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Vaisnavi.Women and the Worship of Krishna
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ISBN: 8120814371 812081438X Year: 1999 Publisher: Delhi Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Limited

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Contributed articles on the lives and teachings of Hindu women saints.


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Women from the Golden legend : female authority in a medieval Castilian sanctoral
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ISBN: 1283620588 9786613933034 1846159989 1855662299 Year: 2011 Volume: 296 Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk ; New York : Tamesis,

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Hagiography was one of the most prolific narrative genres in the Middle Ages. Jacobus de Voragine's 'Golden Legend' (c. 1260), the most popular compendium, was translated into every language in Western Europe. In the medieval Iberian peninsula, the number of conserved hagiographic documents dwarfs those belonging to other narrative genres. This book examines one collection of saints' lives, or sanctorals, and the twenty-five female saints witnessed therein. Their lives furnished exemplary models for women inside and outside the Church, and tell stories of maidens tortured by pagan sovereigns, prostitutes, mothers who see their sons martyred, and women who dress as men in order to avoid being married off to the nearest suitor. This study challenges an understanding of these women as passive recipients of social and spiritual influence by re-situating female authority within the context of vision, language, and performativity. Included in the study are transcriptions of twenty-two previously unedited lives. Emma Gatland is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Cambridge.


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Female Mystics and the Divine Feminine in the Global Sufi Experience
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Year: 2022 Publisher: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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This book offers a specialized study focusing on the phenomenon of the female mystic and the divine feminine in the global Sufi experience. Drawing on classical and modern periods, it presents a considered approach to the topic from the disciplines of literature, history, religion, philosophy, language and linguistics, and anthropology. As each author offers their expertise in their respective fields, each article, therefore, whilst a standalone piece, contributes collectively to the multidisciplinary understanding of the female and the feminine in Sufi experience. The book addresses the topic from different points of view, showing the authors’ interest in subjectivity, literary and artistic productivity, as well as notable figures of importance, but narrows the purview of its examination to case studies, historical periods, and philosophical concerns of relevance. Focused areas of inquiry include the economic power of Sufi women in history; the hierophanic dialectics of mystical Islamic poetry with regard to “the feminine” experience in Yunus Emre; the ontology of the sacred feminine and female mystic in classical Sufi poiesis; the mystical autochthonous presence in local Sufi praxis of Indonesia; reconfigurations of gendered understanding in Argentinian Sufism; and symbolism and spiritual psychology in Sufi cosmology. This book is an interdisciplinary publication that brings together an international host of scholars from around the world, including University of Amsterdam, University of St Gallen, University of Haifa, Western Sydney University, Monash University, and Australian National University.


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Female Mystics and the Divine Feminine in the Global Sufi Experience
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Year: 2022 Publisher: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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This book offers a specialized study focusing on the phenomenon of the female mystic and the divine feminine in the global Sufi experience. Drawing on classical and modern periods, it presents a considered approach to the topic from the disciplines of literature, history, religion, philosophy, language and linguistics, and anthropology. As each author offers their expertise in their respective fields, each article, therefore, whilst a standalone piece, contributes collectively to the multidisciplinary understanding of the female and the feminine in Sufi experience. The book addresses the topic from different points of view, showing the authors’ interest in subjectivity, literary and artistic productivity, as well as notable figures of importance, but narrows the purview of its examination to case studies, historical periods, and philosophical concerns of relevance. Focused areas of inquiry include the economic power of Sufi women in history; the hierophanic dialectics of mystical Islamic poetry with regard to “the feminine” experience in Yunus Emre; the ontology of the sacred feminine and female mystic in classical Sufi poiesis; the mystical autochthonous presence in local Sufi praxis of Indonesia; reconfigurations of gendered understanding in Argentinian Sufism; and symbolism and spiritual psychology in Sufi cosmology. This book is an interdisciplinary publication that brings together an international host of scholars from around the world, including University of Amsterdam, University of St Gallen, University of Haifa, Western Sydney University, Monash University, and Australian National University.


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Female Mystics and the Divine Feminine in the Global Sufi Experience
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Year: 2022 Publisher: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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This book offers a specialized study focusing on the phenomenon of the female mystic and the divine feminine in the global Sufi experience. Drawing on classical and modern periods, it presents a considered approach to the topic from the disciplines of literature, history, religion, philosophy, language and linguistics, and anthropology. As each author offers their expertise in their respective fields, each article, therefore, whilst a standalone piece, contributes collectively to the multidisciplinary understanding of the female and the feminine in Sufi experience. The book addresses the topic from different points of view, showing the authors’ interest in subjectivity, literary and artistic productivity, as well as notable figures of importance, but narrows the purview of its examination to case studies, historical periods, and philosophical concerns of relevance. Focused areas of inquiry include the economic power of Sufi women in history; the hierophanic dialectics of mystical Islamic poetry with regard to “the feminine” experience in Yunus Emre; the ontology of the sacred feminine and female mystic in classical Sufi poiesis; the mystical autochthonous presence in local Sufi praxis of Indonesia; reconfigurations of gendered understanding in Argentinian Sufism; and symbolism and spiritual psychology in Sufi cosmology. This book is an interdisciplinary publication that brings together an international host of scholars from around the world, including University of Amsterdam, University of St Gallen, University of Haifa, Western Sydney University, Monash University, and Australian National University.

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Research & information: general --- sacred feminine --- divine feminine in Sufism --- Sufi orders --- female saints --- female leadership in Sufism --- Dewi Anjani --- Nahdlatul Wathan --- Lombok --- Indonesia --- indigenous feminine --- Sufism --- female mystic --- divine feminine --- phenomenology --- history --- mysticism --- Aredvi Sura Anahita --- Mount Qaf --- Divine Feminine --- Xvarnah --- Khezr --- mystical experience --- Yunus Emre --- the Feminine --- hierophanic dialectics --- deconstruction --- literary analysis --- phenomenology of Sufi --- arfāq al-niswān (women’s donations) --- sisters --- mothers --- ḥaqq al-wālida (mother’s right) --- poverty --- charity --- khidma (service) --- Sufism in Latin America --- Islam in Latin America --- gender and Sufism --- Naqshbandiyya Haqqaniyya --- sacred feminine --- divine feminine in Sufism --- Sufi orders --- female saints --- female leadership in Sufism --- Dewi Anjani --- Nahdlatul Wathan --- Lombok --- Indonesia --- indigenous feminine --- Sufism --- female mystic --- divine feminine --- phenomenology --- history --- mysticism --- Aredvi Sura Anahita --- Mount Qaf --- Divine Feminine --- Xvarnah --- Khezr --- mystical experience --- Yunus Emre --- the Feminine --- hierophanic dialectics --- deconstruction --- literary analysis --- phenomenology of Sufi --- arfāq al-niswān (women’s donations) --- sisters --- mothers --- ḥaqq al-wālida (mother’s right) --- poverty --- charity --- khidma (service) --- Sufism in Latin America --- Islam in Latin America --- gender and Sufism --- Naqshbandiyya Haqqaniyya

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