Silence and Absence: Feminist Philosophical Implications of Mormonism’s Heavenly Mother

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism) affirms the existence of a divine woman, a Heavenly Mother as a companion to a Heavenly Father. Feminist philosophers of religion have argued for the importance of a divine feminine as a challenge to patriarchal religion, yet the Heavenly M...

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Auteur principal: Petrey, Taylor G. 1976- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Publié: [2020]
Dans: Sophia
Année: 2020, Volume: 59, Numéro: 1, Pages: 57-68
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophie de la religion
FD Théologie contextuelle
KDH Sectes d’origine chrétienne
NBC Dieu
Sujets non-standardisés:B Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
B Silence
B MORMON feminism
B Performativity
B Heavenly Mother
B Mormonism
B Divine Feminine
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Résumé:The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism) affirms the existence of a divine woman, a Heavenly Mother as a companion to a Heavenly Father. Feminist philosophers of religion have argued for the importance of a divine feminine as a challenge to patriarchal religion, yet the Heavenly Mother tradition has not created an egalitarian religion in Mormonism. Mormon feminists have charged that relative silence about this teaching is a primary cause of this discrepancy. This paper explores the performative dynamics of speech and silence and their relationship to presence and absence in a feminist analysis of power.
ISSN:1873-930X
Contient:Enthalten in: Sophia
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s11841-020-00770-z