Download or read book Storia laica delle donne religiose written by Ida Magli and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come già in altri suoi libri (si veda ad esempio La Madonna, e Santa Teresa di Liseux, pubblicati entrambi da Rizzoli), articoli e saggi comparsi in varie raccolte, l'antropologa Ida Magli, affronta, questa volta in maniera sistematica, il discorso dell'uso che l'istituzione di potere Chiesa ha fatto delle donne e di come le donne vi siano adattate. Lo affronta in maniera radicale, concludendo che "nessuna teologia femminista è possibile perchè la struttura sacrificale che è stata posta alla base del cristianesimo (...) pone alle donne un problema insolubile": il potere del sacerdote è il potere del sacrificatore, e, se le donne non vogliono più essere vittime, non vogliono essere nemmeno sacrificatrici. (Donatella Maisano).
Download or read book Hindiyya Mystic and Criminal 1720 1798 written by Bernard Heyberger and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling narrative, Bernard Heyberger relates the fascinating history of Hindiyya 'Ujaymi, a highly charismatic eighteenth-century mystic of sinister repute. Heyberger makes a careful study of Hindiyya's life from earliest childhood, with a detailed picture of her formative years in the eighteenth century Christian community of Aleppo, the domestic reality of which is little known, exploring the influences she would have experienced. He leads us through her spiritual development under the direction of the Jesuits, her determination to found a new religious order, and the tragic history of its collapse in a welter of paranoia and persecution. Heyberger also reveals the tensions and complex rivalries at play around Hindiyya between Rome, the Jesuits, and Eastern tribes, which were also beset by feuds and alliances. He makes extensive use of a wide variety of sources, from Hindiyya's own writings to reports from her confessors and Roman inquisitors, to shed light upon the Hindiyya affair. 'Hindiyya, Mystic and Criminal' relates the history of a woman of inflexible power of will and great charisma, who managed to move beyond the circumscribed world of her girlhood and realise what she believed to be her destiny. It will be of great interest to anyone seeking a deeper understanding of an affair which has been long obscured by contradictory reports, or to those interested in eighteenth-century Maronite Christianity and its complex interactions with the authority of Rome.
Download or read book Convent Theatre in Early Modern Italy written by Elissa B. Weaver and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-04 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of convent theatre in Italy, an all-female tradition. Widespread in the early modern period, but virtually forgotten today, this activity produced a number of talented dramatists and works worthy of remembrance. Convent authors, actresses and audiences, especially in Tuscan houses, the plays written and produced, and what these reveal about the lives of convent women, are the focus of this book. Beginning with the earliest known performances of miracle and mystery plays (sacre rappresentazioni) in the late fifteenth century, the book follows the development in the convents at the turn of the sixteenth century of spiritual comedy and of a variety of dramatic forms in the seventeenth century. Convent theatre both reflected the high level of literacy among convent women and contributed to it, and it attested to the continuing close contact between the secular world and the convents - even in the Post Tridentine period.
Download or read book Dark Mother written by Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing a feminist perspective to contemporary findings of geneticists and archeologists, Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum, cultural historian, points out that the oldest veneration we know is of a dark mother of central and south Africa, whose signs-ochre red and the pubic V-were taken by african migrants after 50,000 BCE to caves and cliffs of all continents. The oldest sanctuary in the world was created in 40,000 BCE by african migrants in Har Karkom, later called Mt. Sinai, foundation place of judaism, christianity, and islam.Lucia documents the continuing memory of the dark mother and her values in prehistoric images of the dark mother, in historic black madonnas and in other dark women divinities whose sanctuaries are on african paths. She tracks the memory in rituals and stories of her sicilian grandmothers, in persecution of dark others in patriarchal Europe and the United States, in the rise of nonviolent dark others since the 1960s,in the banners of the 1995 world conference of women at Beijing, and in art. She finds the dark mother's values-justice with compassion, equality, and transformation-in everyday and celebratory rituals of the world's subaltern cultures-and suggests that the image and values are in the submerged memories of everyone.
Download or read book Pazze di Lui Mad for Him Hagiographic Stereotypes Mental Disturbances and Anthropological Implications of Female Saintliness in Italy and Abroad from the 13th to the 20th Century written by Mattia Zangari and published by Narr Francke Attempto Verlag. This book was released on 2024-06-17 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to investigate the delicate relationship between female sanctity and madness, in a time-frame extending from medieval until contemporary times. Constellated by visions, ecstatic raptures, morbid rituals, stigmata and obsessions, the complex phenomenology of female mysticism appears in fact to be articulated and polymorphous, traversed by 'representations' that it seems possible to link to the wide spectrum of mental disorders, as well to the hagiographic stereotypes and anthropological implications. Male and female scholars from different disciplines (from history to philology, from anthropology to art history, from theology to literary criticism, from psychiatry to psychoanalysis) try to outline a thematic and problematic itinerary, intended to examine, step by step, potential pathological aspects and contexts of reference for the purpose of attempting to reconstruct the complex evolutionary trajectory of female mystical language.
Download or read book Italian Quarterly written by Carlo Luigi Golino and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Venice written by Janet Sethre and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2020-01-08 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly textured work examines Venetians’ “Venice-ness” and the city’s humanity. A cultural history wide in scope and original in conception, it explores how people have been shaped by Venice and, in turn, have shaped the city. Meet culture heroes whose defects have helped Venice define its myth and fugitives from the city’s splendor, such as El Greco. Venice’s prisoners numbered cloistered women, the mad, and Jews of the Ghetto. People living in close, durable symbiosis with Venice included Titian, and those fugitives from self who sought wholeness in Venice included Stravinsky.
Download or read book Sacred Eloquence written by Johanna Fassl and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral--Columbia University, 2004).
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Download or read book Signs of Song written by Janet Sethre and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2020-03-29 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born around 1,000 years ago, most probably in Tuscany, Guido d’Arezzo is remembered as the father of modern musical notation. His musical contributions surpassed all former methods of writing music, which did not represent the exact notes to be sung or played. He developed a linear system of musical notation capable of indicating pitch with absolute precision. His innovations accompanied a cultural crisis fundamental to the growth of Western music. While still a boy, Guido entered the Benedictine monastery at Pomposa, on the Adriatic coast. He probably died in the hermitage of Fonte Avellana in about 1050. This book envisions his life in relation to ancient musical history, to plainchant, and to the glories and conflicts of medieval monasticism. In writing of Guido, the author reveals her love for Italy and her fascination with Gregorian chant and Catholic traditions. She says, “Few documents remain concerning Guido’s life. I had to create a framework around his existence, considering ancient musical traditions, plainchant, medieval monasticism, the Italian countryside, and the revolutionary importance of clear notation.”
Download or read book Women Mystic Writers written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Italian Books and Periodicals written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Studi sulla donna written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Feminist Collections written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Women and Faith written by Lucetta Scaraffia and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of Italian women and Catholicism from the fourth through the twentieth century reflects this conflict and the tension between the masculine character of divinity in the Catholic church and the potential for equality in the gospels and early writings ("neither male nor female, but one in Jesus")."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Dove va la storiografia monastica in Europa written by Giancarlo Andenna and published by Vita e Pensiero. This book was released on 2001 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
