
Thealogy and Embodiment
The Post-Patriarchal Reconstruction of Female Sacrality
Melissa Raphael(Author)
Sheffield Academic Press
Published on 1. March 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-85075-757-3 (ISBN)
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
488 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85075-757-3 (9781850757573)
DOI
CBID120501
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Person
Melissa Raphael is Professor of Jewish Theology at the University of Gloucestershire, UK.