press, 2004 - Religion - 272 pages
Feminist philosophy of religion has developed in recent years because of the exposure of explicit sexism in much traditional philosophical thinking about religion. The struggle with a discipline shaped almost exclusively by men has led feminist philosophers to redress the problematic biases of gender, race, class and sexual orientation in the traditional subject.
Feminist Philosophy of Religion: Critical Readings brings together key new writings in this growing field. Part one of the reader explores important approaches to the feminist philosophy of religion, including psychoanalytic, poststructualist, postmetaphysical and epistemological frameworks. In part two, the contributors survey significant topics including questions of divinity, embodiment, spirituality and religious practice. Supported by explanatory prefaces and an extensive bibliography, Feminist Philosophy of Religion: Critical Readings is an important resource for this new area of study.

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Contents

A psychoanalytic approach
28
A poststructuralist approach
42
A theological approach
73
An epistemologicalethical approach
87
PART
103
Women writing the divine
123
Embodiment
151
Recollecting religion in the realm of the body
170
Feminism and human mortality
183
Autonomy and spirituality
197
Autonomy and female spirituality in a Polish
210
Religious practice
223
a feminist reclamation of
241
Guide to further reading
264
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