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Women and goddess traditions : in antiquity and today / edited by Karen L. King ; with an introduction by Karen Jo Torjesen.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in antiquity and ChristianityPublisher: Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [1997]Copyright date: ©1997Description: xiv, 450 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0800629191
  • 9780800629199
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 200.82
LOC classification:
  • BL458. W563 1997
Contents:
Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- 1. The Goddess and Women's Power: A Hindu Case Study -- 2. Glorifying the Great Goddess or Great Woman? Hindu Women's Experience in Ritual Recitation of the Devi-Mahatmya -- 3. Radha's Audacity in Kirtan Performances and Women's Status in Greater Bengal -- 4. Hindu Women and Ritual Empowerment -- 5. Worship of Women in Tantric Buddhism: Male Is to Female as Devotee Is to Goddess -- 6. Stories of Enlightened Women in Ch'an and the Chinese Buddhist Female Bodhisattva/Goddess Tradition -- 7. The Queen Mother and the Cult in the Ancient Near East -- 8. Queens and Goddesses in Ancient Egypt -- 9. Transforming Goddess Iconography in Hebrew Narrative -- 10. Wisdom/Sophia, Hellenistic Queens, and Women's Lives -- 11. The Rise and Fall of Female Reproductive Control as Seen through Images of Women -- 12. The Strange Woman of Proverbs: A Study in the Feminization and Divinization of Evil in Biblical Thought -- 13. Carrying Water in a Sieve: Class and the Body in Roman Women's Religion -- 14. Goddesses and the Lives of Women -- 15. Some Buddhist Perspectives on the Goddess -- 16. Missing Goddesses, Missing Women: Reflections of a Middle-Aged Amazon -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- 1. The Goddess and Women's Power: A Hindu Case Study -- 2. Glorifying the Great Goddess or Great Woman? Hindu Women's Experience in Ritual Recitation of the Devi-Mahatmya -- 3. Radha's Audacity in Kirtan Performances and Women's Status in Greater Bengal -- 4. Hindu Women and Ritual Empowerment -- 5. Worship of Women in Tantric Buddhism: Male Is to Female as Devotee Is to Goddess -- 6. Stories of Enlightened Women in Ch'an and the Chinese Buddhist Female Bodhisattva/Goddess Tradition -- 7. The Queen Mother and the Cult in the Ancient Near East -- 8. Queens and Goddesses in Ancient Egypt -- 9. Transforming Goddess Iconography in Hebrew Narrative -- 10. Wisdom/Sophia, Hellenistic Queens, and Women's Lives -- 11. The Rise and Fall of Female Reproductive Control as Seen through Images of Women -- 12. The Strange Woman of Proverbs: A Study in the Feminization and Divinization of Evil in Biblical Thought -- 13. Carrying Water in a Sieve: Class and the Body in Roman Women's Religion -- 14. Goddesses and the Lives of Women -- 15. Some Buddhist Perspectives on the Goddess -- 16. Missing Goddesses, Missing Women: Reflections of a Middle-Aged Amazon -- Index.

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