Title: Acute melancholia and other essays : mysticism, history, and the study of religion /
Authors: Hollywood, Amy M., 1963-
Year: 2016
Subjects: Christianity Philosophy; Experience (Religion); Mysticism; Religion Philosophy; Christianity Philosophy; Experience (Religion); Mysticism; Religion Philosophy
Contents: Acute melancholia -- History -- Feminist studies in Christian spirituality -- On gender, agency, and the divine in religious historiography -- Reading as self-annihilation: on Marguerite Porete's Mirror of simple souls -- Sexuality -- Sexual desire, divine desire; or, queering the beguines -- The normal, the queer, and the Middle Ages -- "That glorious slit": Irigaray and the medieval devotion to Christ's side wound -- Practice -- Inside out: Beatrice of Nazareth and her hagiographer -- Performativity, citationality, ritualization -- Practice, belief, and feminist philosophy of religion -- Love of neighbor and love of God: Martha and Mary in the Christian Middle Ages.