Acute Melancholia and Other Essays Mysticism, History and the Study of Religion

includes index and biblioraphy

A Triptych ...........1 On the true, the real, and critique, by way of an Introduction ..........2 Henry adams, clover adams, and the death of the real .........19 The unspeakability of Trauma, the unspeakability of joy..........44 Part I ......65 Acute melancholia ........67 Part II History .......91 Feminist studies in Christian spirituality .........93 Gender, agency, and the Divine in Religious historiography ..........117 Reading as self-annihilation : On marguerite porete`s mirror of simple souls .............129 Part III. Sexuality ...............147 Sexual desire, divine desire ; or, Queering the beguines .......149 The normal, the Queer, and the middle ages ...............163 That glorious slit, irigaray and the medieval devotion to Christ`s side wound .............171 4. Practice ..............189 Inside out : Beatrice of Nazareth and her hagiographer ..............191 Performativity, citationality , ritualization ...........213 Practice, belief, and feminist philosophy of religion .............233 part V.........251 Love of Neighbor and love of God : Martha and mary in the Christian middle ages .............253