Sensible Ecstasy
Subtitle: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History (Religion and Postmodernism Series)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: January 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780226349527
Subjects: Christian mysticism; Religion - Inspirational/Spirituality; Literary Criticism; Central Europe; Mysticism; Religion / Mysticism; American - General; 20th century; History; Philosophy, French; Psychology; Women mystics
First sentence: On a day sometime in the late thirteenth century, a woman came through the portals of the church of St. Francis in Assisi and began to scream.