ABSTRACT

Religion in French Feminist Thought: Critical Perspectives brings together some of the leading modern religious responses to major French feminist writings on religion. It considers central figures such as Hélène Cixous, Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigaray and Catherine Clément, and its focus on questions of divinity, subjectivity, and ethics provides an accessible introduction to an area of growing philosophical interest.
Illustrating the ways in which French feminism has become a valuable tool in feminist efforts to rethink religion, and responding to its promise as an intellectual resource for religious philosophy in the future, Religion in French Feminist Thought is ideal both for independent use and as a companion book to French Feminists on Religion (Routledge, 2001).

chapter |9 pages

Introduction

On Old and New Tablets1

part One|72 pages

On Luce Irigaray

chapter Chapter 2|12 pages

Divining Differences

Irigaray and Religion

chapter Chapter 3|10 pages

Corporeality and Divinity

Irigaray and the Problem of the Ideal

chapter Chapter 4|17 pages

Irigaray’s Eastern Explorations

chapter Chapter 5|15 pages

Divine Women and The Nehanda Mhondoro

Strengths and Limitations of the Sensible Transcendental in a Post-Colonial World of Religious Women

part Two|59 pages

On Julia Kristeva

chapter Chapter 6|16 pages

The Tower and The Chalice

Julia Kristeva and the Story of Santa Barbara

chapter Chapter 7|16 pages

Our Vital Necessity

Julia Kristeva’s Theory of Sacrifice

chapter Chapter 8|14 pages

‘Death, then, how could I Yield to it?’

Kristeva’s Mortal Visions

chapter Chapter 9|11 pages

Kristeva’s Melancholia

Not Knowing How to Lose

part Three|46 pages

On Hélène Cixous and Catherine Clément

chapter Chapter 11|14 pages

The Thealogy of Hélène Cixous

chapter Chapter 12|13 pages

Paradise Reconsidered

Hélène Cixous and the Bible’s Other Voice

part Four|14 pages

On Monique Wittig

chapter Chapter 13|12 pages

Religion in the Fiction of Monique Wittig