Acute melancholia and other essays mysticism, history, and the study of religion /

Hollywood, Amy (1963-....)

Acute melancholia and other essays mysticism, history, and the study of religion / [Texte imprimé] : Amy Hollywood - New York : Columbia University Press, cop. 2016 - 1 vol. (398 p.) ; 24 cm - Gender, theory, and religion .

Bibliogr. p. 375-376

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

978-0-231-15643-1

Christianity--Philosophy Experience (Religion) Mysticism Religion--Philosophy

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