Rethinking Women's Suffering And Holiness: Gloria Anzaldúa's "Holy Relics"
In the poem, "Holy Relics," Chicana theorist Gloria Anzaldúa (1942-2004) interrogated Christian imaginaries of female holiness by troubling existing stories that locate holiness in passivity, suffering, and silence. Creatively envisioning the tearing apart of Teresa of Ávila's body fo...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Indiana University Press
[2020]
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Journal of feminist studies in religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 36, Issue: 2, Pages: 7-24 |
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Anzalduá, Gloria 1942-2004, Cihuatlyotl, woman alone
/ Teresa, de Jesús 1515-1582
/ Suffering
/ Holiness (motif)
/ Woman
/ Christianity
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| IxTheo Classification: | AA Study of religion AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion CB Christian life; spirituality FD Contextual theology |
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Women
B Anzaldúa B Teresa of Ávila B Holiness B Suffering |
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| Summary: | In the poem, "Holy Relics," Chicana theorist Gloria Anzaldúa (1942-2004) interrogated Christian imaginaries of female holiness by troubling existing stories that locate holiness in passivity, suffering, and silence. Creatively envisioning the tearing apart of Teresa of Ávila's body for the sake of collecting relics, Anzaldúa showed how this notion of holiness can lead to an objectification of women's bodies and an attempt to manipulate their power. Furthermore, she revealed how conceptions of wholeness/holiness already carry fragmentation within them. By reimagining wholeness and fragmentation, Anzaldúa offered a way of rethinking suffering, one in which brokenness opens a space through which new identities and ways of being can emerge. |
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| ISSN: | 1553-3913 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of feminist studies in religion
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