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Impossible Recovery - Julian Of Norwich And The Phenomenology Of Well-Being

by Hannah Lucas

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 Hannah Lucas explores the entanglement of illness and revelation in the writings of Julian of Norwich, illuminating the unexpected commonalities between the medical and the mystical and their significance for philosophies of health.
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Impossible Recovery - Julian Of Norwich And The Phenomenology Of Well-Being

by Hannah Lucas

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 The medieval mystic Julian of Norwich (1342-after 1416) is the first known woman to author a book in the English language, recognized today for her strikingly optimistic claim that "all shall be well." Her visionary text Revelations of Divine Love is the product of many years of contemplation, written and revised after a life-changing event of near-fatal illness and divine revelation. Hannah Lucas explores the entanglement of illness and revelation in Julian’s writings, illuminating the unexpected commonalities between the medical and the mystical and their significance for philosophies of health. Framed by an original application of post-Heideggerian philosophy, Impossible Recovery offers a vivid new interpretation of the medieval mystic as crafting a proto-phenomenological theology of well-being. Lucas’s careful readings pay close attention to Julian’s mystical language and poetics, revealing the surprising resonances of her writings with modern and postmodern thought. Refracted through Julian’s Revelations, this book advances a powerful existential query about the possibilities of recovery—of well-being, and of medieval history.
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Literary Afterlives Of Simone Weil - Feminism, Justice, And The Challenge Of Religion

by Cynthia R. Wallace

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 The French philosopher-mystic-activist Simone Weil (1909-1943) has drawn both passionate admiration and scornful dismissal since her early death and the posthumous publication of her writings. She has also provoked an extraordinary range of literary writing focused on not only her ideas but also her person: novels, nonfiction, and especially poetry. Given the challenges of Weil’s ethic of self-emptying attention, what accounts for her appeal, especially among women writers? This book tells the story of some of Weil’s most dedicated—and at points surprising—literary conversation partners, exploring why writers with varied political and religious commitments have found her thought and life so resonant. Cynthia R. Wallace considers authors who have devoted decades of attention to Weil, such as Adrienne Rich, Annie Dillard, and Mary Gordon, and who have written poetic sequences or book-length verse biographies of Weil, including Maggie Helwig, Stephanie Strickland, Kate Daniels, Sarah Klassen, Anne Carson, and Lorri Neilsen Glenn. She illuminates how writing to, of, and in the tradition of Weil has helped these writers grapple with the linked harms and possibilities of religious belief, self-giving attention, and the kind of moral seriousness required by the ethical and political crises of late modernity. The first book to trace Weil’s influence on Anglophone literature, The Literary Afterlives of Simone Weil provides new ways to understand Weil’s legacy and why her provocative wisdom continues to challenge and inspire writers and readers.
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Archives Of Conjure - Stories Of The Dead In Afrolatinx Cultures

by Solimar Otero

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 In Afrolatinx religious practices such as Cuban Espiritismo, Puerto Rican Santería, and Brazilian Candomblé, the dead tell stories. Communicating with and through mediums’ bodies, they give advice, make requests, and propose future rituals, creating a living archive that is coproduced by the dead. In this book, Solimar Otero explores how Afrolatinx spirits guide collaborative spiritual-scholarly activist work through rituals and the creation of material culture. By examining spirit mediumship through a Caribbean cross-cultural poetics, she shows how divinities and ancestors serve as active agents in shaping the experiences of gender, sexuality, and race. Otero argues that what she calls archives of conjure are produced through residual transcriptions or reverberations of the stories of the dead whose archives are stitched, beaded, smoked, and washed into official and unofficial repositories. She investigates how sites like the ocean, rivers, and institutional archives create connected contexts for unlocking the spatial activation of residual transcriptions. Drawing on over ten years of archival research and fieldwork in Cuba, Otero centers the storytelling practices of Afrolatinx women and LGBTQ spiritual practitioners alongside Caribbean literature and performance. Archives of Conjure offers vital new perspectives on ephemerality, temporality, and material culture, unraveling undertheorized questions about how spirits shape communities of practice, ethnography, literature, and history and revealing the deeply connected nature of art, scholarship, and worship.
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Naming The Witch - Magic, Ideology, And Stereotype In The Ancient World

