Acute melancholia and other essays : mysticism, history, and the study of religion /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | Gender, theory, and religion.
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Table of 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.