Acute Melancholia and Other Essays : Mysticism, History, and the Study of Religion / Amy Hollywood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hollywood, Amy, Author.

Series:

Gender, theory, and religion.

Gender, Theory, and Religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity--Philosophy.

Christianity.

Experience (Religion).

Mysticism.

Religion--Philosophy.

Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (413 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Acute Melancholia and Other Essays deploys spirited and progressive approaches to the study of Christian mysticism and the philosophy of religion. Ideal for novices and experienced scholars alike, the volume makes a forceful case for thinking about religion as both belief and practice, in which traditions marked by change are passed down through generations, laying the groundwork for their own critique. Through a provocative integration of medieval sources and texts by Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, Talal Asad, and Dipesh Chakrabarty, this book redefines what it means to engage critically with history and those embedded within it.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

On the True, the Real, and Critique; By Way of an Introduction

Henry Adams, Clover Adams, and the Death of the Real

The Unspeakability of Trauma, the Unspeakability of Joy

1. Acute Melancholia

2. Feminist Studies in Christian Spirituality

3. Gender, Agency, and the Divine in Religious Historiography

4. Reading as Self-Annihilation

5. Sexual Desire, Divine Desire; Or, Queering the Beguines

6. The Normal, the Queer, and the Middle Ages

7. “That Glorious Slit”

8. Inside Out

9. Performativity, Citationality, Ritualization

10. Practice, Belief, and Feminist Philosophy of Religion

11. Love of Neighbor and Love of God

Notes

Sources

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9780231527439

0231527438

OCLC:

945719355