Acute Melancholia and Other Essays

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-231-15644-8
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 547 g

Reihe: Gender, Theory, and Religion

This book showcases the best in modern medieval and religious scholarship, deploying spirited and progressive approaches to the study of Christian mysticism and the philosophy of religion. The volume explores excessive forms of desire and eroticism at play within Christian mystical texts and the historiographical, theological, and philosophical problems bound up in the interrogation of extraordinary experiences of the divine. Amy Hollywood examines how feminist and queer studies have changed the history of mysticism and how the study of religion in general has altered our understanding of what is true, what is real, and what it means to research a historical subject.

Ideal for novices and experienced scholars alike, this volume models cutting-edge methods for the ethical study of divine embodiment and religious experience in the Middle Ages. It makes a forceful case for thinking about religion as both belief and practice, in which traditions marked by change are passed down through generations, laying the groundwork for their own critique. Through a provocative integration of medieval sources and texts by Derrida, Butler, Asad, and Chakrabarty this book redefines what it means to engage critically with history and those embedded within it.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hollywood, Amy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: A TriptychOn the True, the Real, and Critique; By Way of an IntroductionHenry Adams, Clover Adams, and the Death of the RealThe Unspeakability of Trauma, the Unspeakability of JoyPart I1. Acute MelancholiaPart II. History2. Feminist Studies in Christian Spirituality 3. On Gender, Agency, and the Divine in Religious Historiography4. Reading as Self-Annihilation: On Marguerite Porete's Mirror of Simple SoulsPart III. Sexuality5. Sexual Desire, Divine Desire; Or, Queering the Beguines6. The Normal, the Queer, and the Middle Ages7. "That Glorious Slit": Irigaray and the Medieval Devotion to Christ's Side WoundPart IV. Practice8. Inside Out: Beatrice of Nazareth and Her Hagiographer9. Performativity, Citationality, Ritualization 10. Practice, Belief, and Feminist Philosophy of ReligionPart V11. Love of Neighbor and Love of God: Martha and Mary in the Christian Middle AgesNotesIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Amy Hollywood is the Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies at Harvard Divinity School. She is the author of Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History and the award-winning The Soul as Virgin Wife: Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart. She is the coeditor, with Patricia Z. Beckman, of The Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism.