Holy Dogs and Asses: Animals in the Christian Tradition - Rilegato

Hobgood-Oster, Laura

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ISBN 10: 0252032136 ISBN 13: 9780252032134

Casa editrice: Univ of Illinois Pr, 2008

Riassunto

Analysis of animals in the history of the Christian tradition has been exclusively symbolic, but Laura Hobgood-Oster utilizes the feminist perspective in her examination of the impact of animal presence. In challenging the metaphoric reading of animals that reinforces human superiority and dominance, Holy Dogs and Asses

underscores animal agency.

 

Creatures play various active roles, which Hobgood-Oster categorizes as exemplars of piety, sources of revelation, saintly martyrs, and the primary other in an intimate relationship. Drawing from rich oral histories, legends, artwork, and popular stories of saints, this study directs our attention to the animal body--also a central concern of Christian theology and feminist criticism. Hobgood-Oster invites the reader to venture beyond the exclusive symbolic nature of animals in the Christian tradition to an awareness that we can know ourselves more fully by reference to the animal.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Laura Hobgood-Oster is the Elizabeth Root Paden Chair in Religion at Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas, and author of “She Glanceth from Earth to Heaven”: The Phenomenon of Love Mysticism among Women in Antebellum Virginia and Maryland.

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Book by HobgoodOster Laura

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Illinois Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0252032136
• ISBN 13: 9780252032134
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 176