Acute melancholia and other essays: mysticism, history, and the study of religion
Acute melancholia -- History -- Feminist studies in Christian spirituality -- On gender, agency, and the divine in religious historiography -- Reading as self-annihilation: on Marguerite Porete's Mirror of simple souls -- Sexuality -- Sexual desire, divine desire; or, queering the beguines -- T...
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Format: | Print Book |
Language: | English |
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New York
Columbia University Press
[2016]
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In: | Year: 2016 |
Series/Journal: | Gender, theory, and religion
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Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Christianity
/ Mysticism
/ Religious philosophy
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Further subjects: | B
Experience (Religion)
B Mysticism B Religion Philosophy B Christianity Philosophy |
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Table of Contents |
Summary: | Acute melancholia -- History -- Feminist studies in Christian spirituality -- On gender, agency, and the divine in religious historiography -- Reading as self-annihilation: on Marguerite Porete's Mirror of simple souls -- Sexuality -- Sexual desire, divine desire; or, queering the beguines -- The normal, the queer, and the Middle Ages -- "That glorious slit": Irigaray and the medieval devotion to Christ's side wound -- Practice -- Inside out: Beatrice of Nazareth and her hagiographer -- Performativity, citationality, ritualization -- Practice, belief, and feminist philosophy of religion -- Love of neighbor and love of God: Martha and Mary in the Christian Middle Ages |
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Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-376) and index |
ISBN: | 023115643X |