Overkill: Why Excess and Conflict are both Sexy and Sacred
In popular understandings, both excess and conflict are understood as compelling, even ‘sexy’. Drawing from the perspectives of feminist theory, history, and theology, I consider the ways that patriarchal cultures eroticize possession, domination, and taboo violation, leading to this popular apprehe...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Equinox Publ.
2007
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Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture
Year: 2007, Volume: 1, Issue: 3, Pages: 277-292 |
| Further subjects: | B
gender and religion
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| Summary: | In popular understandings, both excess and conflict are understood as compelling, even ‘sexy’. Drawing from the perspectives of feminist theory, history, and theology, I consider the ways that patriarchal cultures eroticize possession, domination, and taboo violation, leading to this popular apprehension. I critique some of the ways that patriarchal conceptions of sex and God, both founded in a gendered conception of power as domination, intersect to influence significantly and foment harms including environmental devastation. |
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| ISSN: | 1749-4915 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/jsrnc.v1i3.277 |