Theology and embodiment : the post-patriarchal reconstruction of female sacrality / Melissa Raphael.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Raphael, Melissa, author.

Series:

Feminist Theology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist theology.

Feminist spirituality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Other Title:

Theology & embodiment

Place of Publication:

Sheffield, England : Sheffield Academic Press, [1996]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Thealogy and Embodiment' both analyses and contributes to spiritural feminism's postmodern construction of the female body as a metaphor and medium of divine generativity. Addressing religious studies and women's studies students and all those interested in contemporary spirituality, Raphael counters reformist feminism's recurrent criticism of goddess feminism as naively essentialist and sub-political. She presents spiritual feminism as a set of religio-political manoeuvres that powerfully resist such patriarchal degradations of female/natural generativity as environmental destruction, weight-

Contents:

CONTENTS; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1; FEMALE SACRALITY IN A FEMINIST CONTEXT; Chapter 2; THE SACRAL BODY; Chapter 3; WOMEN IN LABOUR; Chapter 4; A FEMINIST MENSTRUAL TABOO; Chapter 5; THE MENSTRUAL OTHER; Chapter 6; THEALOGY FROM THE EDGE OF CHAOS; Chapter 7; THE COSMOGONIC WOMB; Select Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 15, 2014).

ISBN:

9786613200785

9781283200783

1283200783

9780567576040

0567576043

OCLC:

741690858