Divine love

<p>Divine love explores the work of Luce Irigaray from the perspective of religious studies. The book examines the development of religious themes in Irigaray's work from Speculum of the Other Woman in which she rejects traditional forms of western religion to her more recent explorations of eastern religions. Irigaray's ideas on love the divine the ethics of sexual difference and normative heterosexuality are analysed and placed in the context of the reception of her work by secular feminists such as Judith Butler Drucilla Cornell and Elizabeth Grosz as well as by feminists in Religious Studies such as Pamela Sue Anderson Ellen Armour Amy Hollywood and Grace Jantzen. <br><br>Finally Irigaray's own spiritual path which has been influenced by eastern religions specifically the disciplines of yoga and tantra in Hinduism and Buddhism is evaluated in the light of recent theoretical developments in orientalism and postcolonialism.</p>