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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 | |