Women and Miracle Stories: A Multidisciplinary Approach

Edited and Prefaced by Anne-Marie Korte; Contributing authors: Jacqueline Borsje, Ilse Bulhof, Marianne Elsakkers, Wouter Hanegraaff, Anne-Marie Korte, Magda Misset-van de Weg, Giselle de Nie, Anke Passenier, Marcel Poorthuis, Chana Safrai, Inez van der Spek, and Anne van Voorthuizen.

ISBN 10: 9004116818 / ISBN 13: 9789004116818

Published by E.J. Brill, Leiden, Zuid-Holland / Boston, Massachusetts, 2001

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xi, 350 pp. Numen Book Series: Studies in the History of Religions. Volume LXXXVIII. LCC: 1698834.

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• Title: Women and Miracle Stories: A Multidisciplinary Approach
• Publisher: E.J. Brill, Leiden, Zuid-Holland / Boston, Massachusetts
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004116818
• ISBN 13: 9789004116818
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very good condition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very good
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Synopsis

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 cultural understanding of women as 'makers of faith'. Miracle stories are very generally speaking more open to popular religion and culture than, for instance, doctrinal and official ecclesiastical texts, and as such, they can be of special interest to the study of women's lives and religious aspirations. Remarkably, up till now this genre has not been looked at from this point of view. This book aims to open this field for further research by presenting case studies from diverse angles and disciplines.
Some of the questions this book tries to answer are: What do miracle stories specifically tell us about women? Are there some (types of) miracles that are in particular related to (certain groups of) women? What do these stories tell us about women as performers and/or subjects of miracles? What can be said about the social function and religious meaning of miracles by specifically looking at the way certain groups of women are practising and experiencing miracles? By including research on miracle stories in contemporary fiction written by women this book also wants to acknowledge and research the disputed status of 'miracles' as well of 'women' in our present society which is moving from modernity to post-modernity.

About the Author

Anne-Marie Korte is Professor of Theological Women's Studies at the Catholic Theological University in Utrecht, The Netherlands and coordinates the research program "Women and Miracle-stories". She published a study on Mary Daly, Een passie voor trancendentie (Kampen: Kok, 1992) and co-edited the series Proeven van vrouwenstudies theologie (Utrecht/Leiden, IWFT/IIMO, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1996).