Rewriting God: Spirituality in Contemporary Australian Women's FictionRodopi, 2000 - 308 עמודים Women are rarely if ever mentioned in commentaries upon Australian Christianity and spirituality. Only exceptional women are recognized as authorities on religious matters. Why is this so? Does it matter? Don't people from the same religious tradition share similar experiences of the divine, regardless of their gender?Rewriting Godasks whether women have been writing about the divine and whether their insights are different from those contained in malestream accounts of Australian Christianity and spirituality. An analysis of the writings of popular theologians and religious commentators over the last twenty years suggests that the most popular form of spirituality among Australian theologians is Desert Spirituality. An analysis of women's autobiographical writings, however, suggests that the desert is irrelevant to many women's spiritual experiences. This book, through a close investigation of the fictions of Thea Astley, Elizabeth Jolley and Barbara Hanrahan, attempts to posit alternative forms of women's spirituality and to signal ways in which this spirituality is already being expressed.From the evidence gathered here, it becomes obvious that traditional expressions of Australian Christianity and spirituality are gender-specific and that they have functioned to deny women's religious experiences and to silence their claims to equality in the sight and service of the divine. It becomes obvious, too, that women have been developing their own forms of religious expression and that these may be expected to supplant gradually withering images of Desert Spirituality. Whether this new imagery will strengthen Australian Christianity or whether it merely marks a decline in the authority of Christianity remains a moot point. |
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Landscape and white mens dreaming | 20 |
The battler as God | 32 |
2 | 38 |
Womens spirituality | 57 |
Spiritual models | 82 |
a life a character | 91 |
Elizabeth Jolley and formal religion | 156 |
Intimations of a spiritual presence | 162 |
Resurrection and transfiguration | 195 |
In conclusion | 211 |
Towards a spiritual auto biography | 220 |
Works of the spirit | 236 |
spirituality of the everyday | 250 |
Rewriting God and religion | 257 |
Spirituality in Thea Astleys fictions | 99 |
Supporting and subverting expressions of Christianity and spirituality | 134 |
Reading Thea Astley | 142 |
In conclusion | 154 |
In conclusion | 276 |
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Aboriginal Adelaide Albatross Muff Anglican Annie Magdalene Antipodes artist Astley's books Austra Australian Christianity Australian spirituality Australian Theology Australian women Barbara Hanrahan belief Catholic characters Christ Church Claremont Street commentators critical culture David Malouf David Millikan death Desert Spirituality divine Effects of Rainshadow Elizabeth Jolley evil experience Explorer expressed faith Father female Feminism feminist Feminist Theology garden Girl God's human Hunting the Wild images Interview Jesus Jolley's Jolley's Fiction Kewpie Doll Kindness Cup Kunapipi land landscape literary lives male Meanjin Melbourne Milk and Honey moral nature Newspaper of Claremont novels Orchard Thieves Palomino Patrick White Peach Groves Penguin Raining in Mango Rainshadow religion religious Review Ringwood Scent of Eucalyptus Scobie's Riddle sense sexual Slow Natives society St Lucia Stockton story Sugar Mother suggests Sydney Morning Herald Thea Astley theologians Thornhill tion Veronica Brady Victoria Wild Pineapple woman women's spirituality writing
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 1 - Thus, when a woman comes to write a novel, she will find that she is perpetually wishing to alter the established values — to make serious what appears insignificant to a man, and trivial what is to him important.