- Title
- Economies of sainthood: disrupting the discourse of female hagiograhy
- Creator
- McPhillips, Kathleen
- Relation
- Women, Religion, and the Gift: An Abundance of Riches p. 57-68
- Relation
- Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures 17
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43189-5
- Publisher
- Springer
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- Kathleen McPhillips undertakes a critical appraisal of traditional hagiographies of women saints. Her critical reading of the depiction of Mary MacKillop, a recently canonized Australian nun, indicates that Mary did not conform to conventional ideals of patience, humility, or of submission to male clerical authority. McPhillips raises questions concerning the production of a “masculinized” version of female sainthood and wonders how its normative constraints can be disrupted by a transgressive mode of reading. While such a reading is not, in the strict sense of the term, a gift, it promotes deeper and more realistic insights.
- Subject
- saint/sainthood; holiness; excommunication; embodied spirituality; hospitality; Jacques Derrida; body; suffering; male clerics; authority; feminist hagiography; fissures; resistance; disjunctive
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1350065
- Identifier
- uon:30482
- Identifier
- ISBN:9783319431895
- Language
- eng
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