Beyond a 'God's eye view' in the study of gender and religion with a case study: religious practice and identity among strictly orthodox Jewish women
Year: 2002
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Only those occupying the positions of the dominators are self-identical, unmarked, disembodied, unmediated, transcendent, born again.It is unfortunately possible for the subjugated to lust for and even scramble into that subject position -and then disappear from view.Knowledge from the point of view of the unmarked is truly fantastic, distorted, and so irrational.The only position from which objectivity could not possibly be practised and honoured is the standpoint of the master, the Man, the One God, whose Eye produces, appropriates, and orders all difference.No one ever accused the God of monotheism of objectivity, only of indifference.The god-trick is self-identical, and we have mistaken that for creativity and knowledge, omniscience even.
Author: Chia Longman
Language: English
Topic: Gender and Feminist Studies
Subfield: Gender Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Gender equality
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2219012659