Mary Dunn
Biographic Data
| ID | 3676692 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Dunn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary |
| FAMILY NAME | Dunn |
| SIGNATURE | DUNN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Saint Louis University |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-7609-6532 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Internalizing symptoms associated with nicotine and THC vaping and poly-product use among youth and young adults
When Play Gets Serious
This article takes as its starting point the deep and enduring attachments between scholars of religion and their religious subjects to which the secular study of religion sometimes gives rise—attachments that can have profoundly transformative intellectual and existential consequences for the scholar. The methodological posture of critique, however, forecloses the possibility of such attachments. As an alternative to critique, the postcritical b…
Disability Matters
Julia Watts Belser’s Loving Our Own Bones is a book with transformative potential, a book that shows “how disability experience can shape our inner lives, how disability can offer insights into the textures and tenor of spiritual life ... [how] disability can be a generative force, a goad to creativity, a source of embodied knowledge” (5). The demand Loving Our Own Bones makes on its readers is that we simply linger with disability. The promise h…
Martyrdom, Rhetoric, and the Affective Remainder
This article takes as its subject a document known as the precieux manuscrit , assembled by Paul Ragueneau, superior of the Jesuit mission in New France, in 1652 as an aid to the canonization of the eight Jesuit missionaries who would come to be known as the North American martyrs. I situate the precieux manuscrit , a text dense with elaborately wrought descriptions of torture, endurance, and expiration, within the context of early modern Jesuit …
Interviews in Global Catholic Studies
A historian of religion, Dunn works in the area of early modern Catholicism.She has
Playing with Religion
This article builds on conversations that began here in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion in 2019 on Jonathan Z. Smith’s legacy to the study of religion. Specifically, in this article I take up and elaborate on Heather Blair’s tentative proposal for thinking about religious studies as a kind of play. Beginning with Blair and engaging with the work of Sam Gill, Tyler Roberts, Robert Orsi, and others, I put forward a strong argument f…
Religious Intimacies
The Impossible Irony of Vatican I
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Apostles of Empire
Given the way in which the Corpus Rubenianum has divided up the Antwerp Jesuit Church into separate and unrelated parts, this self-imposed limitation makes good sense.Indeed, John Rupert Martin's The Ceiling Paintings for the Jesuit Church in Antwerp was the first volume of the Corpus Rubenianum, copyrighted in 1968, over fifty years ago.Hans Vlieghe's Saints ii (1973) includes Rubens's altarpieces of The Miracles of St. Ignatius of Loyola and Th…
Bedside Manners
Situated in the original context of their composition, the Jesuit Relations illuminate something not just of Jesuit discourse as Thomas Worcester has argued, but Jesuit practice too, revealing the ways in which sickness and disease functioned as missionary strategy in New France. In the deft hands of the Jesuits, sickness and disease were opportunities for the conversion of the dying, occasions for the practice of Christian virtue, and invitation…
Religion, Gender, and Kinship in Colonial New France of Book, written by Lisa J.M. Poirier
Rethinking Agency after the Relational Turn
Neither One Thing Nor the Other
This article confirms what others have argued about the bifurcated representation of Amerindian women in the Jesuit Relations (aggressive, insubordinate, prideful, and licentious on the one hand and docile, obedient, humble, and chaste, on the other) but extends the analysis of gendered discourse at work in the text to argue that the Relations persist in characterizing both types of Amerindian women as virile in excess of the limits of prescribed…
What Really Happened
Journal Article What Really Happened: Radical Empiricism and the Historian of Religion Get access Mary Dunn Mary Dunn *Mary Dunn, Department of Theological Studies, St. Louis University, 3800 Lindell Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63108. Email: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 84, Issue 4, December 2016, Pages 881–902, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel…
Becoming Holy in Early Canada
Mysticism, Motherhood, and Pathological Narcissism? A Kohutian Analysis of Marie de l’Incarnation
When ‘Wolves become Lambs’
Writing to her son Claude from Quebec in 1644, Marie de l'Incarnation described the Canadian mission at Tadoussac, attesting to the 'very exemplary life (vie tres exemplaire)'and 'great fervour (grande ferveur)' of Christian converts who 'had been nourished in brutality (avoient este nourris dans la brutalite)'. The French, she went on, 'cried with joy to see wolves become lambs and beasts children of God (pleuroient de joye de voir des loups dev…
When 'Wolves become Lambs
"A Devotion Which … Distinguishes this People from all Others"—The Cult of Saint Anne and the Making of the Colonial Community in Seventeenth-Century New France
Mother of God
Playing with Religion
This article builds on conversations that began here in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion in 2019 on Jonathan Z. Smith’s legacy to the study of religion. Specifically, in this article I take up and elaborate on Heather Blair’s tentative proposal for thinking about religious studies as a kind of play. Beginning with Blair and engaging with the work of Sam Gill, Tyler Roberts, Robert Orsi, and others, I put forward a strong argument f…
