Feminist Poetics of the Sacred: Creative Suspicions

by Frances Devlinglass and Lyn McCredden

This book is an interdisciplinary and multicultural study of ancient and contemporary texts that encode women's spirituality. The contributors, using modern critical methods such as feminist theory, poststructuralism, and the new historicisms, examine how the ideas in these texts are being reworked in different religious traditions. The volume encompasses both contemporary and historical contexts, tracing the roles, actions, writings, and beliefs...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195144694
• ISBN13: 9780195144697
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"