Contents
Preface to the Series ix
Acknowledgments x
Introduction 1
PART ONE: MATERIALS Alison Weber Editions Anthologies in Spanish 17 Editions in Spanish 18 Bilingual Editions and Translations 19 The Instructor’s Library Reference Works 20 Historical and Literary Studies 21 Religious and Theological Studies 24 Aids to Teaching Music 25 Internet Resources 26 Illustrated Books 27 Films 28 Teresa in English Translation 30 Amanda Powell The Language of Teresa of Ávila 39 Emily E. Scida
PART TWO: APPROACHES
Historical Perspectives Mysticism in History: The Case of Spain’s Golden Age 47 Elizabeth Rhodes Spanish Mysticism and the Islamic Tradition 57 William Childers Teresa of Ávila and the Question of Jewish Influence 67 Michael McGaha vi contents
Was Teresa of Ávila a Feminist? 74 Bárbara Mujica After Teresa: Mysticism in Seventeenth-Century Europe 83 Cordula van Wyhe
Theoretical Perspectives The Mystical Encounter with Extremity: Teaching Teresa through Psychoanalytic Theory 95 Linda Belau Teaching Spanish Women Mystics with Theories of Autobiography 102 Sherry Velasco Feminist Epistemology and Pedagogy in Teresa of Ávila 107 Barbara Simerka
Specific Course Contexts Making Mysticism Accessible to Undergraduates 114 Lisa Vollendorf Teaching Teresa of Ávila’s The Book of Her Life in the Tradition of Western Spiritual Autobiography 123 Carole Slade Successful Mystics and Failed Mystics: Teaching Teresa of Ávila in the Women’s Studies Classroom 134 Marta V. Vicente Defiance and Obedience: Reading the Spanish Mystics in Historical Context 142 María del Pilar Ryan A Transatlantic Perspective: The Influence of Teresa’s Model on New World Women 148 Kathleen Ann Myers The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: Teaching Teresa of Ávila in a Women Writers Course 157 Alison Weber Strictly Academic? Teaching Religious Texts in a Secular Setting 166 Ralph Keen Teaching Teresa as a Theologian 172 Gillian T. W. Ahlgren Teaching Spanish Mysticism at an Undergraduate Catholic College: Issues of Relevance, Accessibility, and Self-Censorship 181 Dona M. Kercher contents vii
Where’s Teresa? The Construction of Teresa of Ávila in the Visual Arts 190 Christopher C. Wilson
Teaching Specific Texts Reading “Noche oscura” Twice 202 Howard Mancing Teresa of Ávila and Ignatius of Loyola: A Gender-Based Approach to Spiritual Autobiography 208 Darcy Donahue Teaching Imagery and Allegory in Teresa of Ávila’s The Interior Castle 218 Joan Cammarata Teaching Teresa’s Libro de las fundaciones (The Book of Foundations) 225 Helen H. Reed Comparing Humanist and Mystical Understanding in Luis de Léon’s “Noche serena” and John of the Cross’s “La noche oscura” 232 Dana Bultman Teaching Luis de León’s Mystical Poetry as Pilgrimage 240 David H. Darst Mysticism and Early Modern Musical-Cosmological Paradigms 247 Mario A. Ortiz
Notes on Contributors 259
Survey Participants 263
Works Cited 265
Index of Names 291