Gender and Medieval Mysticism from India to Europe
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ISBN13: | 9781032358499 |
ISBN10: | 1032358491 |
Kötéstípus: | Keménykötés |
Terjedelem: | 254 oldal |
Méret: | 234x156 mm |
Súly: | 630 g |
Nyelv: | angol |
Illusztrációk: | 2 Illustrations, black & white; 2 Halftones, black & white |
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This book opens up a dialogue between pre-modern women identified as mystics in diverse locations from South Asia to Europe.
"This is an impressive, reflective volume of diverse essays that help to understand a historical pattern between 700 and 1500 CE, as women increasingly confronted gender norms by asserting religious/spiritual authority?often referred to or translated as ?mysticism?. By strategically limiting the scope to South Asia and Europe, the contributors present a manageable set of examples that can be brought into meaningful conversation, thereby joining in the growing current of critical comparison in religious studies. We find here careful analyses of detail-rich local cases, reflections on provincialities of key terms (especially ?mysticism?), and considerations of transregional and long-term relationships between gender and appeals to religion/spirituality to construct the world differently. Highly recommended for anyone interested in understanding women and gender in the premodern world, mysticism as a social force, cross-cultural translation, and the critically comparative study of religion." ? Jon Keune, Michigan State University, USA
1 Introduction
Alexandra Verini
Part I Mysticism as Resistance
2 Weeping as Resistance in Islamic and Christian Contemplative Hagiography
Ayoush Lazikani
3 Mysticism between Women in Early Medieval England
Kathryn Maude
4 Public Scandal and Mystical Marriage: Margery Kempe and M?r?ba?
Katherine Zieman
Part II Reimagining the Female Mystic
5 Tongue Untied: Women and Forbidden Speech in Medieval India
Subhashree Chakravarty
6 Enclosed Life and Mystical Form in the Ancrene Wisse
Aparna Chaudhuri
7 Gender Fluidity in S?r?vais?n?ava Theology: The Status of the Cowherd Women
Manasicha Akepiyapornchai
Part III Shaping Mystical Femininity
8 The Discipline of Mahadevi and Lalla: Religious Ambiguity in the Gendering of Ascetic Female Hindu Saints
Dean Accardi
9 Imagined femininity in Sant Mysticism
Galina Rousseva
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10 Invoking Mirabai: Elision and Illumination in the Global Study of Women Mystics
Nancy Martin
Part IV Women Mystics Across Time
11 Swaying in the Presence of the Saints: Women's Mediation of Spiritual Authority in the Sidi Sufi Devotional Tradition of Gujarat
Jazmin Graves
12 Love Knows no Bounds: Contemporary Artist Engagement with Marguerite Porete and Hadewijch
Louise Nelstrop
13 Afterword
Liz Herbert McAvoy