Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 224 pages)
ISBN:
0253049873
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9780253049872
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9780253052544
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0253052548
Inhalt:
"Religious Intimacies examines the history of modern Christianity by exploring intimate bonds through the lens of faith-confessors and penitents, husbands and wives, friends, lovers, and priests. Although many scholars have examined the nature of our ties to others as part of the process of self-formation, religious scholarship has remained inattentive to the power of these intimate bonds. In this collection of essays, each contributor considers a moment in Christian history, examining how intimate relationships intertwined with modern Christianity and Western power and politics. In doing so, editors Mary Dunn and Brenna Moore recast our understanding of modern Christianity by placing interpersonal relationships at the forefront of understanding our relationship to the divine"--
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Recovering Relationships as a Path through the Modern Christian West / Mary Dunn and Brenna Moore -- 1. Body, Society, and Subjectivity in Religious Studies / Constance M. Furey -- 2. "Thine Own by Adoption": Conversion, Integration, and Fictive Kinship in the Life of Thérèse Oionhaton, Seventeenth-Century Wendat Convert / Emma Anderson -- 3. Making Miracles Efficacious: Katherine Tekakwitha, Miraculous Cures, and Relational Networks in Seventeenth-Century New France / Mary Dunn
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4. Søren Kierkegaard and Religious Sensibility: Communion in Intimate Life / Edward F. Mooney -- 5. Henry Adams, Clover Adams, and the Death of the Real / Amy Hollywood -- 6. Objects of Devotion: Intimacy and Material Relations in Mexican Catholicism / Jennifer Scheper Hughes -- 7. The Rhetoric of Solitude and the Practice of Friendship: Reading Catholic Intellectual History in the Study of Religion / Brenna Moore -- 8. A Vocation of Contested Intimacies: US Roman Catholic Priesthood in the Mid-Twentieth Century /John Seitz
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9. Embracing Nimrod's Legacy: The Erotic, the Irreverence of Fantasy, and the Redemption of Black Theology / Anthony Pinn -- Index -- About the Author
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780253049858
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780253049865
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Religious intimacies Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2020 ISBN 9780253049858
Sprache:
Englisch
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