Gender and Medieval Mysticism from India to Europe [Paperback]

1 Introduction

2 Weeping as Resistance in Islamic and Christian Contemplative Hagiography

3 Mysticism between Women in Early Medieval England

4 Public Scandal and Mystical Marriage: Margery Kempe and M+r
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5 Tongue Untied: Women and Forbidden Speech in Medieval India

6 Enclosed Life and Mystical Form in the Ancrene Wisse

7 Gender Fluidity in S?r+vais?n?ava Theology: The Status of the Cowherd Women

8 The Discipline of Mahadevi and Lalla: Religious Ambiguity in the Gendering of Ascetic Female Hindu Saints

9 Imagined femininity in Sant Mysticism

10 Invoking Mirabai: Elision and Illumination in the Global Study of Women Mystics

11 Swaying in the Presence of the Saints: Women's Mediation of Spiritual Authority in the Sidi Sufi Devotional Tradition of Gujarat

12 Love Knows no Bounds: Contemporary Artist Engagement with Marguerite Porete and Hadewijch