Pantheologies Gods, Worlds, Monsters.
- New York : Columbia University Press, (c)2018.
- 1 online resource (319 pages)
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Intro; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction: The Matter with Pantheism; Panic; 1. Pan; Panterruption; 2. Hyle; Panfusion; 3. Cosmos; Pancarnation; 4. Theos; Pandemonium; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Mary-Jane Rubenstein provides a conceptual genealogy of pantheisms. What makes pantheism "monstrous"-at once repellent and seductive-is that it scrambles the raced and gendered distinctions that Western philosophy and theology insist on drawing between activity and passivity, spirit and matter, animacy and inanimacy, and creator and created.