She Climbs Toward the Light: Karen Armstrong's The Spiral Staircase in a World of Displaced Women
The Spiral Staircase, Karen Armstrong's self-narrative, shows the limitations of theological or religious reflections within a specific religious community. Leaving the Sisters of Charity for a tumultuous academic life, historian of religion Karen Armstrong lives a wrenching ontological disloca...
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Tipo di documento: | Elettronico Articolo |
Lingua: | Inglese |
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Sage
[2019]
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Feminist theology
Anno: 2019, Volume: 27, Fascicolo: 2, Pagine: 126-140 |
Notazioni IxTheo: | CB Esistenza cristiana KAJ Età contemporanea KCA Ordine religioso KDB Chiesa cattolica NBE Antropologia |
Altre parole chiave: | B
Resistance
B dislocation B semiotic path B Epilepsy B Convent B Compassion B Power B Displaced Persons |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) |
Riepilogo: | The Spiral Staircase, Karen Armstrong's self-narrative, shows the limitations of theological or religious reflections within a specific religious community. Leaving the Sisters of Charity for a tumultuous academic life, historian of religion Karen Armstrong lives a wrenching ontological dislocation that originates in her undiagnosed epilepsy and negative body experiences. Using semiotician Algirdas Greimas's 'Semiotic Square' as an interpretive strategy, the unresolved tensions and contradictions exposed in the deep narrative structure of this non-traditional conversion memoir are resolved by 'compassion' at the manifest level. Armstrong's experiences, both in and out of the convent, will inform her academic study and lead her to compassionate solidarity with the marginalized. Armstrong's memoir reveals various internal and external forces that shape an individual woman's way of being in the world, and that inform her investigation of multiple faith practices and beliefs. In a time of mass refugee migration and 'homelessness', the one woman, the one 'other', matters in how one thinks about the body and about God. |
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ISSN: | 1745-5189 |
Comprende: | Enthalten in: Feminist theology
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0966735018814677 |