The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism) affirms the existence of a divine woman, a Heavenly Mother as a companion to a Heavenly Father. Feminist philosophers of religion have argued for the importance of a divine feminine as a challenge to patriarchal religion, yet the Heavenly Mother tradition has not created an egalitarian religion in Mormonism. Mormon feminists have charged that relative silence about this teaching is a primary cause of this discrepancy. This paper explores the performative dynamics of speech and silence and their relationship to presence and absence in a feminist analysis of power.

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沉默与缺席：摩门教天母的女性主义哲学意蕴

耶稣基督后期圣徒教会（摩门教）肯定了一位神圣的女人的存在，天上的母亲是天父的伴侣。女权主义宗教哲学家认为神圣女性的重要性是对父权宗教的挑战，但天上母亲的传统并没有在摩门教中创造一个平等的宗教。摩门教女权主义者指责对这一教义的相对沉默是造成这种差异的主要原因。本文在女性主义的权力分析中探讨了言语和沉默的表演动态及其与在场和不在场的关系。