Gender and Medieval Mysticism from India to Europe (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Verini, Alexandra; Bazaz, Abir

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book opens up a dialogue between pre-modern women identified as mystics in diverse locations from South Asia to Europe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000928600
• Artikelnr.: 68687641

Autorenporträt

Alexandra Verini is an Assistant Professor of English at Ashoka University. Abir Bazaz is an Assistant Professor of English at Ashoka University.

Inhaltsangabe

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
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bä 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 Sìr
vaisònòava 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-Sokolova 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