Radical Grace: Hymning of Womanhood' in Therigatha
Focusing primarily on Therigatha, the poems by the first Buddhist women, and correlating them with the compositions of non-Buddhist women mystics like Meerabai, Lal Ded, Muktabai, Janabai and Akka Mahadevi, this article is a study of spirituality, femininity and poetic expressions in a comparative m...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Sage
[2018]
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Feminist theology
Année: 2018, Volume: 26, Numéro: 2, Pages: 160-170 |
| RelBib Classification: | AG Vie religieuse BL Bouddhisme KBM Asie |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Therigatha
B Buddhist women B Femininity B ascetic feminine spirituality B female body and desire B Transcendence B TIPITAKA. Suttapitaka. Khuddakanikaya. Therigatha B feminist mysticism B Indian women mystic-poets |
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| Résumé: | Focusing primarily on Therigatha, the poems by the first Buddhist women, and correlating them with the compositions of non-Buddhist women mystics like Meerabai, Lal Ded, Muktabai, Janabai and Akka Mahadevi, this article is a study of spirituality, femininity and poetic expressions in a comparative mode. The article aims to address two major issues: First, it attempts to understand how the women mystics asserted their authority as the conveyers of divine message in a society which was essentially patriarchal and suspicious about the credentials of feminine utterances. Second, the article seeks to delineate a certain womanizing of saintliness through the invoking of domesticity (role as wife and mother) and the use of metaphors related to the female body and desire by these select women mystics as the denouement of a radical stance of an ascetic feminine spirituality', aimed at discovering transcendence even by retaining the conscious deploying of the components, often viewed as mundane. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5189 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Feminist theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0966735017738654 |