AAR Cultural Criticism Series – serie
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Feminist Poetics of the Sacred
Creative Suspicions
Häftad, 2001
1685 kr
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This book is an interdisciplinary and multicultural study of ancient and contemporary texts that encode women's spirituality. The contributors, using modern critical methods such as feminist theory, postculturalism, and the new historicisms, examine how the ideas in these texts are being reworked …
Parables for Our Time
Rereading New Testament Scholarship after the Holocaust
Inbunden, 2002
1526 kr
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Over the centuries, New Testament texts have often been read in ways that reflect and encourage anti-Semitism. For example, the parable of the "wicked husbandmen," who kill the son of their landlord in order to seize the land, has been used to blame the Jews for the death of Christ. Since the …
Moses in America
The Cultural Uses of Biblical Narrative
Inbunden, 2002
1481 kr
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This book explores the retelling of the life of Moses in three 20th-century American narratives: Moses in Red, by Lincoln Steffens; Moses, Man of the Mountain, by Zora Neale Hurston; and Cecil B. DeMille's film, The Ten Commandments. Wright's analysis reveals that the figure of Moses has strong …
Virtuous Bodies
The Physical Dimensions of Morality in Buddhist Ethics
Inbunden, 2007
913 kr
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Virtuous Bodies breaks new ground in the field of Buddhist ethics by investigating the diverse roles bodies play in ethical development. Traditionally, Buddhists assumed a close connection between body and morality. Thus Buddhist literature contains descriptions of living beings that stink with …
Asceticism and Its Critics
Historical Accounts and Comparative Perspectives
Inbunden, 2006
2627 kr
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Scholars of religion have always been fascinated by asceticism. Some have even regarded this radical way of life the withdrawal from the world, combined with practices that seriously affect basic bodily needs, up to extreme forms of self-mortification as the ultimate form of a true religious quest. …
Anti-Judaism in Feminist Religious Writings
Häftad, 1994
618 kr
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This work is the first comprehensive study of anti-Judaism in feminist religious writings. Katharina von Kellenbach provides a critical evaluation of how Judaism has been depicted in major American and West German feminist theologies, including the writings of Rosemary Radford Ruether, Carol …
The Great White Flood: Racism in Australia
Critically Appraised from an Aboriginal Historico-Theological Viewpoint
Häftad, 1998
1009 kr
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This book examines the impact of racist government legislation and policies upon the indigenous people of Australia over the last 200 years. Anne Pattel-Gray contends that racism in Australia is rooted in the long and corrupt relationship between government and church. The persistence of racism in …
On Deconstructing Life-Worlds
Buddhism, Christianity, Culture
Häftad, 1997
862 kr
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This text by an established specialist in French deconstruction, written after his many years in Asia and in the West, celebrates both Buddhist and Christian cultures and the negative but fertile differences between them.
Imag(in)ing Otherness
Filmic Visions of Living Together
Av S. Brent Plate, David Jasper
Häftad, 1999
764 kr
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Imag(in)ing Otherness explores relationships between film and religion, aesthetics and ethics. The volume examines these relationships by viewing how otherness is imaged in film and how otherness alternately might be imagined. Drawing from a variety of films from differing religious …
