Overview
- A collection of consistently high quality essays by some very well known and respected names in the field alongside some strong emerging feminist philosophical voices
- Includes a serious level of critical interaction with such non-feminist Western philosophers as Kant, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Levinas, Bourdieu and Deleuze
- Addresses the feminist struggle with and beyond oppressive aspects of God, especially gender specific conceptions of the divine
- Goes into the question of how ethnic, racial, sexual, social and material differences can lead to more just configurations of religion and the divine
- Includes both Western and non-Western feminist philosophy of religion
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Contestations: Concepts and Practices
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Transcendence Incarnate: Space, Self and Other
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About this book
Having enjoyed more than a decade of lively critique and creativity, feminist philosophy of religion continues to be a vital field of inquiry. New Topics in Feminist Philosophy of Religion maintains this vitality with both women and men, from their own distinctive social and material locations, contributing critically to the rich traditions in philosophy of religion. The twenty contributors open up new possibilities for spiritual practice, while contesting the gender-bias of traditional concepts in the field: the old models of human and divine will no longer ‘simply do’! A lively current debate develops in re-imagining and revaluing transcendence in terms of body, space and self-other relations.
This collection is an excellent source for courses in feminist philosophy, phenomenology, hermeneutics and literature, Continental and analytical philosophy of religion, engaging with a range of religions and philosophers including Kant, Kierkegaard, Marx, Heidegger, Arendt, Weil, Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty, Ricoeur, Levinas, Irigaray, Bourdieu, Kristeva, Le Doeuff, bell hooks and Jantzen.
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From the reviews:
“New Topics in Feminist Philosophy of Religion has a clear and well organized structure. … It makes a significant contribution to the ongoing study of religion and gender through its focus on contemporary debates among feminist philosophers of religion. … The book provides much to choose from, whether readers are established academics, younger scholars interested in lively philosophical debates, or students eager to learn about a new field or in search of a suitable research topic.” (Ursula King, Religion & Gender, Vol. 3 (1), 2013)Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: New Topics in Feminist Philosophy of Religion
Book Subtitle: Contestations and Transcendence Incarnate
Editors: Pamela Sue Anderson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6833-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-6832-4Published: 18 March 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9097-1Published: 31 August 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-6833-1Published: 05 December 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 338
Topics: Philosophy of Religion, Gender Studies, Phenomenology, Religious Studies, general, Gender Studies