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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hollywood, Amy M., 1963-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
Series:Gender, theory, and religion.
Subjects:
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.