Amy Hollywood

Biographic Data

ID376568
NAMEAmy Hollywood
GIVEN NAMESAmy
FAMILY NAMEHollywood
SIGNATUREHOLLYWOOD A
AFFILIATIONSHarvard University Press
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS36
TOTAL CITATIONS45
AUTHOR COUNT35
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1992
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX3

  • Henry James, Minny Temple, and the “Demon of the Why, Whence, and Whither”

    Amy HollywoodARTICLENOVEL A Forum on Fiction2025

    In the letters he wrote on the occasion of his cousin, Minny Temple's, death, Henry James moves from fierce lament to a manic pleasure in her demise, one premised on the belief that she will now remain forever young, untouched, unchanged—the Platonic ideal of the young American girl. Across his writing life, in his letters, notebooks, novels, stories, plays, travel writing, literary criticism, and memoirs, he both struggles to project this ideal …

  • Towards a Feminist Philosophy of Ritual and Bodily Practice

    Amy Hollywood, Amy M HollywoodCHAPTERDifference in Philosophy of…2024

    The recently emerging field of feminist philosophy of religion often appeals to continental philosophy, yet perhaps without sufficiently altering philosophy of religion’s stated aims and intentions. Like traditional Anglo-American philosophies of religion, Pamela Sue Anderson’s A Feminist Philosophy of Religion (1998), for example, focuses on belief and its justification, arguing that gender must become a crucial analytic category within accounts…

  • Ghosts

    Amy HollywoodARTICLEdifferences2023References: 5

    This essay describes Bersani's exploration of oneness and difference in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, and relates it to a larger discussion of trauma, love, and afterlife

  • Honoré de Balzac, Henry James, and Seraphic Devotions

    Amy HollywoodARTICLERepresentations2021

    Reading Henry James's late novel The Wings of the Dove with Honoré de Balzac's Seraphita, this essay argues that James performs through his novel an act of secular devotion, a memorialization of lost others through which he enables himself to continue to live

  • Dystopia, Utopia, Atopia

    Open AccessAmy HollywoodARTICLEModern Theology2020

    In the face of contemporary critiques of dystopia as engendering political hopelessness and apathy, this article explores the instability of the category of itself. Bringing together work by the German jurist and political philosopher, Carl Schmitt, and the American ex‐patriot poet, H.D., I show that each engages in thought experiments that might be taken as dystopic, but just as easily as utopic – and hence, as refusing the sharp contrast on whi…

  • Walking the line: Unfaith in the MiddleAges

    Open AccessAmy HollywoodARTICLEpostmedieval a journal of…2020

  • Mysticism and the Politics of Theory

    Eleanor Craig, Amy HollywoodARTICLEEnglish Language Notes2018

    In this interview Amy Hollywood talks about her collection of essays Acute Melancholia and how medieval mystical texts might speak to persistent dilemmas in critical theory and philosophy of religion. The relationship between theory and practice is traced back to monastic discourses on the life of contemplation and the life of action. While critique is widely understood to indicate that something is undone or swept away, there is recurring diffic…

  • Clare of Assisi and the Thirteenth-Century Church: Religious Women, Rules, and Resistance. By Catherine M. Mooney

    Open AccessAmy HollywoodARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…2018

    My goal as a scholar of religion and, more specifically, as an historian of Christianity and philosopher of religion is to teach as far as possible from primary materials. Then I have the odd moment of doubt, when it becomes clear a student remains unaware that the material before them, presented in a tidy English translation, is not quite primary material, but a translation from another language of an often very contested text. For this reason, …

  • The Prayer Book of Ursula Begerin

    Open AccessAmy HollywoodARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2017

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  • Miracle and Machine: Jacques Derrida and the Two Sources of Religion, Science, and the Media, written by Michael Naas

    Amy HollywoodARTICLEJournal of Religion in Europe2015

  • On the True, the Real, and Critique in the Study of Religions

    Open AccessAmy HollywoodARTICLERevista de Estudios Sociales2015References: 37

    Religiones, post-secularidad y democracia en América Latina: reconfiguraciones del discurso y la acción política. Documentos

