Gender and Medieval Mysticism from India to Europe

This book opens up a dialogue between pre-modern women identified as mystics in diverse locations from South Asia to Europe.

Autorentext

Alexandra Verini is an Assistant Professor of English at Ashoka University.

Abir Bazaz is an Assistant Professor of English at Ashoka University.

Inhalt

1 Introduction

Alexandra Verini

Part I Mysticism as Resistance

2 Weeping as Resistance in Islamic and Christian Contemplative Hagiography ****

Ayoush Lazikani

3 Mysticism between Women in Early Medieval England

Kathryn Maude

4 Public Scandal and Mystical Marriage: Margery Kempe and Mrba

Katherine Zieman

Part II Reimagining the Female Mystic

5 Tongue Untied: Women and Forbidden Speech in Medieval India

Subhashree Chakravarty

6 Enclosed Life and Mystical Form in the Ancrene Wisse

Aparna Chaudhuri

7 Gender Fluidity in Sìrvaisònòava Theology: The Status of the Cowherd Women

Manasicha Akepiyapornchai

Part III Shaping Mystical Femininity

8 The Discipline of Mahadevi and Lalla: Religious Ambiguity in the Gendering of Ascetic Female Hindu Saints

Dean Accardi

9 Imagined femininity in Sant Mysticism

Galina Rousseva-Sokolova

10 Invoking Mirabai: Elision and Illumination in the Global Study of Women Mystics

Nancy Martin

Part IV Women Mystics Across Time

11 Swaying in the Presence of the Saints: Women's Mediation of Spiritual Authority in the Sidi Sufi Devotional Tradition of Gujarat

Jazmin Graves

12 Love Knows no Bounds: Contemporary Artist Engagement with Marguerite Porete and Hadewijch

Louise Nelstrop

13 Afterword

Liz Herbert McAvoy