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Gender, Tradition and Renewal

Gender, Tradition and Renewal - Religions and Discourse

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Publisher's Synopsis

This book brings together a number of ground-breaking essays that explore the interface of language and gender-consciousness in foundation texts of Judaism and Christianity. Using critical perspectives that derive from a feminist revaluation of traditional religious discourse, the contributors to this volume address basic questions of meaning and interpretive freedom that are integral to a contemporary reading of Scripture and liturgy. They raise such issues as the relevance of a liturgical tradition in which the Deity is addressed in exclusively masculine terms, and the continued viability of scriptural texts that reflect consistently androcentric values. In each of these essays the authors can be seen to respond to the challenge of the feminist critique of patriarchalism in the Western religious tradition, as well as to the perceived need, within contemporary Judaism and Christianity, for new interpretive models for the reading of sacred texts.

Book information

ISBN: 9783906769646
Publisher: Lang, Peter, AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissen
Imprint: P. Lang
Pub date:
DEWEY: 230.082
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 165
Weight: 242g
Height: 152mm
Width: 224mm
Spine width: 10mm