  • A Companion to Meister Eckhart

    Open AccessAmy HollywoodARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2014

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism

    Open AccessAmy Hollywood, Patricia Z BeckmanBOOKCambridge Companion to Christian…2012

    The Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism is a multi-authored interdisciplinary guide to the study of Christian mysticism, with an emphasis on the third through the seventeenth centuries. The book is thematically organized in terms of the central contexts, practices and concepts associated with the mystical life in early, medieval and early modern Christianity. This book looks beyond the term 'mysticism', which was an early modern invention,…

  • Saint Paul and the New Man

    Amy HollywoodARTICLECritical Inquiry2009Cited by: 3References: 1

  • Acute Melancholia

    Open AccessAmy HollywoodARTICLEHarvard Theological Review2006

    Before melancholy, gratitude. First to Elizabeth and Ernest Monrad, for their countless gifts to Harvard University and, today in particular, to the Divinity School. It is a great honor to hold the Elizabeth H. Monrad Chair in Christian Studies and I hope I can do so in ways that at least partially reflect the grace and generosity of the chair's namesake and of its donors. My gratitude to Bill Graham, Dean of the Divinity School, is enormous, bot…

  • Bodily citations: Religion and Judith Butler

    Ellen T Armour, Ellen Armour et al.BOOKBodily citations2006

    "In such works as 'Gender Trouble' and "Bodies That Matter" Judith Butler broke new ground in understanding the construction and performance of identities. While Butler's writings have been crucial and often controversial in the development of feminist and queer theory, 'Bodily Citations' is the first anthology centered on applying her theories to religion. In this collection scholars in anthropology, biblical studies, theology, ethics, and ritua…

  • Mirror of His Beauty: Feminine Images of God from the Bible to the Early Kabbalah (review)

    Amy Hollywood, Amy M HollywoodARTICLEThe Jewish Quarterly Review2005

    Reviewed by: Mirror of His Beauty: Feminine Images of God from the Bible to the Early Kabbalah Amy Hollywood Peter Schäfer . Mirror of His Beauty: Feminine Images of God from the Bible to the Early Kabbalah. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv + 306. At the center of the Peter Schäfer's innovative study stands the Bahir, the earliest kabbalistic tractate, which appeared in Provence at the end of the twelfth century. For the…

  • Lucerna in caliginoso loco: Aspekte des Prophetie-Begriffes in der scholastischen Theologie . Marianne Schlosser

    Amy HollywoodARTICLESpeculum2005

  • Gender, Agency, and the Divine in Religious Historiography

    Amy HollywoodARTICLEThe Journal of Religion2004Cited by: 24References: 6

  • Who Does She Think She is?”: Christian Women's Mysticism

    Open AccessAmy HollywoodARTICLETheology Today2003

    Is the Christian woman mystic's audacious desire for union with God a sign of a very un-Christian pride? How can medieval women, officially denied access to teaching and preaching, speak authoritatively on religious issues while at the same time maintaining the humility expected of them? The paper explores both popular and scholarly claims about Christian women mystics' narcissism and argues that, properly understood, many mystical texts are grou…

  • Joan of Arc and the Politics of NostalgiaFor Fear of the Fire: Joan of Arc and the Limits of Subjectivity. Françoise Meltzer

    Amy HollywoodARTICLEThe Journal of Religion2003

  • Pure Resistance: Queer Virginity in Early Modern English Drama . Theodora A. Jankowski

    Amy HollywoodARTICLEThe Journal of Religion2002

  • The Female Crucifix: Images of St. Wilgefortis Since the Middle Ages . Ilse E. Friesen

    Amy HollywoodARTICLEThe Journal of Religion2002

  • Performativity, Citationality, Ritualization

    Amy HollywoodARTICLEHistory of Religions2002Cited by: 15

  • The Generation of Identity in Late Medieval Hagiography: Speaking the Saint

    Amy Hollywood, Amy M HollywoodARTICLESpiritus2001