Women Mystics Confront The Modern World
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Author : Marie-Florine Bruneau
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 1998-01-29
Women Mystics Confront The Modern World written by Marie-Florine Bruneau and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-01-29 with Religion categories.
Women Mystics Confront the Modern World situates the female mystical tradition within the context of the epistemological shift which affected religious sentiments and the perception of the self at the dawn of the modern world. Anchored in a comprehensive knowledge of the religious history of seventeenth-century France, this book offers a vivid account of the fascinating lives and work of two exceptional women. Marie de l'Incarnation (1599-1672) and Madame Guyon (1648-1717) continue a literary and spiritual tradition that had begun in the thirteenth century. Yet, because they were at a crucial point in the history of Western mysticism, when this movement was at once at its apogee and in the first stages of decline, their writings show indications of a changing mentality. These transformations shed light on the social significance of female mysticism in the Western tradition. The opportunities the two women seized or shunned highlight their maneuvering for validation and autonomy. But their choices also highlight many contradictions, compromises, and limits imposed upon their self-expression. At the confluence of French and American scholarship on mysticism, this work joins these two schools of thought by introducing gender as a viable category of inquiry into the one and by tempering the overly-optimistic interpretation of female mysticism of the other.
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Author : Marie-Florine Bruneau
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1998-01-29
Women Mystics Confront The Modern World written by Marie-Florine Bruneau and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-01-29 with Religion categories.
Situates the female mystical tradition within the context of the epistemological shift which occurred at the dawn of the modern world.
Between Exaltation And Infamy
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Author : Stephen Haliczer
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2002-08-29
Between Exaltation And Infamy written by Stephen Haliczer and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-08-29 with History categories.
One day in 1599, in the Spanish village of Saria, seven-year-old Maria Angela Astorch fell ill and died after gorging herself on unripened almonds. Maria's sister Isabel, a nun, came to view the body with her mother superior, an ecstatic mystic and visionary named Maria Angela Serafina. Overcome by the sight of the dead girl's innocent face, Serafina began to pray fervently for the return of the child's soul to her body. Entering a trance, she had a vision in which the Virgin Mary gave her a sign. At once little Maria Angela started to show signs of life. A moment later she scrambled to the ground and was soon restored to perfect health. During the Counter-Reformation, the Church was confronted by an extraordinary upsurge of feminine religious enthusiasm like that of Serafina. Inspired by new translations of the lives of the saints, devout women all over Catholic Europe sought to imitate these "athletes of Christ" through extremes of self-abnegation, physical mortification, and devotion. As in the Middle Ages, such women's piety often took the form of ecstatic visions, revelations, voices and stigmata. Stephen Haliczer offers a comprehensive portrait of women's mysticism in Golden Age Spain, where this enthusiasm was nearly a mass movement. The Church's response, he shows, was welcoming but wary, and the Inquisition took on the task of winnowing out frauds and imposters. Haliczer draws on fifteen cases brought by the Inquisition against women accused of "feigned sanctity," and on more than two dozen biographies and autobiographies. The key to acceptance, he finds, lay in the orthodoxy of the woman's visions and revelations. He concludes that mysticism offered women a way to transcend, though not to disrupt, the control of the male-dominated Church.
Review Of Religious Research
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Review Of Religious Research written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Religion categories.
Women Of Devotion Through The Centuries
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Author : Cheryl Forbes
language : en
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group (MI)
Release Date : 2001
Women Of Devotion Through The Centuries written by Cheryl Forbes and has been published by Baker Publishing Group (MI) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
An inspiring survey of the long tradition of devotional writing and the deeply spiritual women who wrote it.
The Best Books For Academic Libraries Religion And Philosophy
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language : en
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Release Date : 2002
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Women Mystics Of The Modern Era
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Author : Thierry Gosset
language : en
Publisher: St Pauls Publishing
Release Date : 2003-04
Women Mystics Of The Modern Era written by Thierry Gosset and has been published by St Pauls Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-04 with Christian women saints categories.
These three attractive books present carefully chosen excerpts from the writings of the great women mystics such as Hildegarde of Bingen, Mechtild of Magdeburg, Julian of Norwich, Catherine of Siena, Teresa of Avila, Catherine of Genoa, Madame Guyon, Therese of Lisieux, Elizabeth of the Trinity, Simone Weil, Edith Stein, and Marthe Robin.
New Books On Women And Feminism
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language : en
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Release Date : 2001
New Books On Women And Feminism written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Feminism categories.
Experimental Theology In America
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Author : Patricia A. Ward
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Experimental Theology In America written by Patricia A. Ward and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In this study of Madame Guyon and, her defender, Francois de Fénelon, the Archbishop of Cambray, Patricia Ward demonstrates how the ideas of these seventeenth-century Catholics were transmitted into an ongoing tradition of Protestant devotional literature--one that continues to influence American evangelicals and charismatic Christians today. Down a winding (and fascinating) historical path, Ward traces how the lives and writings of these two somewhat obscure Catholic believers in Quietism came to such prominence in American spirituality--offering, in part, a fascinating glance at the role of women in the history of devotional writing.
American Book Publishing Record Cumulative 1998
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Author : R R Bowker Publishing
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999-03
American Book Publishing Record Cumulative 1998 written by R R Bowker Publishing and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-03 with categories.