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Subject(s)

• Christianity and other religions—Hinduism [Browse]
• Hinduism—Relations—Christianity [Browse]
• Love—Religious aspects—Christianity [Browse]
• Love—Religious aspects—Hinduism [Browse]

Series

American Academy of Religion academy series [More in this series]

Summary note

Mirabai, a sixteenth-century Indian princess, wrote passionate love songs to Lord Krishna. Hadewijch, a thirteenth-century European Beguine, wrote of her yearning to become Love itself, to be "God with God." Each woman practiced a full-bodied, sensuously-imaged longing for love; at the same time, each also practiced certain ascetic disciplines. Spanning centuries, continents, and religious traditions, this book juxtaposes Hadewijch's and Mirabai's inextricable energies of longing and letting go as resources for a comparative theology of passionate non-attachment. Within both Hinduism and Christianity, desire and renunciation are often presented as opposites; yet, both Mirabai and Hadewijch, in their own distinct ways, illuminate the integral, tensile relationship between these concepts. Rather than choosing one or the other, each woman's dual practices of longing and letting go not only take her on an inward spiritual journey but also deeply involve her in the beauty and suffering of the wider world. Drawing out crucial differences and intriguing resonances between these two women of faith, Hillgardner develops a Hindu-Christian comparative theology that argues for an interreligious ethic of passionate non-attachment, one capacious and brave enough to hold together our own longings with the desires of others in an interconnected, fragile world. --Publisher description.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-163) and index.

Contents

• 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.

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ISBN

• 9780190455538 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
• 0190455535 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))

LCCN

2016012803

OCLC

950450644

Other standard number

• 40026631657

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