Mysticism and Gender – Mistica y genero – Mystik und Geschlecht

edited by A. Baracco Colombo, S. Gudmarsdottir, S. Martinez Cano, R. Perintfalvi and S. Knauss

Book cover: Mysticism and Gender – Mistica y genero – Mystik und Geschlecht

Extent: 159 pages

Publisher: Peeters Publishers

Subjects: Gender & Sexuality, Religious Studies

Series: Journal of the European Society of Women in Theological Research

Series volume number: 23

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(December 2015)

ISBN: 9789042933019

Price: $63.00

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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?


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?

  • Edited by A Baracco Colombo
  • Edited by S Gudmarsdottir
  • Edited by S. Knauss
  • Edited by S Martinez Cano
  • Edited by R Perintfalvi