Gender, Theory, and Religion – serie
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32 produkter
Naming the Witch
Magic, Ideology, and Stereotype in the Ancient World
Häftad, 2022
308 kr
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Kimberly B. Stratton investigates the cultural and ideological motivations behind early imaginings of the magician, the sorceress, and the witch in the ancient world. Accusations of magic could carry the death penalty or, at the very least, marginalize the person or group they targeted. But …
Martyrdom and Memory
Early Christian Culture Making
Inbunden, 2004
1295 kr
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Martyrs are produced, Elizabeth Castelli suggests, not by the lived experience of particular historical individuals but by the stories that are later told about them. And the formulaic character of stories about past suffering paradoxically serves specific theological, cultural, or political ends …
Martyrdom and Memory
Early Christian Culture Making
Häftad, 2007
663 kr
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Martyrs are produced, Elizabeth Castelli suggests, not by the lived experience of particular historical individuals but by the stories that are later told about them. And the formulaic character of stories about past suffering paradoxically serves specific theological, cultural, or political ends …
When Heroes Love
The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David
Inbunden, 2005
1307 kr
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Toward the end of the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh King Gilgamesh laments the untimely death of his comrade Enkidu, "my friend whom I loved dearly." Similarly in the Bible, David mourns his companion, Jonathan, whose "love to me was wonderful, greater than the love of women." These passages, …
Bodily Citations
Religion and Judith Butler
Av Ellen T. Armour, Susan St. Ville
Inbunden, 2006
2227 kr
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In such works as Gender Trouble and Bodies That Matter Judith Butler broke new ground in understanding the construction and performance of identities. While Butler's writings have been crucial and often controversial in the development of feminist and queer theory, Bodily Citations is the first …
Bodily Citations
Religion and Judith Butler
Av Ellen T. Armour, Susan St. Ville
Häftad, 2006
325 kr
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In such works as Gender Trouble and Bodies That Matter Judith Butler broke new ground in understanding the construction and performance of identities. While Butler's writings have been crucial and often controversial in the development of feminist and queer theory, Bodily Citations is the first …
Naming the Witch
Magic, Ideology, and Stereotype in the Ancient World
Inbunden, 2007
2227 kr
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Kimberly B. Stratton investigates the cultural and ideological motivations behind early imaginings of the magician, the sorceress, and the witch in the ancient world. Accusations of magic could carry the death penalty or, at the very least, marginalize the person or group they targeted. But …
Dying to Be Men
Gender and Language in Early Christian Martyr Texts
Av L. Stephanie Professor Cobb
Inbunden, 2008
1230 kr
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At once brave and athletic, virtuous and modest, female martyrs in the second and third centuries were depicted as self-possessed gladiators who at the same time exhibited the quintessentially "womanly" qualities of modesty, fertility, and beauty. L. Stephanie Cobb explores the double embodiment of …
Tracing the Sign of the Cross
Sexuality, Mourning, and the Future of American Catholicism
Av Marian Ronan
Inbunden, 2009
522 kr
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Following World War II, millions of U.S. Catholics were poised to attain the American dream, while at Vatican Council II, the liberal vision of the church seemed finally to triumph. Yet by the end of the twentieth century, American Catholicism was in crisis, plagued by grave ideological divisions; …
Between a Man and a Woman?
Why Conservatives Oppose Same-Sex Marriage
Inbunden, 2010
436 kr
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Through a probing investigation of conservative Christianity and its response to an issue that, according to the statistics of conservative Christian groups, affects only a small number of Americans, Ludger Viefhues-Bailey alights on a profound theological conundrum: in today's conservative …
Acute Melancholia and Other Essays
Mysticism, History, and the Study of Religion
Inbunden, 2016
1381 kr
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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 …
Acute Melancholia and Other Essays
Mysticism, History, and the Study of Religion
Häftad, 2016
350 kr
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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 …
Promised Bodies
Time, Language, and Corporeality in Medieval Women's Mystical Texts
Inbunden, 2013
1307 kr
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In the Christian tradition, especially in the works of Paul, Augustine, and the exegetes of the Middle Ages, the body is a twofold entity consisting of inner and outer persons that promises to find its true materiality in a time to come. A potentially transformative vehicle, it is a dynamic mirror …
Christ Without Adam
Subjectivity and Sexual Difference in the Philosophers' Paul
Häftad, 2014
222 kr
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The apostle Paul deals extensively with gender, embodiment, and desire in his authentic letters, yet many of the contemporary philosophers interested in his work downplay these aspects of his thought. Christ Without Adam is the first book to examine the role of gender and sexuality in the turn to …
Signs and Wonders
Theology After Modernity
Av Ellen Armour
Inbunden, 2016
1209 kr
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We are told modernity's end will destabilize familiar ways of knowing, doing, and being, but are these changes we should dread-or celebrate? Four significant events (and the iconic images that represent them) catalyze this question: the consecration of openly gay Episcopalian bishop Gene Robinson, …
Signs and Wonders
Theology After Modernity
Av Ellen Armour
Häftad, 2016
325 kr
