Analyzing the female body as a metaphor for alternative knowledge, Cooey considers the significance of physical pain and pleasure to the religious imagination, and the relations between sentience, sensuality, and female subjectivity. This important study brings forward a sophisticated new understanding of the religious importance of the body, at the same time laying the foundations of a feminist theory of religion.

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Although Christianity began as a dissident movement and in the Reformation recreated itself through dissent, traditional Christianity has always been uneasy with dissent and pluralism. Whether directed against the church itself or the larger society, dissent has been most often met with ridicule and persecution.Lively and engaging, Cooey's highly relevant book retrieves and valorizes the reforming impulse from Reformation times, follows it back through the early church's internal and external battles, and traces it back to Jesus himself. She shows how a strong affirmation of dissent as a Christian duty can inform a more open and faithful church as well as a publically relevant theology and ethics.

Intended to provide a corrective to the general neglect of the central importance of nature and the apocalyptic dimension in Edwards' theology, this text traces the movement of his thought from his own religious experience to God, anthropology, Christology, soteriology, typology, and eschatology.