EAN: 9783906769646

GENDER TRADITION AND RENEWAL RELIGIONS AND DI...

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.

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