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Acute melancholia and other essays : mysticism, history, and the study of religion / Amy Hollywood.

By: Series: Gender, theory, and religionPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780231527439
  • 0231527438
Uniform titles:
  • Essays. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Acute melancholia and other essays.DDC classification:
  • 270 23
LOC classification:
  • BR100 .H6155 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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