Hall Laughing at the Devil

Seeing the World with Julian of Norwich
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0210-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 144 Seiten

In this impassioned, analytical, playful, and irreverent book, theologian Amy Laura Hall takes up Julian of Norwich's call to laugh at the Devil as a means to transform a setting of dread and fear into the means to create hope, solidarity, and resistance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hall, Amy Laura

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface. Devil: Zero xi
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction. Love in Everything 1
1. Time: On Poynte 19
2. Truth: Divine Delight 41
3. Blood: Spiritual Safety 61
4. Bodies: Nakedly and Truly 81
Postscript 109
Appendix. A Summary of Julian's Visions 113
References 115
Index 119

Über Autor(innen)

Amy Laura Hall is Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at Duke University Divinity School. She is the author of Kierkegaard and the Treachery of Love; Conceiving Parenthood: American Protestantism and the Spirit of Reproduction; and Writing Home, With Love: Politics for Neighbors and Naysayers.