Paradise Lost A Golden Age for Women

The symbolism of paradise fulfills a primordial and fundamental human need to imagine how things ought to be in relation to how they are. For this reason, it has inspired the collective imagination of our own society, among many others, for millennia. As the archetypal paradise in the Western imagin...

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Published inSanctifying Misandry pp. 21 - 59
Main Authors Young, Katherine K, Nathanson, Paul
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Montreal MQUP 01.01.2010
McGill-Queen's University Press
Subjects
Afterlife
Agricultural sciences
Agriculture
Animals
Behavioral sciences
Big game hunting
Biological sciences
Biology
Doctrinal theology
Eschatology
Female animals
Feminism
Gender identity
Gender roles
Gender studies
Horticulture
Human behavior
Human populations
Humans
Hunter gatherers
Hunting
Male animals
Mammals
Men
Paradise
Persons
Population studies
Primates
Religion
Social sciences
Systematic theology
Theology
Zoology
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ISBN0773536159
9780773536159
DOI10.1515/9780773576834-005

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Summary:The symbolism of paradise fulfills a primordial and fundamental human need to imagine how things ought to be in relation to how they are. For this reason, it has inspired the collective imagination of our own society, among many others, for millennia. As the archetypal paradise in the Western imagination, Eden has always been a metaphor that describes the ideal world. Two paradoxical features of this biblical way of thinking about paradise are of particular importance here. First, Eden exists paradoxically in a time beyond time. It provides a kind of prologue to scripture and therefore to the sacred history
ISBN:0773536159
9780773536159
DOI:10.1515/9780773576834-005