Women Mystics Confront the Modern World
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-0-7914-3662-2 (ISBN)
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.
Marie-Florine Bruneau is Professor of French at the University of Southern California. Her previous work includes Racine, le Jansenisme et la modernite.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Female Mysticism: A Historical Perspective
Part 1 Marie de l'Incarnation
Chapter 2. The Female Mystical Body in Transition: From the Rhetoric of Suffering to the Rhetoric of Health
Chapter 3. From France to Canada / From Motherhood to Subjecthood: Mystical Writing as Distancing
Chapter 4. The Double Bind—The Invisible Historical Subject as Historiographer
Chapter 5. The Confrontation between "Civilized" and "Savage" Femininity in the New World
Part 2 Madame Guyon
Chapter 6. A Figure of Transition: Madame Guyon between the Female Mystical Tradition and the Emergence of a New Era
Chapter 7. The Quarrel of Quietism and the Construction of Modern Femininity
Chapter 8. Guyon's Autobiography at the Crossroads of History
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Reihe/Serie | SUNY series in Western Esoteric Traditions |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Albany, NY |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 399 g |
| Themenwelt | Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7914-3662-4 / 0791436624 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7914-3662-2 / 9780791436622 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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