New Topics in Feminist Philosophy of Religion

Feminist philosophy of religion continues to be a vital field of inquiry. This is a collection of consistently high quality essays which open up new possibilities for spiritual practice, while contesting the gender-bias of traditional concepts.

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.

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

Inhalt
Contestations: Concepts and Practices.- Feminists and Fools: Imagination and Philosophy of Religion.- Rethinking the Problem of Evil with Hannah Arendt and Grace Jantzen.- Horizons and Limitations of Muslim Feminist Hermeneutics: Reflections on the Menstruation Verse.- Is Unconditional Forgiveness Ever Good?.- Simone Weil's Social Philosophy: Toward a Post-Colonial Ethic.- Bargaining with Spiritual Patriarchy: Women in the Shas1 Movement in Israel.- Temptress on the Path: Women as Objects and Subjects in Buddhist Jataka Stories.- Is Literature Any Help in Liberating Eve and Mary?.- The Abandoned Fiancée, or Against Subjection.- Kant and the Present.- Transcendence Incarnate: Space, Self and Other.- The Lived Body, Gender and Confidence.- In Defence of Female Genius: Maude Royden and Passionate Celibacy.- Becoming the Goddess: Female Subjectivity and the Passion of the Goddess Radha.- Bodies in Space: Transcendence and the Spatialization of Gender.- The Unfolding of Our Lives with Others: Heidegger and Medieval Mysticism.- Beauvoir and the Transcendence of Natality.- The Body as Site of Continuity and Change.- The Problem of Transcendence in Irigaray's Philosophy of Sexual Difference.- An Ethics of the In-Between: A Condition of Possibility of Being and Living Together.- Creating a Space for Practical Wisdom: The Dance of Transcendence Incarnate.