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

Redaktion: Verini, Alexandra; Bazaz, Abir

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 Mirabai 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000928570
• Artikelnr.: 68687581

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