ISBN:
9783839465325
,
9783837665321
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (276 p.)
Series Statement:
Studien der Kulturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft
Keywords:
Philosophy
;
Gender
;
Catholicism
;
Teresa of Avila
;
Portugal
;
Mysticism
;
Religion
;
Cultural History
;
Religious Studies
;
History of Religion
;
Gender Studies
;
Romance Studies
;
Cultural Studies
;
thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRA Religion: general
;
thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRA Religion: general::QRAX History of religion
;
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups
Abstract:
Are anxiety or dread negative stages before freedom, a confrontation with humans' own mortality and finitude? Joana Serrado inaugurates anxiousness as a category of mystical knowledge in this innovative historical and philosophical study. Based on the life and mystical writings of Joana de Jesus, a Cistercian nun, intellectual disciple of Teresa of Avila, this study shows the cultural embeddedness of anxiousness: a feeling akin to the Portuguese term »saudade« (yearning, Sehnsucht). A mystical project that reshapes feminist principles of autonomy, agency and desire
Note:
English
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