Abstract: This essay examines the life and thought of Juan González Arintero (1860–1928), Dominican theologian and Servant of God, through the lens of Disability Studies. Best known for restoring mystical theology in the early twentieth century and for advancing a universal call to holiness that anticipated Vatican II, Arintero insisted that all Christians, whether religious or laypeople, were...
Este artículo explora el rol del chamán y la ayahuasca en Las tres mitades de Ino Moxo y otros brujos de la Amazonía de César Calvo Soriano como herramientas para pensar y escribir sobre la Amazonía desde otros paradigmas culturales. En una lectura a la cosmovisión y epistemologías indígenas amazónicas desde planteamientos del perspectivismo amerindio, este análisis explora cómo la novela...
Reviewed by: Approaches to Teaching Teresa of Ávila and the Spanish Mystics Amy Alfieri Weber, Alison , ed. Approaches to Teaching Teresa of Ávila and the Spanish Mystics. New York: MLA, 2009. Pp. 297. ISBN 978-1-60329-023-4. Approaches to Teaching Teresa of Ávila and the Spanish Mystics, at almost 300 pages, is one of the longest editions in the Approaches to Teaching World Literature series,...
A LTHOUGH interesting work has been done on the topic of the dream in medieval English, French, and Old Norse literature, relatively few Hispanists have dealt with dreams in any period at all.1 It is my intention to examine the circumstantial setting of dream narratives in medieval Hispanic texts in order to show that literary dreams served as extensions of reality in a body of literature whose...