Power, gender, and Christian mysticism / Grace M. Jantzen.
Publisher description: In the western Christian tradition, the mystic was seen as having direct access to God, and therefore great authority. In this study, Dr Jantzen discusses how men of power defined and controlled who should count as a mystic, and thus who would have power: women were pointedly...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1995.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in ideology and religion ;
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Feminists, philosophers and mystics
- 2. Mystics, martyrs and honorary males
- 3. The mystical meaning of scripture
- 4. Mystical theology and the erotic other
- 5. 'Cry out and write': mysticism and the struggle for authority
- 6. The visions of virgins: spirituality and sexual control
- 7. Heretics and witches
- 8. The language of ineffability
- 9. Conclusion: mysticism and modernity.