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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136229903321

Autore

Hillgardner Holly

Titolo

Longing and letting go : Christian and Hindu practices of passionate non-attachment / / Holly Hillgardner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016

ISBN

0-19-063748-X

0-19-045555-1

0-19-045554-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

American Academy of Religion academy series

Disciplina

204.4

Soggetti

Christianity and other religions - Hinduism

Hinduism - Relations - Christianity

Love - Religious aspects - Christianity

Love - Religious aspects - Hinduism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The paradox of longing and letting go -- Mirabai's love-longing and passionate non-attachment -- Looking closer : Mirabai's voices of longing and letting go -- Hadewijch's love-longing and passionate non-attachment -- Looking closer : Hadewijch's voices of longing and letting go -- Longing together : comparative practices of passionate non-attachment -- Becoming undone : Mirabai, Hadewijch and dispossession -- Toward an interreligious ethic of passionate non-attachment.

Sommario/riassunto

Comparative theology investigates and negotiates the borders between religious traditions; at best, it also unsettles theological assumptions and results in greater interreligious empathy and understanding for an interconnected, pluralistic world. Toward these aims, this work explores and compares the energies of desire and non-attachment in the writings of two women mystics who lived in very different times and places: Hadewijch, a thirteenth-century Christian Beguine, and Mirabai, a sixteenth-century Hindu bhakti saint.