Religious Intimacies

Mary Dunn is Associate Professor of Early Modern Christianity in the Department of Theological Studies at Saint Louis University. She is author of The Cruelest of All Mothers: Marie de l'Incarnation, Motherhood, and Christian Tradition. Brenna Moore is Associate Professor in the Department of Theology at Fordham University. She is author of Sacred Dread: Raïssa Maritain, the Allure of Suffering, and the French Catholic Revival, 1905–1944.

Introduction: Recovering Relationships as a Path through the Modern Christian West / Mary Dunn and Brenna Moore

1. Body, Subjectivity, and Society in Religious Studies / Constance M. Furey

2. "Thine Own by Adoption": Conversion, Integration, and Fictive Kinship in the Life of Thérèse Oionhaton, Seventeenth-Century Wendat Convert / Emma Anderson

3. Making Miracles Efficacious: Katherine Tekakwitha, Miraculous Cures, and Relational Networks in Seventeenth-Century New France / Mary Dunn

4. Søren Kierkegaard and Religious Sensibility: Communion in Intimate Life / Edward F. Mooney

5. Henry Adams, Clover Adams, and the Death of the Real / Amy Hollywood

6. Objects of Devotion: Intimacy and Material Relations in Mexican Catholicism / Jennifer Scheper Hughes

7. The Rhetoric of Solitude and the Practice of Friendship: Reading Catholic Intellectual History in the Study of Religion / Brenna Moore

8. A Vocation of Contested Intimacies: U.S. Roman Catholic Priesthood in the Mid-Twentieth Century / John Seitz

9. Embracing Nimrod's Legacy: The Erotic, the Irreverence of Fantasy, and the Redemption of Black Theology / Anthony Pinn