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RESTORATIVE FEMINISM AND RELIGIOUS TRADITION

RESTORATIVE FEMINISM AND RELIGIOUS TRADITION 1. Carol Gilligan, “Remembering Larry” (10th Annual Kohlberg Memorial Lecture, paper presented at annual conference of the Association for Moral Education, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, November 1997). 11:1 Copyright 2005 by Duke University Press engines of modern high culture; and there are many premodern precedents.2 Jewish prophetic and liturgical sources, for example, speak of a return in which “our days will be renewed as before”—the words allude to restoration of a condition unspecified but presupposed to be desirable. No one knows, in other words, what a restoration of the past, were such a thing possible, might entail; but in the cultural movement I am referring to, it is assumed that restoration would “correct” the present state of culture. Many religious traditions demand of their scholars that any new idea or innovative practice be justified in terms of old ideas and practices. The earlier the historical source to which an idea or practice can be traced, the greater the authority it possesses upon presentation. This approach to change may involve a complicated tracing of lineage through the ages or else, more simply, “I heard from thus-and-such in the name of so-and-so”—but in either case, the perception of the past http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Common Knowledge Duke University Press

RESTORATIVE FEMINISM AND RELIGIOUS TRADITION

Hartman, Tova
Common Knowledge , Volume 11 (1) – Jan 1, 2005
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1. Carol Gilligan, “Remembering Larry” (10th Annual Kohlberg Memorial Lecture, paper presented at annual conference of the Association for Moral Education, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, November 1997). 11:1 Copyright 2005 by Duke University Press engines of modern high culture; and there are many premodern precedents.2 Jewish prophetic and liturgical sources, for example, speak of a return in which “our days will be renewed as before”—the words allude to restoration of a condition unspecified but presupposed to be desirable. No one knows, in other words, what a restoration of the past, were such a thing possible, might entail; but in the cultural movement I am referring to, it is assumed that restoration would “correct” the present state of culture. Many religious traditions demand of their scholars that any new idea or innovative practice be justified in terms of old ideas and practices. The earlier the historical source to which an idea or practice can be traced, the greater the authority it possesses upon presentation. This approach to change may involve a complicated tracing of lineage through the ages or else, more simply, “I heard from thus-and-such in the name of so-and-so”—but in either case, the perception of the past

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