by Kimberly B. Stratton

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 Investigates the cultural and ideological motivations behind early imaginings of the magician, the sorceress, and the witch in the ancient world. This book highlights the degree to which these ancient cultures shared ideas about power and legitimate authority, even while constructing and deploying those ideas in different ways.
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Excessive Saints - Gender, Narrative, And Theological Invention In Thomas Of Cantimpré’S Mystical Hagiographies

by Rachel J. D. Smith

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 For thirteenth-century preacher, exorcist, and hagiographer Thomas of Cantimpré, the Southern Low Countries were a harbinger of the New Jerusalem. The Holy Spirit, he believed, was manifesting itself in the lives of lay and religious people alike. Thomas avidly sought out these new kinds of saints, writing accounts of their lives so that these models of sanctity might astound, teach, and trouble the convictions of his day. In Excessive Saints, Rachel J. D. Smith combines historical, literary, and theological approaches to offer a new interpretation of Thomas’s hagiographies, showing how they employ vivid narrative portrayals of typically female bodies to perform theological work in a rhetorically specific way. Written in an era of great religious experimentation, Thomas’s texts think with and through the bodies of particular figures: the narrative of the holy person’s life becomes a site of theological invention in a variety of registers, particularly the devotional, the mystical, and the dogmatic. Smith examines how these texts represent the lives and bodies of holy women to render them desirable objects of devotion for readers and how Thomas passionately narrates these lives even as he works through his uncertainties about the opportunities and dangers that these emerging forms of holiness present. Excessive Saints is the first book to consider Thomas’s narrative craft in relation to his theological projects, offering new visions for the study of theology, medieval Christianity, and medieval women’s history.
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Of Women Borne - A Literary Ethics Of Suffering

by Cynthia R. Wallace

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 Crafts a literary ethics attentive to the paradoxes of critique and re-vision, universality and particularity, and reads in suffering a redemptive or redeemable reality
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Acute Melancholia And Other Essays - Mysticism, History, And The Study Of Religion

by Amy Hollywood

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 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.
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Signs And Wonders - Theology After Modernity

by Ellen T. Armour

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 Lays the groundwork for a theology and philosophy of life better suited to our (post)modern moment: one that owns up to the vulnerabilities that modernity sought to disavow and better enables us to navigate the ethical issues we now confront.
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Electric Santeria - Racial And Sexual Assemblages Of Transnational Religion

by Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesus

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 Drawing on eight years of ethnographic research, Beliso-De JesÃºs traces the phenomenon of copresence in the lives of SanterÃa practitioners
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Christ Without Adam - Subjectivity And Sexual Difference In The Philosophers'' Paul

by Benjamin H. Dunning

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 Christ Without Adam is the first book to examine the role of gender and sexuality in the turn to the apostle Paul in recent Continental philosophy.
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Promised Bodies - Time, Language, And Corporeality In Medieval Women''S Mystical Texts

by Patricia Dailey

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 rossing linguistic and historical boundaries, Patricia Dailey connects the embodied poetics of Hadewijch of Brabantâ€™s visions, writings, and letters to the work of Julian of Norwich, Hildegard of Bingen, Marguerite of Oingt, and other mystics and visionaries.
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When Heroes Love - The Ambiguity Of Eros In The Stories Of Gilgamesh And David

by Susan Ackerman

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 Toward the end of the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh King, Gilgamesh laments the untimely death of his comrade Enkidu, 'my friend whom I loved dearly'. This book examines the stories' sexual and homoerotic language and suggests that its ambiguity provides fresh ways of understanding ideas of gender and sexuality in the ancient Near East.
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Dying To Be Men - Gender And Language In Early Christian Martyr Texts

