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Women Mystics Confront the Modern World

Author : Marie-Florine Bruneau
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791497845

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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.

Women Mystics Confront the Modern World

Author : Marie-Florine Bruneau
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1998-01-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791436624

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Situates the female mystical tradition within the context of the epistemological shift which occurred at the dawn of the modern world.

Review of Religious Research

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X006084646

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Women of Devotion Through the Centuries

Author : Cheryl Forbes
Publisher : Baker Publishing Group (MI)
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110180374

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Women of Devotion Through the Centuries by Cheryl Forbes Pdf

An inspiring survey of the long tradition of devotional writing and the deeply spiritual women who wrote it.

Wild Mercy

Author : Mirabai Starr
Publisher : Sounds True
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781683643357

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Wild Mercy by Mirabai Starr Pdf

Wild Mercy is essential reading for anyone ready to awaken the feminine mystic within and birth her loving, creative, and untamed power into the world. “Mystical brilliance at its best.” —Caroline Myss “No one can take us into the fiery and tender depths of the sacred feminine with more skill, humor, clarity, and vibrant naked honesty than Mirabai Starr.” —Andrew Harvey, author of The Hope and The Return of the Mother We live in a world that has suffered the abuses of an unbalanced masculine rule for thousands of years—but the feminine is rising. “Seeds of feminine wisdom that have been quietly germinating underground are now breaking through the surface,” writes Mirabai Starr. “Women everywhere are rising to the collective call to step up and repair our broken Earth. And we are activating a paradigm shift such as the world has never seen.” With Wild Mercy, Mirabai shares the subversive wisdom and fierce compassion of the feminine mystic across cultural boundaries and throughout history. From saints and sages, to goddesses and archetypal energies, to contemporary teachers and seekers—you’ll meet women who blazed a path that will illuminate your own. Each chapter explores a different facet of feminine mysticism through a tapestry of teachings, reflections, and stories, along with a practice for integrating the chapter’s themes into your own life. As you journey through these pages, you’ll explore: Taking refuge in contemplative practice with St. Teresa of Avila and the ShekinahLonging, embodiment, and union as the heart of feminine spiritual practice with the Hindu poet Mirabai and Mary MagdaleneYour relationship with the Earth, motherhood in all its forms, and a loving call to action alongside Gaia and Ix ChelCommunity and the web of life with Indra, the Beguines, and female prophets throughout historyWild, playful, and compassionate mercy with Tara and Kuan YinFinding joy in creativity and the arts with Saraswati and Chiyo-niMore inspiration from archetypal goddesses and amazing women past and present—Julian of Norwich, the Sufi saint Rabia, Pachamama, Sophia, Old Spider Woman, Hildegard of Bingen, Demeter, Kali, and more Wild Mercy provides a much-needed alternative to the models of religion and spirituality that have dominated history. Here, Mirabai invites you to welcome the wisdom of women back into the collective field where it may transform the human family, heal the ravaged Earth, and awaken the divine love in our hearts.

New Books on Women and Feminism

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Feminism
ISBN : UIUC:30112064081372

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Experimental Theology in America

Author : Patricia A. Ward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015084100414

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Experimental Theology in America by Patricia A. Ward Pdf

In this study of Madame Guyon and, her defender, Francois de Fénelon, the Archbishop of Cambray, Patricia Ward demonstrates how the ideas of these seventeenth-century Catholics were transmitted into an ongoing tradition of Protestant devotional literature--one that continues to influence American evangelicals and charismatic Christians today. Down a winding (and fascinating) historical path, Ward traces how the lives and writings of these two somewhat obscure Catholic believers in Quietism came to such prominence in American spirituality--offering, in part, a fascinating glance at the role of women in the history of devotional writing.

American Book Publishing Record Cumulative 1998

Author : R R Bowker Publishing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1312 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1999-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0835240878

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Between Exaltation and Infamy

Author : Stephen Haliczer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198033912

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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.

Current Contents

Author : Institute for Scientific Information (Philadelphia)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 01633155

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Mysticism and the Mind

Author : Colleen Marie Pauza
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:X83603

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Bibliographic Guide to Womens Studies 1998

Author : New York Public Library Staff
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1999-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0783804067

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Encyclopedia of Religion in America

Author : Charles H. Lippy,Peter W. Williams
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0872895807

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Encyclopedia of Religion in America by Charles H. Lippy,Peter W. Williams Pdf

A multidisciplinary examination of religion in American life Encyclopedia of Religion in America examines how religious history and practices are woven into the political, social, cultural, and historical landscape of North America. This authoritative four-volume reference work explains the origins, development, adaptation, influence, and interrelations of the many faiths practiced, including major world religions, new religious sects, cults, and religious movements that originated or had an influence in the United States. Edited by well-known experts in the field, the Encyclopedia covers all the significant religious denominations and movements that have originated or flourished in North America, from the beginning of European settlement to the present day. The broad multidisciplinary coverage includes the religious life of indigenous peoples, specific aspects of religious life, and the relationship of political, social, economic, and cultural spheres. Topics include: Religion as an influential force in the U.S. Methods of worship Religion and politics Homosexuality and religion African American religion Arts and architecture Church-state issues Education Environment and ecology Ethnicity Evangelicals Faiths Gay and lesbian issues Historical overviews Immigration Media (new and old) Megachurches Movements and denominations New religious movements Popular religion and culture Race and racism Religious thought Religious Right Rites Role of women Terrorism and war Encyclopedia of Religion in America is an essential resource for students and scholars researching issues in a wide variety of social science disciplines, from American history to cultural studies, political science, gender studies, psychology of religion, and more. It reflects new scholarly research and interpretation that have emerged over the last two decades, as well as significant new areas of study, such as post-9/11 America, the role of gays and lesbians in church, gender, and the role of the evangelicals in American political life.