Women and Miracle Stories : A Multidisciplinary Exploration /
This book contains a multidisciplinary collection of studies on women in miracle stories found in texts ranging from religious classics to contemporary literary fiction. Miracle stories are a genre of great importance for the study of women's religious inheritance and for the historical and cul...
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Format: eBook
Language: English
Published:
Leiden, Boston :
BRILL,
2004.
Series:
Numen Book Series
88.
Numen Book Series Online, ISBN: 9789004380837.
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Call Number: BL487
- Preliminary Material
- Preface
- Contributors
- Women and Miracle Stories: Introduction /
- Anne-Marie Korte
- Magic, Miracle and Miracle Workers in the Acts of Thecla /
- Misset-van de Weg Magda
- Fatherly and motherly Curing in Sixth-Century Gaul: Saint Radegund's Mysterium /
- Giselle de Nie
- Women in Columba's Life, as Seen Through the Eyes of His Biographer Adomnán /
- Jacqueline Borsje
- Fresh Water for A Tired Soul: Pregnancy and Messianic Desire in A Mediaeval Jewish Document from Sicily /
- Marcel Poorthuis and Chana Safrai
- The Life of Christina Mirabilis Miracles and the Construction of Marginality /
- Anke E. Passenier
- In Pain You Shall Bear Children (Gen 3:16): Medieval Prayers for a Safe Delivery /
- Marianne Elsakkers
- A Woman Alone: The Beatification of Friederike Hauffe Née Wanner (1801-1829) /
- Wouter J. Hanegraaff
- Māriyamman's Śakti: The Miraculous Power of A Smallpox Goddess /
- Anne van Voorthuizen
- Women and Miracles in the Stories of Ingeborg Bachmann /
- Ilse N. Bulhof
- Miracles of Desire: Transfigurations in Rhoda Lerman's The Book of the Nicht /
- Inez van der Spek
- A Different Grace: Epilogue /
- Anne-Marie Korte
- Index of Authors
- Index of Subjects
- Studies in the History of Religions Numen Book Series.