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Book Synopsis Goddess Obscured by : Pamela C. Berger
Download or read book Goddess Obscured written by Pamela C. Berger and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1988-02-29 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the story of the grain protectress, an image that has persisted from the ancient Near East to the classical world and still survives in folksongs and village celebrations today.
Book Synopsis The Goddess Obscured by : Pamela C. Berger
Download or read book The Goddess Obscured written by Pamela C. Berger and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reinventing Eden by : Carolyn Merchant
Download or read book Reinventing Eden written by Carolyn Merchant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visionary quests to return to the Garden of Eden have shaped Western culture from Columbus' voyages to today's tropical island retreats. Few narratives are so powerful - and, as Carolyn Merchant shows, so misguided and destructive - as the dream of recapturing a lost paradise. A sweeping account of these quixotic endeavors by one of America's leading environmentalists, Reinventing Eden traces the idea of rebuilding the primeval garden from its origins to its latest incarnations in shopping malls, theme parks and gated communities. With eloquence and insight, Merchant shows how the drive to conquer nature and to explore and settle the globe, springs from this utopian pastoral impulse throughout Western history. Time and again, human manipulation of the environment is our downfall: Eden is achieved by fencing off pristine beauty in national parks and wildlife preserves, while leaving the majority of the earth in ruins. Challenging both narratives, Merchant argues that the green veneer of city-park conservation has become a cover for the corruption of the earth and the neglect of its environment. Reinventing Eden is a bold new way to think about the earth that includes green political parties, sustainable development and a partnership between humans and earth that is nothing short of an ecological revolution.
Book Synopsis Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages by : Jane Chance
Download or read book Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages written by Jane Chance and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The women who spoke or wrote in the margins of the Middle Ages—women who were oppressed and diminished by social and religious institutions—often were not literate. Or, if they could read, they did not know how to write. Transforming or subverting Western and patristic traditions associated with the clergy, they also turned to Eastern and North African traditions and to popular oral theater, and focused in their choice of genre on lyric, romance, and confessional autobiography. These essays analyze their texts and reconstruct a medieval feminine aesthetic that begins a rewriting of cultural and literary history.
Book Synopsis The Myth of the Goddess by : Anne Baring
Download or read book The Myth of the Goddess written by Anne Baring and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1993-03-25 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, scholarly accessible study, in which the authors draw upon poetry and mythology, art and literature, archaeology and psychology to show how the myth of the goddess has been lost from our formal Judeo-Christian images of the divine. They explain what happened to the goddess, when, and how she was excluded from western culture, and the implications of this loss.
Book Synopsis The Roman Goddess Ceres by : Barbette Stanley Spaeth
Download or read book The Roman Goddess Ceres written by Barbette Stanley Spaeth and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thematic study of the Roman goddess of agriculture as represented in ancient culture from the prehistoric period to the Late Roman Empire. Interest in goddess worship is growing in contemporary society, as women seek models for feminine spirituality and wholeness. New cults are developing around ancient goddesses from many cultures, although their modern adherents often envision and interpret the goddesses very differently than their original worshippers did. In this thematic study of the Roman goddess Ceres, Barbette Spaeth explores the rich complexity of meanings and functions that grew up around the goddess from the prehistoric period to the Late Roman Empire. In particular, she examines two major concepts, fertility and liminality, and two social categories, the plebs and women, which were inextricably linked with Ceres in the Roman mind. Spaeth then analyzes an image of the goddess in a relief of the Ara Pacis, an important state monument of the Augustan period, showing how it incorporates all these varied roles and associations of Ceres. This interpretation represents a new contribution to art history. With its use of literary, epigraphical, numismatic, artistic, and archaeological evidence, The Roman Goddess Ceres presents a more encompassing view of the goddess than was previously available. It will be important reading for all students of Classics, as well as for a general audience interested in New Age, feminist, or pagan spirituality.
