A Feminist Philosophy of Religion The Rationality and Myths of Religious Belief
by Anderson, Pamela SueEdition: 1st
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Pub. Date: 1997-12-08
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
Bridging the traditionally separate domains of analytic and Continental philosophies, Pamela Sue Anderson presents for the first time, a feminist framework for studying the philosophy of religion.
Author Biography
Pamela Sue Anderson is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sunderland.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| Introduction: Background Matters | |
| Reason, Belief, and What is Excluded | |
| Sex/Gender and Reason | |
| Contemporary Philosophy of Religion | |
| Thinking from the Lives and Beliefs of Others | |
| Anticipating Configurations and Refigurations | |
| Epistemological Frameworks of Belief | |
| The Rationality of Religious Belief: Reason in 'Crisis' | |
| The So-Called Crisis of Rationality | |
| Religious Belief, Experience, and Epistemetic Duty | |
| The Empiricist Privileging of Formal Rationality | |
| Epistemological Frameworks of Belief | |
| Questioning the Neutrality of Rationality | |
| Refiguring Rationality | |
| A Critique of Reason | |
| Feminists and the Rationality of Belief | |
| Strong Objectivity | |
| Rationality and Epistemological Frameworks | |
| Accounts of Objectivity | |
| Objectivity as Too Weak | |
| Strong Objectivity | |
| The Subject of Feminist Standpoint Epistemology | |
| What is Still Lacking for Feminist Belief | |
| A Critical Coda | |
| Feminists and the Rationality of Belief | |
| Female Desire | |
| New Content for Belief | |
| Desire and the Rational Subject | |
| Sexually Specific Discourse and the Numinous | |
| Post-Patriarchal Philosophy and Religion | |
| On the Buried Maternal | |
| A Feminist Modification of Rational Belief | |
| Refigurations of Belief | |
| Myth, Mimesis, and Religious Belief | |
| Reason, Embodiment and Belief | |
| Rethinking Myth | |
| Defining Mimesis | |
| Sexual Identity in Religion | |
| Mimetic Refigurations | |
| A Regulative Ideal: Reason and Desire | |
| Figuring the Rationality of Religious Belief: Belief, Action, and Devotion | |
| Figuring Belief: Reinventing Ourselves as Other | |
| Rational Passion and Female Desire: Yearning | |
| Reading Beliefs in Myths of Dissent | |
| Marginality and Dissent: Antigone and Mirabai | |
| Dominant Configurations of Religious Devotion | |
| Rationality of Belief Mimed | |
| Preliminary Conclusion: Yearning Assessed | |
| Conclusion | |
| Final Critical Matters | |
| Reason and the Philosophical Imaginary | |
| Enlightenment Rationality and Patriarchy | |
| Reason's 'Crisis' and the Female Symbolic | |
| Belief and the Existence of a Personal Deity | |
| The Problem of a Universal Assumption: Patriarchy | |
| Death and Woman: Destructive and Creative | |
| Summary | |
| Bibliography | |
| Index | |
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