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A new companion to Hispanic mysticism / edited by Hilaire Kallendorf.

Contributor(s): Series: Brill's companions to the Christian tradition ; v. 19.Publication details: Leiden [Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 516 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004193468
  • 9004193464
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: New companion to Hispanic mysticism.DDC classification:
  • 248.2/20917561 22
LOC classification:
  • BV5077.I18 N48 2010eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Prologue / Colin Thompson -- Introduction : expanding the mystical canon / Hilaire Kallendorf -- Religious autobiography / Fernando Durán López -- Traditions, life experiences and orientations in Portugese mysticism (1515-1630) / José Adriano de Freitas Carvalho -- New world colonial Franciscan mystical practice / Francisco Morales -- The Alumbrados : Dejamiento and its practitioners / Alastair Hamilton -- Mother Juana de la Cruz : Marian visions and female preaching / Jessica A. Boon -- John of the Cross, the difficult icon / Jane Ackerman -- Teresa of Jesus and Islam : the simile of the seven concentric castles of the soul / Luce López-Baralt -- The mysticism of Saint Ignatius Loyola / Darcy Donahue -- Cecilia del Nacimiento, second-generation mystic of the Carmelite reform / Evelyn Toft -- The influences of Saint Catherine of Siena and Saint Teresa of Ávila on the Colombian nun Jerónima Nava y Saavedra (1669-1727) / Clara E. Herrera -- A new way of living? Luisa de Carvajal and the limits of mysticism / Glyn Redworth -- From saint to sinner : sixteenth-century perceptions of "La Monja de Lisboa" / Freddy Domínguez -- The gardens of Teresa of Ávila / Maryrica Ortiz Lottman -- Home, sweet home : Teresa de Jesús, Mudéjar architecture, and the place of mysticism in early modern Spain / María Mercedes Carrión -- Interrupted mysticism in Cervantes's Persiles / Christina H. Lee -- Suspensio animi, or the interweaving of mysticism and artistic creation / Elena del Río Parra -- "Through a glass darkly" : music and mysticism in Golden Age Spain / Tess Knighton.
Summary: The a oecanona of Hispanic mysticism is expanding. No longer is our picture of this special brand of early modern devotional practice limited to a handful of venerable saints. Instead, we recognize a wide range of a oemarginala figures as practitioners of mysticism, broadly defined. Neither do we limit the study of mysticism necessarily to the Christian religion, nor even to the realm of literature. Representations of mysticism are also found in the visual, plastic and musical arts. The terminology and theoretical framework of mysticism permeate early modern Hispanic cultures. Paradoxically, b.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-462) and index.

Prologue / Colin Thompson -- Introduction : expanding the mystical canon / Hilaire Kallendorf -- Religious autobiography / Fernando Durán López -- Traditions, life experiences and orientations in Portugese mysticism (1515-1630) / José Adriano de Freitas Carvalho -- New world colonial Franciscan mystical practice / Francisco Morales -- The Alumbrados : Dejamiento and its practitioners / Alastair Hamilton -- Mother Juana de la Cruz : Marian visions and female preaching / Jessica A. Boon -- John of the Cross, the difficult icon / Jane Ackerman -- Teresa of Jesus and Islam : the simile of the seven concentric castles of the soul / Luce López-Baralt -- The mysticism of Saint Ignatius Loyola / Darcy Donahue -- Cecilia del Nacimiento, second-generation mystic of the Carmelite reform / Evelyn Toft -- The influences of Saint Catherine of Siena and Saint Teresa of Ávila on the Colombian nun Jerónima Nava y Saavedra (1669-1727) / Clara E. Herrera -- A new way of living? Luisa de Carvajal and the limits of mysticism / Glyn Redworth -- From saint to sinner : sixteenth-century perceptions of "La Monja de Lisboa" / Freddy Domínguez -- The gardens of Teresa of Ávila / Maryrica Ortiz Lottman -- Home, sweet home : Teresa de Jesús, Mudéjar architecture, and the place of mysticism in early modern Spain / María Mercedes Carrión -- Interrupted mysticism in Cervantes's Persiles / Christina H. Lee -- Suspensio animi, or the interweaving of mysticism and artistic creation / Elena del Río Parra -- "Through a glass darkly" : music and mysticism in Golden Age Spain / Tess Knighton.

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The a oecanona of Hispanic mysticism is expanding. No longer is our picture of this special brand of early modern devotional practice limited to a handful of venerable saints. Instead, we recognize a wide range of a oemarginala figures as practitioners of mysticism, broadly defined. Neither do we limit the study of mysticism necessarily to the Christian religion, nor even to the realm of literature. Representations of mysticism are also found in the visual, plastic and musical arts. The terminology and theoretical framework of mysticism permeate early modern Hispanic cultures. Paradoxically, b.

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