Women's Religious Experience (RLE Women and Religion) (Routledge Library Editions: Women and Religion) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138813176 ISBN 13: 9781138813175

Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

Most of the early literature concerning women’s religious experience is about exceptional women; those who diverged from the traditional female role to become nuns, mystics or charismatic leaders. While women were permitted to be prophets and visionaries they rarely played an important part in church organisation. This paradox is explored in this book and a number of themes emerge: in particular, the dominance of male symbolism within the great religions. The question of whether men and women apprehend religious systems and signs in the same way is also explored. In considering the contemporary scene, the book is able to look at the ways in which religion affects the lives of women in different societies and in different historical periods; this gives us a larger view of the ways in which our own perceptions of ‘femaleness’ have been constructed out of the religious world views of both the past and the present.

First Published in 1983.

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Pat Holden

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138813176
• ISBN 13: 9781138813175
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 218
• Editor: Holden Pat