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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821845303321

Titolo

Feminist poetics of the sacred : creative suspicions / / edited by Frances Devlin-Glass, Lyn McCredden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-773913-X

1-280-53167-3

1-4237-6333-5

0-19-534932-6

1-60256-859-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 p.)

Collana

American Academy of Religion cultural criticism series

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

200/.82

Soggetti

Women and religion

Feminist literary criticism

Religious literature - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2001.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Inside and outside the traditions: the changing shapes of feminist spiritualities / Frances Devlin-Glass, Lyn McCredden -- ; The goddess returns: ecofeminist reconfigurations of gender, nature, and the sacred / Kate Rigby -- Black truth, white fiction: the recognition of aboriginal women's rites / Anne Pattel-Gray -- Between worlds: approaching the indigenous sacred in Australia / Lyn McCredden -- "Inanna and the Huluppu Tree": an ancient Mesopotamian narrative of goddess demotion / Johanna H. Stuckey -- ; The sovereignty as co-lordship: a contemporary feminist rereading of the female sacred in the Ulster Cycle / Frances Devlin-Glass -- Between the Tariqa and the Shari©<U+00be>a: the making of the female self / Amila Butorovic -- "Merely a love poem?" Common sense, suspicion, and the Song of songs / Mary Dove -- Mother, maiden, child: gender as performance in The book of Margery Kempe / Clare Bradford -- Helen and Hermes' conceit / Stephen Curkpatrick -- ; The heavenly woman and the dragon: rereadings of Revelation 12 / Dorothy A. Lee -- Working with



Greek mythology: a journey through images / Diane Fahey -- ; The future of feminist spiritualities / Frances Devlin-Glass, Lyn McCredden.

Sommario/riassunto

This is a multicultural study of ancient & contemporary texts that encode women's spirituality. It includes both contemporary & historical contexts, tracing the roles, actions & beliefs of women in pre-Christian, Christian & Islamic contexts.