RT Article
T1 Erotic desire as a woman's way of knowing the divine: reading Arishima Taeko, A Certain Woman
JF Body and religion
VO 4
IS 1
SP 82
OP 104
A1 Cho, Haruka Umetsu
LA English
PB Equinox Publishing
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1819705714
AB This article examines a Japanese novel written by Arishima Takeo, A Certain Woman (first published in Japanese in 1919), in order to explore women's ways of knowing, focusing on the body and erotic desire as a locus where the human-God relationship is embodied. This novel shows a way of knowing the Divine beyond language and the sanitized notion of love, describing the life of a modern Japanese Christian woman who refuses both Japanese colonial woman-hood and Christian (Victorian) sexual ethics. Depicting the divine presence in the protagonist's promiscuous and stigmatized body, Arishima asks theological questions about the role of eros and violence in the pursuit of God, and seeks radically free God and humans who may go beyond any existing boundaries.
K1 Arishima Takeo
K1 Feminist Theology
K1 Gender and Sexuality
DO 10.1558/bar.17910