Longing and Letting Go
Subtitle: Christian and Hindu Practices of Passionate Non-Attachment
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated; Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780190455538
Subjects: Christianity and other religions, hinduism; Hinduism, relations, christianity; Love, religious aspects, christianity
Description: Comparative theology investigates and negotiates the borders between religious traditions; at best, it also unsettles theological assumptions and results in greater interreligious empathy and understanding for an interconnected, pluralistic world. Toward these aims, this work explores and compares the energies of desire and non-attachment in the writings of two women mystics who lived in very different times and places: Hadewijch, a thirteenth-century Christian Beguine, and Mirabai, a sixteenth-century Hindu bhakti saint.