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Feminist Poetics of the Sacred AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION CULTURAL CRITICISM SERIES SERIES EDITOR Bjorn Krondorfer, St. Mary's College of Maryland A Publication Series of The American Academy of Religion and Oxford University Press Anti-Judaism in Feminist Religious Writings Katharina von Kellenbach The Great White Flood Racism in Australia Anne Pattel-Gray On Deconstructing Life-Worlds Buddhism, Christianity, Culture Robert Magliola Cultural Otherness Correspondence with Richard Rorty, Second Edition Anindita Niyogi Balslev Cross Cultural Conversation (Initiation) Edited by Anindita Niyogi Balslev Imag(in)ing Otherness Filmic Visions of Living Together Edited by S. Brent Plate and David Jasper AAR AMERICAN ACADEMY OF REI.IGION Feminist Poetics of the Sacred Creative Suspicions EDITED BY Frances Devlin-Glass Lyn McCredden OXTORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2OOI OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Oxford New York Athens Auckland Bangkok Bogota Buenos Aires Calcutta Cape Town Chennai Dar es Salaam Delhi Florence Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Mumbai Nairobi Paris Sao Paulo Shanghai Singapore Taipei Tokyo Toronto Warsaw and associated companies in Berlin Ibadan Copyright © 2001 by The American Academy of Religion Published by Oxford University Press, Inc., 198 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 1:0016 Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise. without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Feminist poetics of the sacred : Creative suspicions / edited by Frances Devlin-Glass and Lyn McCredderi. p. cm.—(American Academy of Religion cultural criticism series) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-19-514468-6; 0-19-514469-4 (pbk.) 1. Women and religion. 2. Feminist literary criticism. 3. Religious literature—History and criticism. I. Devlin-Glass, Frances. II. McCredden, Lyn. III. Series. BL458 .C74 2001 2oo'.Sa—dear 00-063698 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 21 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper This volume is dedicated to the memory of Deborah Doxtator, a Mohawk woman, who had she lived would have been the youngest contributor to this collection. It is also dedicated to the many women who have encouraged and inspired with their prophetic courage, taking risks in the field of feminist spiritualities. To be active in this endeavor is to risk much in an often patriarchal, secular, and racist world. This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments There are many scholars whose intellectual leadership in the field of feminist spiritualities we wish to acknowledge: Frances Devlin-Glass wishes to thank Johanna Stuckey, who has been a continuing and gen- erous powerhouse of knowledge about contemporary and ancient women's religious beliefs and practices. Johanna's intellectual curiosity was sparked decades before it was fashionable for feminists to rethink the sacred. She, and many other women, have been wonderfully sup- ported (as has Frances) by the Center for Feminist Research at York, Ontario, Canada, especially by Nancy Mandell and Naomi Black, and by a male feminist scholar, Jordan Paper. Lyn McCredden acknowledges the impact of the Australian Move- ment for the Ordination of Women, which throughout the 1980s strug- gled to articulate a vision of women as equal partners in the Christian church. Many of the women in this movement continue to bear the wounds of this struggle. She would also like to thank the Faculty of the Churches of Christ Theological College in Australia for the example of their tenacious commitment to a critical, gender-conscious, and grounded education in theological studies. The editors would like to acknowledge the financial assistance of the Australian Women's Research Centre (Deakin University); the inspira- tion of many of the contributors to the 1997 Feminism and Spiritualities viii Acknowledgments Conference; the helpful staff of Deakin University Library and the Unit- ing Faculty of Theology Library (University of Melbourne); and the pro- fessional courtesy of the series editor, Professor Bjorn Krondorfer. We thank the following publishers/holders of copyright for permis- sion to reprint material: Dangeroo Press, Hale & Iremonger, Hyland House, and Dr. John E. Stanton. Extracts from "No More Boomerang," "Aboriginal Charter of Rights," and "Time is Running Out" by Oodgeroo of the tribe Noonuccal (formerly known as Kath Walker) from My Peo- ple, third edition, Jacaranda Press, © 1990, reprinted by permission of John Wiley & Sons, Austrialia. The editors thank all those women who have helped to form their passion for things of the spirit in very down-to-earth ways: Clare, Pat, Angela, Mary, Gwen, Marilyn, Ann, Doris, Wendy, Dorothy, Vicki, Vic- toria, Veronica. Finally, loving thanks to our families: Bride, Nicholas, Daniel, Terry, and Bob. Contents Contributors, xi Inside and Outside the Traditions: The Changing Shapes of Feminist Spiritualities, 3 Frances Devlin-Glass and Lyn McCredden Part I. The Politics and Poetics of the Sacred 1. The Goddess Returns: Ecofeminist Reconfigurations of Gender, Nature, and the Sacred, 23 Kate Rigby 2. Black Truth, White Fiction: The Recognition of Aboriginal Women's Rites, 55 Anne Pattel-Gray 3. Between Worlds: Approaching the Indigenous Sacred in Australia, 70 Lyn McCredden
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