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Mysticism and Gender - Mistica Y Genero - Mystik Und Geschlecht

Mysticism and Gender - Mistica Y Genero - Mystik Und Geschlecht

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Series: Journal of the European Society of Women in Theological Rese, Book 23

General ChristianityGeneral Gender Studies

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ISBN10: 9042933011
ISBN13: 9789042933019
Publisher: Peeters
Published: Dec 9 2015
Pages: 159
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.20
Language: German
2015 marks the five-hundredth anniversary of the Spanish mystic St. Teresa of Avila. This volume of the Journal of ESWTR is therefore dedicated to the issue of mysticism and gender. The mystical experience is a radical confrontation with oneself, where one recognizes one's boundaries and is at the same time called to transgress them; it is a mystical transformation of the self that then will be able to transform unjust structures. Can mysticism today still unfold these capacities of transformation of self and societies, given the problems we are faced with? Using gender as a category of analysis, and adopting a gender-sensitive stand, the articles in this volume explore questions such as: How do issues of gender shape the relationship between mysticism and power? How have women mystics contributed to the field of mysticism? How can mysticism unfold a transformative power, both for individuals and societies? In short, what do we mean by mysticism today?

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