Feminist Poetics of the Sacred: Creative Suspicions / Edition 1

by Frances Devlin-Glass, Lyn McCredden

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195144697
Publisher:	American Academy of Religion
Publication date:	06/28/2001
Series:	AAR Cultural Criticism Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)
Lexile:	1520L (what's this?)