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Hobgood-Oster, Laura

 
9780252032134: Holy Dogs and Asses: Animals in the Christian Tradition
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ISBN 10 : 0252032136 ISBN 13 : 9780252032134
Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2008

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

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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Éditeur
University of Illinois Press
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0252032136
ISBN 13 
9780252032134
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
176
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