Women and the Divine

GILLIAN HOWIE teaches at Liverpool University, UK. J'ANNINE JOBLING teaches at Livepool Hope University, UK.

"This book engages in a creative and critical way with the question of women, transcendence, and immanence; the authors delve into the possibilities and drawbacks in both contexts and illustrate that reality is a complex and never straightforward matter. The book is accessible to readers at many levels of scholarship and provokes at all levels. The journey into Women and the Divine is worth taking - enjoy the challenge." - Lisa Isherwood, Professor of Feminist Liberation Theologies and Head of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Winchester "Howie and Jobling have brought into focus, through this well-edited collection, an ambitious and profoundly challenging set of questions which emerge from an explosive interdisciplinary encounter between feminist philosophy, radical theology, and critical theory. This collection will be of major importance to all those interested in the religious roots of our fragile secularity." - Ashley Tauchert, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Exeter

• Towards a Divine in the Feminine; L.Irigaray Transcendence and Feminist Philosophy: On Avoiding Apotheosis; P.S.Anderson Transcendence, Materialism and the Re-enchantment of Nature: Towards a Theological Materialism; P.Haynes Transcendence and Immanence: Coming of Age in Philosophy - Clare Colebrook Women, Sacrifice and Transcendence; M.Joy The Return of the Goddess: Femininity and Divine Leadership; B.Metcalfe Cutting 'God' Down to Size: Transcendence and the Feminine; M.King That Which is God; D.Hampson Islamic Spirituality and the Feminine Dimension; H.Jawad Shekhinah's Kiss: Tracing the Inter-Face between Motherhood and God in the Holocaust; M.Raphael A Very Particular Body: Assessing the doctrine of Incarnation for affirming the Sacramentality of Female Embodiment; H.Bacon