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When God Becomes Goddess - The Transformation of American Religion (Hardcover)
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When God Becomes Goddess - The Transformation of American Religion (Hardcover)
Series: Religious Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
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In this closely argued philosophical study, theologian Richard
Grigg claims that faith in the United States is changing as
traditional religious ideas struggle to survive in a dynamic
environment. Whereas a large percentage of Americans still report
that they believe in God, Grigg shows that this belief can no
longer mean what it used to mean: modern science has taken over
much of the cognitive territory that used to belong to religion,
and uniquely contemporary problems of theodicy threaten the
believer's sense that God is in fact in his heaven, while all is
right with the world. Increasingly, American religion survives only
if relegated to the private sphere. And yet a God that is relegated
to the private sphere cannot be the God that has formed the
centrepiece of the major religions of the West. When God Becomes
Goddess suggests that one way in which Americans may keep the
traditional Western idea of God alive - paradoxically - is to
embrace the Goddess of feminist theology. Collecting a variety of
feminist theologies under the rubric of enactment theology, Grigg
demonstrates how these theologies offer much more than a critique
of patriarchy; indeed, her gender aside, Grigg suggests that the
Goddess may create an avenue through which the concept of God might
be rescued from the pressing forces of secularization.
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