Goddess as Nature: Towards a Philosophical ThealogyAshgate Publishing, Ltd., 1 janv. 2007 - 200 pages Goddess as Nature makes a significant contribution to elucidating the meaning of a female and feminist deity at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Bridging the gap between the emergent religious discourse of thealogy - discourse about the Goddess - and a range of analytical concerns in the philosophy of religion, the author argues that thealogy is not as incoherent as many of its critics claim. By developing a close reading of the reality-claims embedded within a range of thealogical texts, one can discern an ecological and pantheistic concept of deity and reality that is metaphysically novel and in need of constructive philosophical, thealogical and scholarly engagement. Philosophical thealogy is, in an age concerned with re-conceiving nature in terms of agency, chaos, complexity, ecological networks and organicism, both an active possibility and a remarkably valuable academic, feminist and religious endeavour. |
Table des matières
Introduction | 1 |
1 | 21 |
7 | 29 |
Models of GoddessNature | 57 |
She of 10000 Names | 74 |
Cyclical and Spiralling Time | 116 |
Gynocentric Time Natality and BeingTowardsBirth | 123 |
The Metaphysics of Chaos and Complexity | 129 |
Feminist Appropriations of Chaos | 140 |
The Human Condition | 151 |
Coda | 179 |
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and/or arguably articulate aspects Battersby biological Birth-Death-Rebirth Caputi Carol Christ chaos theory chapter Charlene Spretnak claims coherence concept of deity concerns constructive Cosmic Mother cosmogonic cosmological critique Crone cyborg cycle death developed discourse divine Donna Wilshire dualisms ecofeminism ecofeminists ecological elucidate embodied emerge erotic/ecstatic ethical experience female deity feminism's feminist philosopher feminist thealogy forms Gaia theory Goddess as nature Goddess feminism Goddess feminist metaphysic Goddess feminist understanding Goddess feminist worldview Goddess feminists Goddess movement gynocentric human femaleness Ibid identified immanence interconnected Jane Caputi living male masculinist McFague meaning metaphors metaphysical worldview Monica Sjöö monotheism moral myths ontological organicism organism pantheism patriarchal perspective political postmodern principles processes reality reality-claims Rebirth relationship Religion religious sense sexual significant Sjöö and Mor social Spiral Dance spiritual Spretnak Starhawk thealogians thealogical understanding thealogically conceived thealogy of nature transcendent transformation Triple Goddess understood unity whole of nature womb women