Women Mystics Of The Contemporary Era
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Women Mystics Of The Contemporary Era
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Author : Thierry Gosset
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Women Mystics Of The Contemporary Era written by Thierry Gosset and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Christian women saints categories.
Women Mystics Of The Modern Era
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Author : Thierry Gosset
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
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Women Mystics Of The Modern Era
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Author : Thierry Gosset
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Women Mystics Of The Modern Era written by Thierry Gosset and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Christian women saints categories.
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.
Relevations Of Women Mystics
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Author : José De Vinck
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
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Women Mystics Of The Medieval Era
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Author : Thierry Gosset
language : en
Publisher: St Pauls Publishing
Release Date : 2003-04
Women Mystics Of The Medieval 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.
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.
Medieval Mystical Women In The West
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Author : John Arblaster
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-07-18
Medieval Mystical Women In The West written by John Arblaster and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-18 with Religion categories.
This book explores the rich and varied mystical writings by and about medieval – and a few early modern – women across Western Europe. Women had a profound and lasting impact on the development of medieval and early modern spiritual and mystical literature, both through their own writing and as a result of the hagiographical texts that they inspired. Bringing together contributions by both established and emerging scholars, the volume provides a valuable overview of medieval mystical women with a special focus on the Low Countries and Italy, regions that produced a disproportionately high number of female mystics. The figures discussed range from Hildegard of Bingen, Hadewijch, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, Angela of Foligno, Julian of Norwich, and Beatrice of Nazareth to lesser-known women such as Agnes Blannbekin, Christina of Hane, and Maria Maddalena de’ Pazzi. The chapters address topics such as the body, pain, desire, ecstasy, stigmata, annihilation, virtue, visions, the tension between exterior and interior experience, and the nature of mystical union itself.
Revelations Of Women Mystics
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Author : José De Vinck
language : en
Publisher: Saint Pauls/Alba House
Release Date : 1985
Revelations Of Women Mystics written by José De Vinck and has been published by Saint Pauls/Alba House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Religion categories.
The lives and writings of eight gifted women of God.
Gender And Medieval Mysticism From India To Europe
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Author : Alexandra Verini
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-09-29
Gender And Medieval Mysticism From India To Europe written by Alexandra Verini and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-29 with Religion categories.
This book opens up a dialogue between pre-modern women identified as mystics in diverse locations from South Asia to Europe. It considers how women from the disparate religious traditions of Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity expressed devotion in parallel ways. The argument is that women’s mysticism demands to be compared not because of any essential "female" experience of the divine but because the parallel positions of marginalization that pre-modern women experienced led them to deploy intimate encounters with the divine to speak publicly and claim authority. The topics covered range from the Sufi devotional tradition of Sidis (Indians of African ancestry) to the Bhakti poet Mīrābaī and the nuns of Barking Abbey. Collectively the chapters show how mysticism allowed premodern women to speak and act by unsettling traditional gender roles and expectations for religious behavior. At the same time as uncovering connections, the juxtaposition of women from different traditions serves to highlight distinctive features. The book draws on a range of disciplinary expertise and will be of particular interest to scholars of medieval religion and theology as well as history and literary studies.