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The Female Mystic
Author | : Andrea Janelle Dickens |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 075562498X |
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"The Middle Ages saw a flourishing of mysticism that was astonishing for its richness and distinctiveness. The medieval period was unlike any other period of Christianity in producing people who frequently claimed visions of Christ and Mary, uttered prophecies, gave voice to ecstatic experiences, recited poems and songs said to emanate directly from God and changed their ways of life as a result of these special revelations. Many recipients of these alleged divine gifts were women. Yet the female contribution to western Europe's intellectual and religious development is still not well understood. Popular or lay religion has been overshadowed by academic theology, which was predominantly the theology of men. This timely book rectifies the neglect by examining a number of women whose lives exemplify traditions which were central to medieval theology but whose contributions have tended to be dismissed as 'merely spiritual' by today's scholars. In their different ways, visionaries like Richeldis de Faverches (founder of the Holy House at Walsingham, or 'England's Nazareth'), the learned Hildegard of Bingen, Hadewijch of Brabant (exemplary voice of the Beguine tradition of love mysticism), charismatic traveller and pilgrim Margery Kempe and anchoress Julian of Norwich all challenged traditional male scholastic theology. Designed for the use of undergraduate student and general reader alike, this attractive survey provides an introduction to thirteen remarkable women and sets their ideas in context."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
The Female Mystic
Author | : Andrea Janelle Dickens |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2009-05-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780857712615 |
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The Middle Ages saw a flourishing of mysticism that was astonishing for its richness and distinctiveness. The medieval period was unlike any other period of Christianity in producing people who frequently claimed visions of Christ and Mary, uttered prophecies, gave voice to ecstatic experiences, recited poems and songs said to emanate directly from God and changed their ways of life as a result of these special revelations. Many recipients of these alleged divine gifts were women. Yet the female contribution to western Europe's intellectual and religious development is still not well understood. Popular or lay religion has been overshadowed by academic theology, which was predominantly the theology of men. This timely book rectifies the neglect by examining a number of women whose lives exemplify traditions which were central to medieval theology but whose contributions have tended to be dismissed as 'merely spiritual' by today's scholars. In their different ways, visionaries like Richeldis de Faverches (founder of the Holy House at Walsingham, or 'England's Nazareth'), the learned Hildegard of Bingen, Hadewijch of Brabant (exemplary voice of the Beguine tradition of love mysticism), charismatic traveller and pilgrim Margery Kempe and anchoress Julian of Norwich all challenged traditional male scholastic theology. Designed for the use of undergraduate student and general reader alike, this attractive survey provides an introduction to thirteen remarkable women and sets their ideas in context.
The Feminine Mystique
Author | : Betty Friedan |
Publsiher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 587 |
Release | : 2001-09-17 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780393322576 |
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The book that changed the consciousness of a country—and the world. Landmark, groundbreaking, classic—these adjectives barely describe the earthshaking and long-lasting effects of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique. This is the book that defined "the problem that has no name," that launched the Second Wave of the feminist movement, and has been awakening women and men with its insights into social relations, which still remain fresh, ever since. A national bestseller, with over 1 million copies sold.
Prayers of the Women Mystics
Author | : Ronda De Sola Chervin,Ronda Chervin |
Publsiher | : Servant Books |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0892837500 |
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Journey in prayer with great women mystics and, through the pern of mystical prayer, glimpse their profound intimacy with God. Gertrude the Great, Birgade of Sweden, Italian of Norwich, Catherine of Stena, Tanese of Avita, and fourteen more mystics are included. Each chapter on a particular mystic indudes commentary on her life and spirituality and a selection of prayers organized by key themes.
Women Mystics in Medieval Europe
Author | : Emilie Zum Brunn,Georgette Epiney-Burgard |
Publsiher | : Paragon House Publishers |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39076001056287 |
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This text revives the works of five powerful mystics of the Middle Ages and provides a valuable inspirational resource for all spiritual seekers.
African American Female Mysticism
Author | : Joy R. Bostic |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2013-11-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781137375056 |
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African-American Female Mysticism: Nineteenth Century Religious Activism is an important book-length treatment of African-American female mysticism. The primary subjects of this book are three icons of black female spirituality and religious activism - Jarena Lee, Sojourner Truth, and Rebecca Cox Jackson.
Women Mystics Confront the Modern World
Author | : Marie-Florine Bruneau |
Publsiher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1998-01-29 |
Genre | : 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.
Medieval Women Mystics
Author | : Elizabeth Ruth Obbard |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Mysticism |
ISBN | : 1565481577 |
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Selected spiritual wiritings from 4 medieval women who have strongly impacted Christian spirituality and theology.