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Author: Frances Devlin-Glass
Publisher: American Academy of Religion
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 0195144694
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a multicultural study of ancient & contemporary texts that encode women's spirituality. It includes both contemporary & historical contexts, tracing the roles, actions & beliefs of women in pre-Christian, Christian & Islamic contexts.
Author: Frances Devlin-Glass
Publisher: American Academy of Religion
Published: 2001-06-28
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 0195349326
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Marina Carreira
Publisher: Get Fresh Books Publishing, a Nonprofit Corporation
Published: 2021-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781734580228
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Divine Feminist: An Anthology of Poetry & Art by Womxn and Non-Binary Folx is a collection of art and poetry by a multitude of genius, glorious beings who have found the divine in all places-their bodies, their cities, in heartbreak and politics, in sex and motherhood-and for who art and literature are both a form of spiritual practice and an act of protest. To investigate the connections between the sacred and mundane, the political and personal via poetry and art that resists all systems of oppression and stands in solidarity with BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ people. Radiant and radical, every work within these pages capture the wild beauty and sacred darkness of existence.
Author: Elizabeth M. A. Hodgson
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780874136746
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This first book-length feminist study of Donne argues that his sacred subject-position is ambivalently and illustratively invested in cultural archetypes of mothers, daughters, and brides. The chapters focus on baptism, marriage, and death as key moments in Donne's and his culture's construction of the gendered soul.
Author: Jennifer Reek
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-09-25
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1351396382
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This innovative book aims to create a ‘poetics of Church’ and a ‘religious imaginary’ as alternatives to more institutional and conventional ways of thinking and of being ‘Church’. Structured as a spiritual and literary journey, the work moves from models of the institutional Catholic Church into more radical and ambiguous textual spaces, which the author creates by bringing together an unorthodox group of thinkers referred to as ‘poet-companions’: the 16th-century founder of the Society of Jesus, Ignatius of Loyola, the French thinkers Gaston Bachelard and Hélène Cixous, the French poet Yves Bonnefoy, and the English playwright Dennis Potter. Inspired especially by the reading and writing practices of Cixous, the author attempts to exemplify Cixous’ notion of écriture féminine—‘feminine writing’—that suggests new ways of seeing and relating. The project’s uniting of Ignatian spirituality with postmodern thinking and its concern with creating new theological, literary and spiritual spaces for women both coincide and contrast with Pope Francis’s pastoral and reformist tendencies, which have neglected to adequately address the marginalisation of women in the Church. As Francis has called for ‘a theology of women’, of which there are, of course, many to draw from, this volume will be a timely contribution with a unique interdisciplinary approach.
Author: Doina Petrescu
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007-05-07
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 1134325339
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection of essays addresses and defines the state of contemporary theories and practices of space: it is concerned with the growing importance of technology and communications, the effects of globalization and the change of social demands. Within the current urban and geopolitical contexts, it addresses the emergence of new social and political theories that raise questions of identity and difference in modern society. The book reiterates feminist concerns with space from the critical stance of the new millennium. With contributions from the leading theorists and thinkers from around the world representing the fields of architecture, art, philosophy and gender studies, this book has a truly international and interdisciplinary reach.
Author: Angela Berlis
Publisher: Studies in Theology and Religi
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 9789004254602
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An interdisciplinary gender-sensitive approach toward perspectives on the everyday and the sacred are the hallmark of this volume. Looking beyond the dualistic status-quo, the authors probe the categories, textures, powers, and practices that define how we experience, embody, and understand religion and the sacred, their interconnection, but also disassociation with the secular.
Author: Gina Messina
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
Published: 2017-10-17
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 1457546396
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In a world where women’s issues are political issues, feminism and religion are often scripted as opposing sides. But, drawing on the messages of love and social justice from within their religious traditions, women are leading feminist movements that promote positive social change at both the micro and macro levels. Religion is fueling women’s efforts to revolutionize the world! Women Religion Revolution is a provocative collection of essays written by women who understand that being passive is not an option. Each story resonates with passion drawn from the well of faith, along with a drive to forge a connection with other women. The experiences that can shape a woman’s soul are often negative and isolating—sexual assault, domestic violence, eating disorders, addictions—but in seeking healing, in seeking to effect revolutionary change, women often find that the path leads toward other women, toward a connectedness that strengthens us all. This is a very stimulating book. This volume brings together nineteen interesting articles from women from a variety of religious and social traditions. A good book to read and to own as a resource in women's experience of feminism and religion. Rosemary Radford Ruether, Professor of Theology, Claremont Graduate University This is feminist religious thought at its most courageous and creative. The narratives by these authors offer inspiring, revolutionary, spiritual insights about women’s lives, bodies, and violence. Traci C. West, Professor of Ethics and African American Studies, Drew University Theological School The women in this volume are bold in uncovering persistent problems and rethinking new possibilities for thought and action. Their essays are personal, based on the authors’ own experiences as Muslims, Jews, Christians, and Mormons; but they articulate their insights in ways that reverberate in many different contexts. These essays touch on all areas of concern for women: reproduction, sexuality, body image, violence and abuse, poverty and wealth, spiritual power and women’s ordination, the sacred and the Divine. These essays will inspire you. Margaret Toscano, Associate Professor of Comparative Studies, University of Utah
Author: Theresa M. DiPasquale
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2008-04-21
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 0820705195
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Theresa M. DiPasquale’s study of John Donne, Aemilia Lanyer, and John Milton demonstrates how each of these seventeenth century English poets revised, reformed, and renewed the Judeo-Christian tradition of the sacred feminine. The central figures of this tradition—divine Wisdom, created Wisdom, the Bride, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and Ecclesia—are essential to the works of Donne, Lanyer, and Milton. All three poets are deeply invested in the ancient, scripturally authorized belief that the relationship between God and humankind is gendered: God is father, bridegroom, king; the human soul and the church as corporate entity are daughter, bride, and consort. This important text not only casts new light on these poets and on the history of Christian doctrine and belief, but also makes enormous contributions to our understanding of the feminine more broadly. It will be of interest to scholars who study the Literary Studies, religion, and culture of early modern England, to feminist theologians, and to any reader grappling seriously with gender issues in Christian theology and spirituality.
Author: Unifier Hazel Tshimangadzo Dyer
Publisher:
Published: 2023
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →To read the Sacred in Black global literatures which include African, Caribbean, and North American texts we must draw upon Indigenous epistemologies and Black feminist theory which un/settle colonial logics and re/member African epistemologies of being and becoming. This study asks what modes, practices, and aesthetics of writing Black women draw upon to make legible imaginative projects that are steeped in the poetics of the Sacred. I undertake a close examination of select postcolonial novels, biomythographies, and Afrofuturist texts, through interlocutors in the discourses of Black studies, Indigenous Knowledge, African humanism, and Black Feminist studies. While examining the literary and cultural texts together reveals instances of imaginative, ontological, epistemological, and personal self-fashioning, the proposed reading allows for a definitive reconsideration and unsettling of Eurocentric frameworks. This study shows that the Sacred is important as a cyclic idea of being expressive of a relationality between the living, non-living/Ancestral/spirit, and unborn. The implication of the poetics of the Sacred is that critical analysis can be done across different geographies, genres, and temporalities.
