Background
Cooey, Paula Maria was born on March 21, 1945 in Hayes, Kansas, United States. Daughter of Edward Wilton Junior and Paulina Vernett (Miller) Cooey.
(In recent years feminist scholarship has increasingly foc...)
In recent years feminist scholarship has increasingly focused on the importance of the body and its representations in virtually every social, cultural, and intellectual context. Many have argued that because women are more closely identified with their bodies, they have access to privileged and different kinds of knowledge than men. In this landmark new book, Paula Cooey offers a different perspective on the significance of the body in the context of religious life and practice. Building on the pathbreaking work of Elaine Scarry in The Body in Pain, Cooey looks at a wide range of evidence, from the Argentine prison narrative of Alicia Partnoy, to the novels of Toni Morrison and the paintings of Frida Kahlo. Drawing on current social theory and critique, cognitive psychology, contemporary fiction and art, and women's accounts of religious experience, Cooey relates the reality of sentience to the social construction of reality. Beginning with an examination of the female body as a metaphor for alternative knowledge, she considers the significance of physical pain and pleasure to the religious imagination, and the relations between sentience, sensuality, and female subjectivity. Cooey succeeds in bringing 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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To what kinds of lives does God call us as members of families--and as citizens of a secular, pluralistic republic? In this important book, Paula Cooey takes a hard look at the American family in the late twentieth century. In particular, she deals with the notion of family values. She asks importance questions: What and who are we valuing when we talk about family values? What constitutes a family? What do Christians owe their families and the families of others according to Scripture and church teaching? Does Scripture provide us with a blueprint for the ideal family? What are the implications for how we think about family in how we think about the differences between males and females? What role should family values play in shaping political vision?
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Cooey, Paula Maria was born on March 21, 1945 in Hayes, Kansas, United States. Daughter of Edward Wilton Junior and Paulina Vernett (Miller) Cooey.
Bachelor in Philosophy, University Georgia, 1968. Master of Science in Theology, Harvard Divinity School, 1974. Doctor of Philosophy in Religion, Harvard University, 1981.
Research/resource associate in women's studies and religion, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1980-1981; assistant professor religion, Trinity U., San Antonio, 1981-1987; associate professor, Trinity U., San Antonio, 1987-1993; professor, Trinity U., San Antonio, since 1993.
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Active Emily's List, Washington. Member American Academy Religion (board directors 1994-1998, regional president 1990-1991), Society for Scientific Study Religion, Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies (board directors 1991-1995), Southwest Commission on Religious Studies (president 1993-1994), American Council Learned Societies (AAR delegate 1994-1997), American Civil Liberties Union, American Association of University Professors, Americans United for Separation of Religion and State.
Married Philip Charles Nichols Junior, June 4, 1967. 1 child, Benjamin Charles.