When Play Gets Serious
This article takes as its starting point the deep and enduring attachments between scholars of religion and their religious subjects to which the secular study of religion sometimes gives rise—attachments that can have profoundly transformative intellectual and existential consequences for the scholar. The methodological posture of critique, however, forecloses the possibility of such attachments. As an alternative to critique, the postcritical b…
Mother of God
"A Devotion Which … Distinguishes this People from all Others"—The Cult of Saint Anne and the Making of the Colonial Community in Seventeenth-Century New France
When ‘Wolves become Lambs’
Writing to her son Claude from Quebec in 1644, Marie de l'Incarnation described the Canadian mission at Tadoussac, attesting to the 'very exemplary life (vie tres exemplaire)'and 'great fervour (grande ferveur)' of Christian converts who 'had been nourished in brutality (avoient este nourris dans la brutalite)'. The French, she went on, 'cried with joy to see wolves become lambs and beasts children of God (pleuroient de joye de voir des loups dev…
When 'Wolves become Lambs
Mysticism, Motherhood, and Pathological Narcissism? A Kohutian Analysis of Marie de l’Incarnation
Becoming Holy in Early Canada
Neither One Thing Nor the Other
This article confirms what others have argued about the bifurcated representation of Amerindian women in the Jesuit Relations (aggressive, insubordinate, prideful, and licentious on the one hand and docile, obedient, humble, and chaste, on the other) but extends the analysis of gendered discourse at work in the text to argue that the Relations persist in characterizing both types of Amerindian women as virile in excess of the limits of prescribed…
What Really Happened
Journal Article What Really Happened: Radical Empiricism and the Historian of Religion Get access Mary Dunn Mary Dunn *Mary Dunn, Department of Theological Studies, St. Louis University, 3800 Lindell Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63108. Email: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 84, Issue 4, December 2016, Pages 881–902, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel…
Religion, Gender, and Kinship in Colonial New France of Book, written by Lisa J.M. Poirier
Rethinking Agency after the Relational Turn
Bedside Manners
Situated in the original context of their composition, the Jesuit Relations illuminate something not just of Jesuit discourse as Thomas Worcester has argued, but Jesuit practice too, revealing the ways in which sickness and disease functioned as missionary strategy in New France. In the deft hands of the Jesuits, sickness and disease were opportunities for the conversion of the dying, occasions for the practice of Christian virtue, and invitation…
Apostles of Empire
Given the way in which the Corpus Rubenianum has divided up the Antwerp Jesuit Church into separate and unrelated parts, this self-imposed limitation makes good sense.Indeed, John Rupert Martin's The Ceiling Paintings for the Jesuit Church in Antwerp was the first volume of the Corpus Rubenianum, copyrighted in 1968, over fifty years ago.Hans Vlieghe's Saints ii (1973) includes Rubens's altarpieces of The Miracles of St. Ignatius of Loyola and Th…
Religious Intimacies
The Impossible Irony of Vatican I
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Playing with Religion
This article builds on conversations that began here in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion in 2019 on Jonathan Z. Smith’s legacy to the study of religion. Specifically, in this article I take up and elaborate on Heather Blair’s tentative proposal for thinking about religious studies as a kind of play. Beginning with Blair and engaging with the work of Sam Gill, Tyler Roberts, Robert Orsi, and others, I put forward a strong argument f…
Disability Matters
Julia Watts Belser’s Loving Our Own Bones is a book with transformative potential, a book that shows “how disability experience can shape our inner lives, how disability can offer insights into the textures and tenor of spiritual life ... [how] disability can be a generative force, a goad to creativity, a source of embodied knowledge” (5). The demand Loving Our Own Bones makes on its readers is that we simply linger with disability. The promise h…
Martyrdom, Rhetoric, and the Affective Remainder
This article takes as its subject a document known as the precieux manuscrit , assembled by Paul Ragueneau, superior of the Jesuit mission in New France, in 1652 as an aid to the canonization of the eight Jesuit missionaries who would come to be known as the North American martyrs. I situate the precieux manuscrit , a text dense with elaborately wrought descriptions of torture, endurance, and expiration, within the context of early modern Jesuit …
Interviews in Global Catholic Studies
A historian of religion, Dunn works in the area of early modern Catholicism.She has
When Play Gets Serious
This article takes as its starting point the deep and enduring attachments between scholars of religion and their religious subjects to which the secular study of religion sometimes gives rise—attachments that can have profoundly transformative intellectual and existential consequences for the scholar. The methodological posture of critique, however, forecloses the possibility of such attachments. As an alternative to critique, the postcritical b…
Internalizing symptoms associated with nicotine and THC vaping and poly-product use among youth and young adults
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