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Thursday, 31 May 2007 12:29
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Rock musician Joan Osborne releases "(What If God Was) One of Us," a Grammy-nominated hit song that invites us to imagine God as "a slob like one of us,""just a stranger on the bus" (Relish 1995). In 1998, former Fugees lead singer Lauryn Hill invokes the doctrine of the Incarnation when she sings of an angel coming to her and announcing the imminent birth of her "man-child." ("To Zion,"The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill 1998). These very different but related expressions are part of an interesting array of women's music that brings ancient religious concepts into conversation with contemporary feminism about the meaning of embodied life. Contemporary women's rock music, mostly unknowingly, it seems, gives voice to the intersection of two important intellectual trends—feminist theory's analysis of the cultural construction of female bodies, and feminist theology's reclaiming of embodied experience as a source of sacred meaning and power. In the process, this music is establishing itself as an important, if ambiguous, site of "third wave" feminist spirituality.
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