Economies of sainthood: disrupting the discourse of female hagiograhy

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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