Re-visioning Gender in Philosophy of Religion: Reason, Love and Epistemic LocatednessRoutledge, 24. okt 2017 - 264 pages A passion for justice and truth motivates the bold challenge of Revisioning Gender in Philosophy of Religion. Unearthing the ways in which the myths of Christian patriarchy have historically inhibited and prohibited women from thinking and writing their own ideas, this book lays fresh ground for re-visioning the epistemic practices of philosophers. Pamela Sue Anderson seeks both to draw out the salient threads in the gendering of philosophy of religion as it has been practiced and to re-vision gender for philosophy today. The arguments put forth by contemporary philosophers of religion concerning human and divine attributes are epistemically located; yet the motivation to recognize this locatedness has to come from a concern for justice. This book presents invaluable new perspectives on the philosopher’s ever-increasing awareness of his or her own locatedness, on the gender (often unwittingly) given to God, the ineffability in both analytic and Continental philosophy, the still critical role of reason in the field, the aims of a feminist philosophy of religion, the roles of beauty and justice, the vision of love and reason, and a gendering which opens philosophy of religion up to diversity. |
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... divine relations are either shaping or accepting (given) exclusive norms of heterosexuality, of femininity and masculinity. Traditionally Anglo-American philosophers of religion have assumed uncritically that gender has to do with ...
... divine relations are either shaping or accepting (given) exclusive norms of heterosexuality, of femininity and masculinity. Traditionally Anglo-American philosophers of religion have assumed uncritically that gender has to do with ...
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... divine (attributes). The use of 'myth', in this context as also mentioned in the Preface, does not mean a mere falsehood as assumed in more 4 Rich, 'When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-vision', p. 167. 5 Naomi Zack, 'Can Third Wave ...
... divine (attributes). The use of 'myth', in this context as also mentioned in the Preface, does not mean a mere falsehood as assumed in more 4 Rich, 'When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-vision', p. 167. 5 Naomi Zack, 'Can Third Wave ...
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... divine characters and their most fundamental relationships. Myth has emerged in the histories of humankind to tell stories about the origins of human goodness and evil, human culture and social contracts. Myths are often about human and ...
... divine characters and their most fundamental relationships. Myth has emerged in the histories of humankind to tell stories about the origins of human goodness and evil, human culture and social contracts. Myths are often about human and ...
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... divine knowledge which have silenced women within the long tradition of western philosophy. Her standpoint as an outsider to Anglo-American philosophy of religion sheds light on the narrowness of the vision of twentieth-century ...
... divine knowledge which have silenced women within the long tradition of western philosophy. Her standpoint as an outsider to Anglo-American philosophy of religion sheds light on the narrowness of the vision of twentieth-century ...
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... divine revelations, or 'showings' of divine love.39 Her medieval culture would have strongly resisted her effort to write and especially to teach as a woman. This resistance would have been justified by appeals to Pauline writings in ...
... divine revelations, or 'showings' of divine love.39 Her medieval culture would have strongly resisted her effort to write and especially to teach as a woman. This resistance would have been justified by appeals to Pauline writings in ...
Contents
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2 Gender in Philosophy of Religion | 29 |
3 Gendering Theism and Feminism | 49 |
4 Philosophy on and off the Continent | 65 |
5 Gendering Love in Philosophy of Religion | 89 |
6 Restoring Faith in Reason | 113 |
7 Feminist Philosophy of Religion | 139 |
8 Gender Justice and Unselfish Attention | 155 |
9 Revisioning Love and Reason | 175 |
Diversity and Gender | 205 |
Bibliography | 223 |
Index | 241 |
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