by L. Stephanie Cobb

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 This work explores the double embodiment of 'male' and 'female' gender ideas in the female martyrs of the second and third centuries, revealing how gendered language in early Christian martyrologies was used to lay claim to social power.
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Between A Man And A Woman? - Why Conservatives Oppose Same-Sex Marriage

by Ludger H. Viefhues-Bailey

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 Investigating why conservative Christians are so energized by an issue that affects only a small number of Americans, Ludger Viefhues-Bailey confronts a profound theological conundrum: conservatives of both sexes are asked at once to be assertive & submissive, masculine & feminine, both within the home, the church, society & the state.
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Abandoned To Lust - Sexual Slander And Ancient Christianity

by Jennifer Wright Knust

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 Early Christians used charges of adultery, incest, and lascivious behavior to demonize their opponents, police insiders, resist pagan rulers, and define what it meant to be a Christian. This book explores the writings of Paul, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus of Lyons, and other Christian authors who argued that Christ alone made self-mastery possible.
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Bodily Citations - Religion And Judith Butler

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 An anthology applying Judith Butler's theories to religion. It uses her work to investigate a variety of topics in biblical, Islamic, Buddhist, and Christian traditions. It sheds light on Butler's ideas and highlights their ethical and political import. It discusses subjects such as religious rituals, and biblical constructions of sexuality.
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Martyrdom And Memory - Early Christian Culture Making

by Elizabeth Castelli

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 Suggests that Martyrs are produced, not by lived experience of particular historical individuals but by the stories that are later told about them. This work explores the central role of persecution in the early development of Christian ideas, institutions, and cultural forms and shows how the legacy of Christian martyrdom plays out in the world.
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Impossible Recovery - Julian Of Norwich And The Phenomenology Of Well-Being

by Hannah Lucas

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 Hannah Lucas explores the entanglement of illness and revelation in the writings of Julian of Norwich, illuminating the unexpected commonalities between the medical and the mystical and their significance for philosophies of health.
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The Literary Afterlives Of Simone Weil - Feminism, Justice, And The Challenge Of Religion

by Cynthia R. (Assistant Professor Of English, St. Thomas Moore College) Wallace

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 This book tells the story of Simone Weilâ€™s most dedicatedâ€"and at points surprisingâ€"literary conversation partners, exploring why writers with varied political and religious commitments have found her thought and life so resonant.
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The Literary Afterlives Of Simone Weil - Feminism, Justice, And The Challenge Of Religion

by Cynthia R. (Assistant Professor Of English, St. Thomas Moore College) Wallace

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 This book tells the story of Simone Weilâ€™s most dedicatedâ€"and at points surprisingâ€"literary conversation partners, exploring why writers with varied political and religious commitments have found her thought and life so resonant.
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Archives Of Conjure - Stories Of The Dead In Afrolatinx Cultures

by Solimar Otero

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 Solimar Otero explores how Afrolatinx spirits guide collaborative spiritual-scholarly activist work through rituals and the creation of material culture. By examining spirit mediumship through a Caribbean cross-cultural poetics, she shows how divinities and ancestors serve as active agents in shaping the experiences of gender, sexuality, and race.
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Naming The Witch - Magic, Ideology, And Stereotype In The Ancient World

by Kimberly B. Stratton

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 Kimberly B. Stratton presents an innovative approach to understanding ancient depictions and accusations of magic as forms of discourse, examining their role in struggles to define legitimate power and authority. She traces â€œmagic discourseâ€ from Classical Greece to the Babylonian Talmud, illuminating powerful stereotypes of sorcery and witches.
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Archives Of Conjure - Stories Of The Dead In Afrolatinx Cultures

by Solimar Otero

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 Solimar Otero explores how Afrolatinx spirits guide collaborative spiritual-scholarly activist work through rituals and the creation of material culture. By examining spirit mediumship through a Caribbean cross-cultural poetics, she shows how divinities and ancestors serve as active agents in shaping the experiences of gender, sexuality, and race.
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