ISBN:
9780231156431
,
9780231156448
Language:
English
Pages:
398 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
24 cm
Series Statement:
Gender, theory, and religion
Uniform Title:
Essays
DDC:
270
Keywords:
Christianity Philosophy
;
Experience (Religion)
;
Mysticism
;
Religion Philosophy
;
Christentum
;
Mystizismus
;
Religionsphilosophie
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Acute melancholiaHistory -- 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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-376) and index
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