Women and miracle stories : a multidisciplinary exploration / / edited by Anne-Marie Korte.

• Superior document: Numen book series. Studies in the history of religions, v. 88
• TeilnehmendeR: Korte, Anne-Marie, 1957-
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the history of religions ; 88.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (365 p.)
• Notes: Originally published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, c2001.

This book contains a multidisciplinary collection of studies on women in miracle stories found in texts ranging from religious classics to contemporary literary fiction. Miracle stories are a genre of great importance for the study of women's religious inheritance and for the historical and cul...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Preface
• Contributors
• Women and Miracle Stories: Introduction / Anne-Marie Korte
• Magic, Miracle and Miracle Workers in the Acts of Thecla / Misset-van de Weg Magda
• Fatherly and motherly Curing in Sixth-Century Gaul: Saint Radegund's Mysterium / Giselle de Nie
• Women in Columba's Life, as Seen Through the Eyes of His Biographer Adomnán / Jacqueline Borsje
• Fresh Water for A Tired Soul: Pregnancy and Messianic Desire in A Mediaeval Jewish Document from Sicily / Marcel Poorthuis and Chana Safrai
• The Life of Christina Mirabilis Miracles and the Construction of Marginality / Anke E. Passenier
• In Pain You Shall Bear Children (Gen 3:16): Medieval Prayers for a Safe Delivery / Marianne Elsakkers
• A Woman Alone: The Beatification of Friederike Hauffe Née Wanner (1801-1829) / Wouter J. Hanegraaff
• Māriyamman's Śakti: The Miraculous Power of A Smallpox Goddess / Anne van Voorthuizen
• Women and Miracles in the Stories of Ingeborg Bachmann / Ilse N. Bulhof
• Miracles of Desire: Transfigurations in Rhoda Lerman's The Book of the Nicht / Inez van der Spek
• A Different Grace: Epilogue / Anne-Marie Korte
• Index of Authors
• Index of Subjects
• Studies in the History of Religions Numen Book Series.