4. Reading as Self-Annihilation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. A Triptych
6. On the True, the Real, and Critique; By Way of an Introduction 1
7. Henry Adams, Clover Adams, and the Death of the Real 19
8. The Unspeakability of Trauma, the Unspeakability of Joy 44
9. Part I
10. 1. Acute Melancholia 67
11. Part II. History
12. 2. Feminist Studies in Christian Spirituality 93
13. 3. Gender, Agency, and the Divine in Religious Historiography 117
14. 4. Reading as Self-Annihilation 129
15. Part III. Sexuality
16. 5. Sexual Desire, Divine Desire; Or, Queering the Beguines 149
17. 6. The Normal, the Queer, and the Middle Ages 163
18. 7. “That Glorious Slit” 171
19. Part IV. Practice
20. 8. Inside Out 191
21. 9. Performativity, Citationality, Ritualization 213
22. 10. Practice, Belief, and Feminist Philosophy of Religion 233
23. Part V
24. 11. Love of Neighbor and Love of God 253
25. Notes 271
26. Sources 375
27. Index 377