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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Other Authors: Korte, Anna (Editor)

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

Table of Contents:
  • 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.