%0 Journal Article
%T Revisiting BISFT Summer School 1996, Marino Institute Dublin, ¡®Being Women: Ways of Knowing¡¯
%A Mary Condren
%J Feminist Theology
%@ 1745-5189
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0966735019829326
%X In her paper ¡®Mercy Not Sacrifice: Toward a Celtic Theology¡¯ delivered in Dublin in 1996, Mary Condren began by addressing the problem of ¡®a way of knowing¡¯, that is, the concept of knowing and the relationship between power and knowledge, asking, ¡®When we yearn for a Celtic or female way of knowing what is the fundamental impulse behind it, what is the longing behind it? What is the myth behind it?¡¯[1]Is it possible to look to the Celtic past for answers or does any epistemology emanating from a colonized people, (including a women¡¯s way of knowing) need to be examined carefully in regard to the inherent power politics and the question as to who owns the past? Can the myth of a pristine past be used to empower
%K Mercy
%K sacrifice
%K gender
%K Brigit
%K matrixial
%K identity
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0966735019829326