TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tatman, Lucy
AB  - Part religious studies, part feminist theory, part philosophy, part indescribable: such is Numinous Subjects. Described by the author as ‘a kaleidoscopic exploration of why three gendered figures of the sacred matter within western culture,’ the experience of reading this text truly is akin to gazing through a constantly turning kaleidoscope. Images, concepts, phrases and quotes are continually revisited, recombined, though never repeated in quite the same way. From these tumbling constellations arises a new understanding and wary appreciation of the figures of the virgin, the mother, and the whore. Drawing on the insights of thinkers as diverse as Rudolph Otto, Julia Kristeva, Simone de Beauvoir, and Martin Buber, Numinous Subjects simultaneously expands and focuses our attention on the myth of the sacred and its implications for female subjects in western culture today.
DO  - 10.26530/OAPEN_459396
ID  - OAPEN ID: 459396
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 848112289
KW  - philosophy
KW  - feminist theology
KW  - religion
KW  - Ethics
KW  - Immanence
KW  - Julia Kristeva
KW  - Logic
KW  - Numinous
KW  - Semiotics
KW  - Transcendence (religion)
KW  - Western culture
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/3c1835a2-f8c1-4b83-887d-ea8144287905/459396.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33676
PB  - ANU Press
PP  - Canberra
PY  - 2007
TI  - Numinous Subjects : Engendering the Sacred in Western Culture, An Essay
ER  - 
