Religious Imagination and the Body
A Feminist Analysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20033667 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paula M Cooey (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Pages | 184 |
| Publication date | 1994-05-12 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Religious imagination and the body (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressNew York, NY (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780195087352.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4388435693 |
| ISBN | 9780195087352 |
| Open Library | OL1420681M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
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, they have access to privileged and different kinds of knowledge than men. In this landmark new book, Paula Cooey offers a different perspective on the significance of the body in the context of religious life and practice. 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. Drawing on 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. Beginning with an examination of the female body as a metaphor for alternative knowledge, she considers the significance of physical pain and pleasure to the religious imagination, and the relations between sentience, sensuality, and female subjectivity. Cooey succeeds in bringing 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
Aesthetics · Art · Context (archaeology) · Epistemology · Literature · Metaphor · Narrative · Objectification · Pleasure · Scholarship · Sentience · Sociology · Subjectivity · Gender Studies · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion and Society in Latin America · Religion and Society Interactions · Theological Perspectives and Practices · Alicia Partnoy (1955-) · Body, Human · Feminist theory · frida Kahlo (1910-1954) · Human body · Imagination · Kahlo, Frida · Morrison, Toni · Philosophical theology · Religious aspects · Religious aspects of Imagination · Religious aspects of the Human body · Religious aspects of Women · Toni Morrison (1931-2019) · Woman (Theology) · Women
Struggling bodies and body struggles
Marks of His Wounds
A Search for Sacred Bodies
Scars and Stigmata
Religious Mapping, Epistemic Risk and Archival Adventure in Athambile Masola's Ilifa
Postsecular Sex? Secularisation and Religious Change in the History of Sexuality in Britain
Body connections
Boundaries are Made for Crossing
Sandplay and Women's Spirituality
Material Bodies and the Transformation of the Social
Religious Coping Reconsidered, Part Two
Fiddling While Rome Burns
She Climbs Toward the Light
Religion and Eating Disorders
Making of Our Lives a Study
She offered herself up
Pain, Gender, and Systems of Belief and Practice
| Citations per year | 0.61 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1998 - 2023 (26) |
| Highly cited | No |