The question of whether there can be a feminist philosophy of religion must necessarily address the ideas of truth and transcendence, along with their philosophic counterparts, metaphysics and epistemology. In order to answer that question, this work is an examination of the theological philosophic that has grown up around truth and transcendence that is bound and determined by custom, tradition, and fear, consequently manifests itself as unbridled dogmatism that inevitably limits our thinking and understanding. These factors, along with the effects of patriarchy and gender power dynamics found in politics, democracy, and education, serve to create a question of interrelatedness expressed in this work through the relationship between feminism, philosophy, and religion. This project undertakes an examination of those connections to allow us to understand how they create how we think, what we think, and why we think the way we do. This will be done in order to examine the opposite, which will be the primary focus of this study. The main goal is to uncover what these connections limit: ways in which we do not think, ideas which are deemed unsuitable to raise in formative ways, and the structure behind the standard, a standard which inclusive feminist philosophies of religion and theology seem to never meet or exceed. / From feminism we are made aware that what is personal is also political and philosophy provides tools for arriving at clarity in our words and thoughts. All of the ideas discussed herein create the fabric of our lives. We struggle with these ideas, not as compartmentalized entities but as an interwoven fabric that clothes our lives and our thinking. Additionally, we carry with us obligations to one another which emanate from both our rationality and our ability to understand with the heart. Consequently, the question of whether there can be a feminist philosophy of religion becomes a complex interweaving of questions that reach into the very neurosis of truth making, gender identification, and personhood creation. Thinkers discussed include John Dewey, Elizabeth Kamarck Minnich, Rosemary Radford Ruether, Daphne Hampson, Pamela Sue Anderson, Grace Jantzen, Catharine MacKinnon, and Simone Weil.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:CHENGCHI/U0003505783 |
| Creators | Dedrick, Leanne. |
| Publisher | The Claremont Graduate University. |
| Source Sets | National Chengchi University Libraries |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Rights | Copyright © nccu library on behalf of the copyright holders |
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