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We are told modernity's end will destabilize familiar ways of knowing, doing, and being, but are these changes we should dread-or celebrate? Four significant events (and the iconic images that represent them) catalyze this question: the consecration of openly gay Episcopalian bishop Gene Robinson, …
Electric Santería
Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion
Inbunden, 2015
2227 kr
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Santeria is an African-inspired, Cuban diaspora religion long stigmatized as witchcraft and often dismissed as superstition, yet its spirit- and possession-based practices are rapidly winning adherents across the world. Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesus introduces the term "copresence" to capture the …
Electric Santería
Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion
Häftad, 2015
308 kr
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Santeria is an African-inspired, Cuban diaspora religion long stigmatized as witchcraft and often dismissed as superstition, yet its spirit- and possession-based practices are rapidly winning adherents across the world. Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesus introduces the term "copresence" to capture the …
Of Women Borne
A Literary Ethics of Suffering
Inbunden, 2016
1390 kr
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The literature of Adrienne Rich, Toni Morrison, Ana Castillo, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie teaches a risky, self-giving way of reading (and being) that brings home the dangers and the possibilities of suffering as an ethical good. Working the thought of feminist theologians and philosophers into an …
Of Women Borne
A Literary Ethics of Suffering
Häftad, 2017
354 kr
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The literature of Adrienne Rich, Toni Morrison, Ana Castillo, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie teaches a risky, self-giving way of reading (and being) that brings home the dangers and the possibilities of suffering as an ethical good. Working the thought of feminist theologians and philosophers into an …
Excessive Saints
Gender, Narrative, and Theological Invention in Thomas of Cantimpré’s Mystical Hagiographies
Inbunden, 2018
651 kr
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For thirteenth-century preacher, exorcist, and hagiographer Thomas of Cantimpré, the Southern Low Countries were a harbinger of the New Jerusalem. The Holy Spirit, he believed, was manifesting itself in the lives of lay and religious people alike. Thomas avidly sought out these new kinds of saints, …
Archives of Conjure
Stories of the Dead in Afrolatinx Cultures
Inbunden, 2020
1193 kr
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In Afrolatinx religious practices such as Cuban Espiritismo, Puerto Rican Santería, and Brazilian Candomblé, the dead tell stories. Communicating with and through mediums’ bodies, they give advice, make requests, and propose future rituals, creating a living archive that is coproduced by the dead. …
Archives of Conjure
Stories of the Dead in Afrolatinx Cultures
Häftad, 2020
304 kr
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In Afrolatinx religious practices such as Cuban Espiritismo, Puerto Rican Santería, and Brazilian Candomblé, the dead tell stories. Communicating with and through mediums’ bodies, they give advice, make requests, and propose future rituals, creating a living archive that is coproduced by the dead. …
The Literary Afterlives of Simone Weil
Feminism, Justice, and the Challenge of Religion
Inbunden, 2024
1291 kr
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Finalist, 2025 Scholarly Writing Award, Saskatchewan Book AwardsThe French philosopher-mystic-activist Simone Weil (1909–1943) has drawn both passionate admiration and scornful dismissal since her early death and the posthumous publication of her writings. She has also provoked an extraordinary …
The Literary Afterlives of Simone Weil
Feminism, Justice, and the Challenge of Religion
Häftad, 2024
324 kr
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Finalist, 2025 Scholarly Writing Award, Saskatchewan Book AwardsThe French philosopher-mystic-activist Simone Weil (1909–1943) has drawn both passionate admiration and scornful dismissal since her early death and the posthumous publication of her writings. She has also provoked an extraordinary …
Impossible Recovery
Julian of Norwich and the Phenomenology of Well-Being
Av Hannah Lucas
Inbunden, 2025
1381 kr
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Shortlisted, 2026 University English Book Prize, University EnglishThe medieval mystic Julian of Norwich (1342–after 1416) is the first known woman to author a book in the English language, recognized today for her strikingly optimistic claim that “all shall be well.” Her visionary text Revelations …
Impossible Recovery
Julian of Norwich and the Phenomenology of Well-Being
Av Hannah Lucas
Häftad, 2025
350 kr
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Shortlisted, 2026 University English Book Prize, University EnglishThe medieval mystic Julian of Norwich (1342–after 1416) is the first known woman to author a book in the English language, recognized today for her strikingly optimistic claim that “all shall be well.” Her visionary text Revelations …
Abandoned to Lust
Sexual Slander and Ancient Christianity
E-bok, 2005
993 kr
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Early Christians used charges of adultery, incest, and lascivious behavior to demonize their opponents, police insiders, resist pagan rulers, and define what it meant to be a Christian. Christians frequently claimed that they, and they alone were sexually virtuous, comparing themselves to those …
Dying to Be Men
Gender and Language in Early Christian Martyr Texts
Av L. Stephanie Professor Cobb
E-bok, 2008
993 kr
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At once brave and athletic, virtuous and modest, female martyrs in the second and third centuries were depicted as self-possessed gladiators who at the same time exhibited the quintessentially "womanly" qualities of modesty, fertility, and beauty. L. Stephanie Cobb explores the double embodiment of …
Between a Man and a Woman?
Why Conservatives Oppose Same-Sex Marriage
E-bok, 2010
662 kr
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While conservative Christian groups refuse to recognize same-sex marriage, there is more to their debate than biblical literalism or nostalgia for simple gender roles. Investigating why conservative Christians are so energized by an issue that, according to their own statistics, affects only a …
