Mysticism Through the Lens of Gender: Identity and Difference

Published 2019-05-09

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  • Mariel Mazzocco Faculté de théologie, Université de Genève

Abstract

This article concerns the difficult question of the mystical human subject as seen through the lens of gender. After some critical comments on a differentialist perspective and its hope to identify the specificity of a feminine mystical identity, the author shows the limits of a gendered study of mysticism. In conversation with Grace Jantzen, who interprets mysticism as a social construct linked to gender and power relations, this article envisions the mystic as the product of a radical inner experience in relation to God.

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Mazzocco, M. 2019. Mysticism Through the Lens of Gender: Identity and Difference. Revue de Théologie et de Philosophie. 151, 1 (May 2019), 7–16.
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Vol. 151 No. 1 (2019)

Section

Varia