Catholicism : end or beginning? / Mary Daly ; edited by Meg Stapleton Smith.

Author/creator Daly, Mary contributor
Other author Smith, Meg Stapleton, editor.
Format Book
PublicationCambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2026.
Copyright Date©2026
Descriptionxx, 348 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Catholicism : end or beginning / Mary Daly -- The many minds of Mary Daly / Mary E. Hunt -- Reformist Catholicism : the road not taken for Mary Daly / Lisa Sowle Cahill -- Feminist intrigues at the limits of schizoid theology / Siobhán Garrigan -- Abstraction, mysticism, and revolution : from Catholicism : end or beginning to Beyond God the Father and Pure lust / Jennifer Rycenga -- Catholicism : end or beginning? : an open-ended journey toward a theology of difference / Zahra Moballegh -- A more Dalyan Christianity / Xochitl Alvizo.
Abstract "Has Catholicism reached its end or is there hope for a genuine new beginning? This remarkably retrieved - hitherto lost and unpublished - work by iconic radical thinker Mary Daly, complemented by reflections from six preeminent feminist writers, raises profound questions that seemingly led to Daly's final break with the Catholic Church"-- Provided by publisher.
Abstract "Publication in 1968 of The Church and the Second Sex turned Mary Daly into a leading -- arguably the first -- Catholic feminist theologian. She then, in 1972, preached an incendiary sermon at Harvard Memorial Church, 'left behind centuries of darkness,' as she put it, and walked out of patriarchal religion. Daly next established herself, with Beyond God the Father (1973), as a post-Christian feminist philosopher. In between these trailblazing writings, she began to draft another book entitled Catholicism: End or Beginning? In the moment that she abandoned the text, she also seemingly renounced the institutional Roman Catholic Church. This volume comprises that lost, unfinished manuscript -- remarkably rediscovered -- augmented by complementary chapters from six preeminent feminist writers. Though partial, it completes the corpus of an iconic figure in radical liberationist and Catholic thought, delving deep into the mind of a woman who dared to leap into uncharted territories of faith and philosophical imagination." -- Publisher's website.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 338-345) and index.
Issued in other formOnline version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Catholicism (Cambridge University Press) Catholicism Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2025 9781009180641
LCCN 2025023544
ISBN9781009180634
ISBN1009180630 hardcover
ISBN9781009180627 paperback
ISBN1009180622 paperback
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