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Amy Hollywood

Amy Hollywood is an American scholar of religion. She is Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies at the Harvard Divinity School.

Amy Hollywood
Alma materBryn Mawr College
University of Chicago
EmployerHarvard Divinity School
TitleElizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies

Education

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Hollywood attended Bryn Mawr College, studying religion and graduating with high honors in 1985.[1] She then earned a master's in religious studies (1986) and doctorate in theology (1991) from the University of Chicago.[1]

Career

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In 1997 Hollywood won the Otto Grundler Prize for the best book in medieval studies from the International Congress of Medieval Studies for her book The Soul as Virgin Wife: Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart.[2] The book was based on her doctoral thesis.[3]

Hollywood taught at Syracuse University and Rhodes College, then Dartmouth College until 2003 when she returned to the University of Chicago.[4][1] At Chicago she was Professor of Theology and the History of Christianity in the Divinity School.[3] In 2005, she joined the faculty of Harvard Divinity School, where she is Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies.[5]

Works

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  • The Soul as Virgin Wife: Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart (University of Notre Dame Press, 1995)[6][7][8][9][10]
  • Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History (University of Chicago Press, 2002)[11][12][13][14][15][16]
  • Acute Melancholia and Other Essays (Columbia University Press, 2016)[17][18][19]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Gianaro, Catherine; Harms, William; Sanders, Seth; Koppes, Steve (September 25, 2003). "University welcomes 10 new faculty members". University of Chicago Chronicle. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
  2. ^ "Gründler Book Prize". Western Michigan University. 2014-09-30. Archived from the original on 2022-08-18. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
  3. ^ a b Sanders, Seth (March 18, 2004). "Hollywood studies mysticism through the lens of philosophy, psychoanalysis, feminist theory". The University of Chicago Chronicle. Archived from the original on 2022-08-18. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
  4. ^ Rosenthal, Randy (November 28, 2016). "Exploring the Place of the Mystical". Harvard Divinity School News. Archived from the original on 2022-08-19. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
  5. ^ "Amy Hollywood". hds.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on 2022-08-18. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
  6. ^ Woods, Richard. "The Soul as Virgin Wife: Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart." Anglican Theological Review 79, no. 4 (1997): 613.
  7. ^ Erb, Peter (1996-11-01). "Dialectic and narrative in Aquinas; The soul as virgin wife; On evil (3 books)". Consensus. 22 (2). ISSN 2369-2685. Archived from the original on 2020-07-19. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
  8. ^ Robertson, Elizabeth (1999). "Review of The Soul as Virgin Wife: Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart". Speculum. 74 (2): 432–434. doi:10.2307/2887087. ISSN 0038-7134. JSTOR 2887087.
  9. ^ Babinsky, Ellen L. (December 1998). "The Soul as Virgin Wife: Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart. By Amy Hollywood. Studies in Spirituality and Theology 1. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995. x + 331 pp. $32.95 cloth". Church History. 67 (4): 772–774. doi:10.2307/3169872. ISSN 1755-2613. JSTOR 3169872. S2CID 162256083. Archived from the original on 2022-08-18. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
  10. ^ Meconi, David. "The voices of Mechthild of Magdeburg/The soul as virgin wife. Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart." The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 53, no. 2 (2002): 354.
  11. ^ McInerney, Maud. "Review of Amy Hollywood, Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History." Archived 2022-08-18 at the Wayback Machine Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature 4, no. 2 (2004): 2.
  12. ^ Pescatori, Rossella (2004). "Sensible Ecstasy. Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History by Amy Hollywood (review)". Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 35 (1): 230–232. doi:10.1353/cjm.2004.0032. ISSN 1557-0290. S2CID 161978596. Archived from the original on 2018-06-02. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
  13. ^ Best, Victoria (2004). "Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History by Amy Hollywood (review)". Modern Language Review. 99 (3): 791. doi:10.2307/3739054. ISSN 2222-4319. JSTOR 3739054. S2CID 258099469.
  14. ^ Klepper, Deeana (2003). "Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History". The Medieval Review. 9. Archived from the original on 2022-08-18. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
  15. ^ Chance, Jane (2003). "Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of HistoryAmy Hollywood". Speculum. 78 (3): 896–899. doi:10.1017/S0038713400131902. Archived from the original on 2022-08-18. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
  16. ^ Kripal, Jeffrey J. (2003-10-01). "Mystical Bodies: Reflections on Amy Hollywood's "Sensible Ecstasy"". The Journal of Religion. 83 (4): 593–598. doi:10.1086/491401. ISSN 0022-4189. S2CID 170306802. Archived from the original on 2022-08-18. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
  17. ^ Young, Glenn (2017). "Acute Melancholia and Other Essays: Mysticism, History, and the Study of Religion by Amy Hollywood (review)". Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality. 17 (1): 124–126. doi:10.1353/scs.2017.0017. ISSN 1535-3117. S2CID 152074330. Archived from the original on 2018-06-03. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
  18. ^ Newman, Barbara (March 2017). "Acute Melancholia and Other Essays: Mysticism, History, and the Study of Religion. By Amy Hollywood . Gender, Theory, and Religion. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. xii + 398 pp. $35.00 paper". Church History. 86 (1): 213–215. doi:10.1017/S0009640717000208. ISSN 0009-6407. S2CID 164736492. Archived from the original on 2022-08-18. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
  19. ^ Mian, Ali Altaf (2017). "Acute Melancholia and Other Essays: Mysticism, History, and the Study of Religion. By Amy Hollywood". Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 85 (2): 564–567. doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfx003.
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