A New Companion to Hispanic Mysticism

Buch | Hardcover

540 Seiten

2010
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-18350-6 (ISBN)

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Winner of the 2011 Bainton Prize for Reference Works

The “canon” of Hispanic mysticism is expanding. By taking a more inclusive approach to studying mysticism in its “marginal” manifestations, we draw mysticism—in all its complex iterations—back toward its rightful place at the center of early modern spiritual experience.

Winner of the 2011 SCSC Bainton Prize for Reference Works

The “canon” of Hispanic mysticism is expanding. No longer is our picture of this special brand of early modern devotional practice limited to a handful of venerable saints. Instead, we recognize a wide range of “marginal” figures as practitioners of mysticism, broadly defined. Neither do we limit the study of mysticism necessarily to the Christian religion, nor even to the realm of literature. Representations of mysticism are also found in the visual, plastic and musical arts. The terminology and theoretical framework of mysticism permeate early modern Hispanic cultures. Paradoxically, by taking a more inclusive approach to studying mysticism in its “marginal” manifestations, we draw mysticism—in all its complex iterations—back toward its rightful place at the center of early modern spiritual experience.

Contributors: Colin Thompson, Alastair Hamilton, Christina Lee, Clara E. Herrera, Darcy Donahue, Elena del Río Parra, Evelyn Toft, Fernando Durán López, Francisco Morales, Freddy Domínguez, Glyn Redworth, Jane Ackerman, Jessica Boon, José Adriano de Freitas Carvalho, Luce López-Baralt, María Carrión, Maryrica Lottman, and Tess Knighton.

Hilaire Kallendorf, Ph.D. (2000) in Comparative Literature, Princeton University, is Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at Texas A&M University. Her books include Exorcism and Its Texts (2003) and Conscience on Stage (2007), both published by the University of Toronto Press.

I. Preface
Colin Thompson

II. Introduction
Hilaire Kallendorf

III. Chapter Summaries

IV. Larger Trends

1. Religious Autobiography
Fernando Durán López

2. Traditions, Life Experiences and Orientations in Portuguese Mysticism (1515-1630)
José Adriano de Freitas Carvalho

3. New World Colonial Franciscan Mystical Practice
Francisco Morales

4. The Alumbrados: Dejamiento and Its Practitioners
Alastair Hamilton

V. Specific Figures

1. Mother Juana de la Cruz: Marian Visions and Female Preaching
Jessica Boon

2. John of the Cross, the Difficult Icon
Jane Ackerman

3. Teresa of Jesus and Islam: The Simile of the Seven Concentric Castles of the Soul
Luce López-Baralt

4. The Mysticism of Saint Ignatius Loyola
Darcy Donahue

5. Cecilia del Nacimiento, Second-Generation Mystic of the Carmelite Reform
Evelyn Toft

6. The Influences of Saint Catherine of Siena and Saint Teresa of Ávila on the Colombian Nun Jerónima Nava y Saavedra (1669-1727)
Clara Herrera

7. A New Way of Living? Luisa de Carvajal and the Limits of Mysticism
Glyn Redworth

8. From Saint to Sinner: Sixteenth-Century Perceptions of “La Monja de Lisboa”
Freddy Domínguez

VI. Interdisciplinary Applications

1. The Gardens of Teresa of Ávila
Maryrica Ortiz Lottman

2. Home, Sweet Home: Teresa de Jesús, Mudéjar Architecture, and the Place of Mysticism in Early Modern Spain
María Mercedes Carrión

3. Interrupted Mysticism in Cervantes’s Persiles
Christina H. Lee

4. Suspensio Animi, or Mysticism in Literature
Elena del Río Parra

5. “Through a Glass Darkly”: Music and Mysticism in Golden Age Spain
Tess Knighton

VII. Bibliography

VIII. List of Figures

IX. Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.6.2010
Reihe/Serie	Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition ; 19
Zusatzinfo	6 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 240 mm
Gewicht	1077 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	90-04-18350-7 / 9004183507
ISBN-13	978-90-04-18350-6 / 9789004183506
Zustand	Neuware