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Finding Our Feminist Ways in Natural Philosophy and Religious Thought

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Eugenie Gatens-Robinson
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Abstract

The essay explores the connection between ecological wisdom and feminist spiri' tuality. It takes a careful look at the difficulties that feminist thinkers have had in establishing such wisdom through a tradition of ethics focused on intrinsic value, a tradition of scientific thinking in which the knower is distanced from nature, and Western religious thinking in which both the feminine and nature are taken as profane. The suggestion is made that the resources of American Naturalism may provide a truly spiritual means to the needed transformation.

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Revisioning Religious Experience
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Hypatia , Volume 9 , Issue 4: Special Issue: Feminist Philosophy of Religion , Fall 1994 , pp. 207 - 228
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Copyright © 1994 by Hypatia, Inc.

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