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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction: Background Matters | |
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| Reason, Belief, and What is Excluded | |
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| Sex/Gender and Reason | |
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| Contemporary Philosophy of Religion | |
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| Thinking from the Lives and Beliefs of Others | |
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| Anticipating Configurations and Refigurations | |
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| Epistemological Frameworks of Belief | |
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| The Rationality of Religious Belief: Reason in 'Crisis' | |
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| The So-Called Crisis of Rationality | |
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| Religious Belief, Experience, and Epistemetic Duty | |
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| The Empiricist Privileging of Formal Rationality | |
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| Epistemological Frameworks of Belief | |
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| Questioning the Neutrality of Rationality | |
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| Refiguring Rationality | |
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| A Critique of Reason | |
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| Feminists and the Rationality of Belief | |
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| Strong Objectivity | |
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| Rationality and Epistemological Frameworks | |
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| Accounts of Objectivity | |
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| Objectivity as Too Weak | |
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| Strong Objectivity | |
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| The Subject of Feminist Standpoint Epistemology | |
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| What is Still Lacking for Feminist Belief | |
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| A Critical Coda | |
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| Feminists and the Rationality of Belief | |
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| Female Desire | |
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| New Content for Belief | |
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| Desire and the Rational Subject | |
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| Sexually Specific Discourse and the Numinous | |
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| Post-Patriarchal Philosophy and Religion | |
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| On the Buried Maternal | |
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| A Feminist Modification of Rational Belief | |
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| Refigurations of Belief | |
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| Myth, Mimesis, and Religious Belief | |
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| Reason, Embodiment and Belief | |
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| Rethinking Myth | |
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| Defining Mimesis | |
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| Sexual Identity in Religion | |
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| Mimetic Refigurations | |
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| A Regulative Ideal: Reason and Desire | |
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| Figuring the Rationality of Religious Belief: Belief, Action, and Devotion | |
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| Figuring Belief: Reinventing Ourselves as Other | |
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| Rational Passion and Female Desire: Yearning | |
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| Reading Beliefs in Myths of Dissent | |
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| Marginality and Dissent: Antigone and Mirabai | |
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| Dominant Configurations of Religious Devotion | |
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| Rationality of Belief Mimed | |
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| Preliminary Conclusion: Yearning Assessed | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Final Critical Matters | |
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| Reason and the Philosophical Imaginary | |
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| Enlightenment Rationality and Patriarchy | |
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| Reason's 'Crisis' and the Female Symbolic | |
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| Belief and the Existence of a Personal Deity | |
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| The Problem of a Universal Assumption: Patriarchy | |
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| Death and Woman: Destructive and Creative | |
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| Summary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |