Rewriting God: Spirituality in Contemporary Australian Women's FictionRodopi, 2000 - 308 ページ 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 God asks 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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Womens spirituality | 57 |
the task ahead 186 | 86 |
Spirituality in Thea Astleys fictions | 99 |
Intimations of a spiritual presence | 162 |
The human condition | 169 |
Resurrection and transfiguration | 195 |
In conclusion | 211 |
Towards a spiritual autobiography | 220 |
Works of the spirit | 236 |
spirituality of the everyday | 250 |
Rewriting God and religion | 257 |
Supporting and subverting expressions of Christianity and spirituality | 134 |
Reading Thea Astley | 142 |
In conclusion | 154 |
Elizabeth Jolley and formal religion | 156 |
In conclusion | 276 |
213 | 294 |
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184 ページ - And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.
190 ページ - And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey...
190 ページ - On the third day He rose again in fulfillment of the Scriptures; He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end.
xiii ページ - ... perpetually wishing to alter the established values - to make serious what appears insignificant to a man, and trivial what is to him important. And for that, of course, she will be criticized ; for the critic of the opposite sex will be genuinely puzzled and surprised by an attempt to alter the current scale of values, and will see in it not merely a difference of view, but a view that is weak, or trivial, or sentimental, because it differs from his own.
35 ページ - The mystery of life is not solved by success, which is an end in itself, but in failure, in perpetual struggle, in becoming.
xiii ページ - 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.
34 ページ - Before God and with God we live without God. God lets himself be pushed out of the world on to the cross. He is weak and powerless in the world, and that is precisely the way, the only way, in which he is with us and helps us.
209 ページ - ... innermost being," for the desirable and terrifying, nourishing and murderous, fascinating and abject inside of the maternal body.
93 ページ - I was completely neutered by my upbringing ... when I was eighteen or nineteen I thought to myself that the only way one could have any sort of validity was to write as a male ... I don't even know how women in general think.