Feminist Poetics of the Sacred: Creative Suspicions (AAR Cultural Criticism Series) - Hardcover

9780195144680: Feminist Poetics of the Sacred: Creative Suspicions (AAR Cultural Criticism Series)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195144686 ISBN 13: 9780195144680

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2001

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 contets, 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.

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About the Author:

Lyn McCredden is at Deakin University.

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