Religion, Feminism, and Idoloclasm: Being and Becoming in the Women's Liberation Movement

ISBN-13: 9780367786892 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 296 str.

Melissa Raphael

Opis

Examining a period of feminist theory, theology, and culture from about 1965 to 2010, this book shows that secular, as well as Christian, Jewish, and post-Christian feminists drew on ancient and modern tropes of redemption from slavery to idols or false ideas as a means of overcoming the alienation of women’s being from their own becoming.

Spis treści

Prologue. Woman: The World’s First Idol;  Introduction  1 The Appearance of the Feminine  2 Idolized Women  3 Impossible Women  4 Idoloclasm and Christian Feminist Theology  5 Second Wave Feminist Christology and Mariology in a Counter-Idolatrous Mode  6 Jewish Feminist Idol-Breakers  7 Jewish Feminist Theology out of the Idoloclastic Sources of Judaism  8 From Broken Idols, a Goddess Feminist Self  9 After Idoloclasm

O autorze

Melissa Raphael is Professor of Jewish Theology at the University of Gloucestershire, UK and teaches modern Jewish thought at Leo Baeck College, London. Her previous books include Rudolf Otto and the Idea of the Holy (1997), The Female Face of God in Auschwitz (2003), and Judaism and the Visual Image (2009).