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Thealogy and Embodiment: The Post-Patriarchal Reconstruction of Female Sacrality
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Thealogy and Embodiment: The Post-Patriarchal Reconstruction of Female Sacrality
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Melissa Raphael
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:320 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156 |
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| Category/Genre | Christian theology |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9781850757573
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| Classifications | Dewey:230.046 |
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| Audience | | Undergraduate | | Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly | | Professional & Vocational | |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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| Imprint |
Sheffield Academic Press
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| Publication Date |
1 March 1996 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
'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-reducing diets, and menstrual taboos.
Author Biography
Melissa Raphael is Professor of Jewish Theology at the University of Gloucestershire, UK.
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