Acknowledgements
Foreword
1. American Women as Religious Thinkers:Dissenting Participants
2. Ambivalence as a New Religious Virtue: The Creativity of Women's
Contradictory Experiences of Their Traditions
3. The Immanence of the Sacred: Women's Religious Thought Comes
Down to Earth
4. The Revelatory Power of the Ordinary and the Ordinariness of the
Sacred
5. "Relationship" and its Complexities:Inhabiting the Cosmic
Web
6. Healing and Women's Theological Creativity: Strategies of
Hope
Epilogue: *Apres le deluge* What's Next?
Endnotes
Index
An exploration of five central ideas in the theological imagination of women
Since there is not a long bibliography of works addressing the
religious thought of women, Bednarowski (United Theol. Seminary of
the Twin Cities) plows new ground. Although intimating that she
speaks for all American women, Bednarowski primarily focuses on the
thought of liberal Christian feminists writing in the last decade
of the 20th century. In surveying a wide range of popular and
scholarly publications, Bednarowski discerns five common themes or
characteristics and devotes a chapter to each. According to
Bednarowski, women's religious thought is (1) ambivalent, because
it is produced by people who feel that they are both insiders and
outsiders in their traditions, (2) characterized by an awareness of
the immanence of the sacred, (3) down—to—earth and celebratory of
the revelatory power of the ordinary, (4) characterized by themes
of relationship and relatedness, and (5) pervaded by the idea of
healing. Bednarowski argues that these themes constitute something
of a worldview shared by women from a diverse range of communities,
and her extensive examples seem to support this argument. Scholars
will find that this exploration of women's public discourse about
religious ideas helps to reveal the common threads that run through
women's writing. Graduate students; faculty and researchers.
*Choice*
Scholars will find that this exploration of women's public
discourse about religious ideas helps to reveal the common threads
that run through women's writing.May 2000
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