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008 930721s1994 nyu b 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aBL604.B64$bC66 1994
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100 1 $aCooey, Paula M.,$d1945-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85180857
245 10 $aReligious imagination and the body :$ba feminist analysis /$cPaula M. Cooey.
260 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c1994.
263 $a9405
300 $axiii, 184 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 00 $g1.$tIntroduction -- $g2.$tThe Body and Gender -- $g3.$tThe Body as Site for Religious Imagination -- $g4.$tThe Body as Sign for Religious Imagination -- $g5.$tSite, Sign, and Imagination -- $g6.$tMapping Religion.
520 1 $a"In recent years feminist scholarship has increasingly focused on the importance of the body and its representations in virtually every social, cultural, and intellectual context. Many have argued that because women are more closely identified with their bodies than men are, they have access to privileged and different kinds of knowledge. In this landmark new book, Paula Cooey offers a new perspective on the significance of the body in the context of religious life and practice." "Religious Imagination and the Body addresses such vital concerns as the role of the body in religious experience, the impact of gender or sexual difference on religious experience and its authority, and the viability of women's religious experience as an authoritative alternative to male-centered and male-dominated culture. Cooey argues an innovative position that is both critical and constructive, thus contributing to the ongoing debates in contemporary theory of religion, philosophical theology, and feminist theory." "Building on the pathbreaking work of Elaine Scarry in The Body in Pain, Cooey looks at a wide range of evidence, from the Argentine prison narrative of Alicia Partnoy, to the novels of Toni Morrison and the paintings of Frida Kahlo. Using current social theory and critique, cognitive psychology, contemporary fiction and art, and women's accounts of religious experience, Cooey relates the reality of sentience to the social construction of reality." "Analyzing the female body as a metaphor for alternative knowledge, Cooey considers the significance of physical pain and pleasure to the religious imagination, and the relations between sentience, sensuality, and female subjectivity. This important study brings forward a sophisticated new understanding of the religious importance of the body, at the same time laying the foundations of a feminist theory of religion."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aHuman body$xReligious aspects.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85015228
650 0 $aImagination$xReligious aspects.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064467
650 0 $aWomen$xReligious aspects.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147268
650 0 $aFeminist theory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90002282
600 10 $aPartnoy, Alicia,$d1955-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86124449
600 10 $aMorrison, Toni.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80131379
600 10 $aKahlo, Frida.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82031966
650 0 $aPhilosophical theology.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85100848
852 00 $bbar$hBL604.B64$iC66 1994
852 00 $bglx$hBL604.B64$iC66 1994