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Are anxiety or dread negative stages before freedom, a confrontation with humans' own mortality and finitude? Joana Serrado inaugurates anxiousness as a category of mystical knowledge in this innovative historical and philosophical study. Based on the life and mystical writings of Joana de Jesus, a Cistercian nun, intellectual disciple of Teresa of Avila, this study shows the cultural embeddedness of anxiousness: a feeling akin to the Portuguese term »saudade« (yearning, Sehnsucht). A mystical project that reshapes feminist principles of autonomy, agency and desire.
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Keywords
- Catholicism
- Cultural history
- Cultural Studies
- gender
- Gender Studies
- Gender studies, gender groups
- history of religion
- Humanities
- Mysticism
- Philosophy
- Portugal
- Religion
- Religion & beliefs
- Religion: general
- religious studies
- Romance Studies
- Social groups
- Society & culture: general
- Society & Social Sciences
- Teresa of Avila
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DOI: 10.14361/9783839465325Editions