Book Synopsis Roles of the Northern Goddess by : Dr Hilda Ellis Davidson
Download or read book Roles of the Northern Goddess written by Dr Hilda Ellis Davidson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While much work has been done on goddesses of the ancient world and the male gods of pre-Christian Scandinavia, the northern goddesses have been largely neglected. Roles of the Northern Goddess presents a highly readable study of the worship of these goddesses by men and women. With its use of evidence from early literature, popular tradition, legend and archaeology, this book investigates the role of the early hunting goddess and the local goddesses who were involved in all aspects of the household and the farm. What emerges is that the goddess was both benevolent and destructive, a powerful figure closely concerned with birth and death and with destiny of individuals.
Book Synopsis The Goddesses' Mirror by : David R. Kinsley
Download or read book The Goddesses' Mirror written by David R. Kinsley and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the cultural background and meaning of ten goddesses, including Aphrodite, Isis, Athena, Durga, Laksmi, and Sita
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Goddesses and Heroines by : Patricia Monaghan, PhD
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Goddesses and Heroines written by Patricia Monaghan, PhD and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2014-04-06 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More Than 1,000 Goddesses & Heroines from around the World Groundbreaking scholar Patricia Monaghan spent her life researching, writing about, and documenting goddesses and heroines from all religions and all corners of the globe. Her work demonstrated that from the beginning of recorded history, goddesses reigned alongside their male counterparts as figures of inspiration and awe. Drawing on anthropology, folklore, literature, and psychology, Monaghan’s vibrant and accessible encyclopedia covers female deities from Africa, the eastern Mediterranean, Asia and Oceania, Europe, and the Americas, as well as every major religious tradition.
Book Synopsis Pagan Every Day by : Barbara Ardinger
Download or read book Pagan Every Day written by Barbara Ardinger and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humorous and witty entries for every day of the year provoke new ideas and new ways of exploring paganism as a spiritual practice, revealing how contemporary spiritual experiences show up in the most unexpected places. Original.
Book Synopsis Goddesses in World Culture by : Patricia Monaghan
Download or read book Goddesses in World Culture written by Patricia Monaghan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 973 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of accessible essays relates the stories of individual goddesses from around the world, exploring their roles in the cultures from which they came, their histories and status today, and the controversies surrounding them. Goddesses in World Culture brings readers the fascinating stories of close to 100 of the world's goddesses, ranging from the immediately recognizable to the obscure. These figures, many of whom derive from ancient cultures and civilizations, serve as points of departure for examining questions that go well beyond the role of women in religion and spirituality to include social organization, environmental awareness, historical developments, and psychological archetypes. Each volume of this groundbreaking set is composed of 20–25 previously unpublished articles written by expert contributors from diverse disciplines. Volume one covers Asia and Africa, volume two covers the Eastern Mediterranean and Europe, and volume three covers Australia and the Americas. Goddesses from cultures often overlooked in texts on religion, such as those of the Australian Aborigines, Korea, Nepal, and the Caribbean, are included here. In addition, the work offers new translations of ancient texts, introduces little-known folklore, and suggests new approaches to contemporary religious practices.
Book Synopsis The Living Goddesses by : Marija Gimbutas
Download or read book The Living Goddesses written by Marija Gimbutas and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-01-12 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents evidence to support the author's woman-centered interpretation of prehistoric civilizations, considering the prehistoric goddesses, gods and religion, and discussing the living goddesses--deities which have continued to be venerated through the modern era.
Book Synopsis The Virgin Mary in the Perceptions of Women by : Joelle Mellon
Download or read book The Virgin Mary in the Perceptions of Women written by Joelle Mellon and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once, the Virgin Mary was a pivotal element of Christianity, a holy figure at the heart of most Christians’ spiritual lives. She was invoked at all major life passages—baptisms, weddings, childbirths, and funerals—and images of the Virgin Mary could be found virtually anywhere, from pub signs to sacred texts. Medieval women especially looked to Mary to answer their prayers, be their role model, and serve as their advocate in heaven. They prayed to her several times a day and sometimes devoted their entire lives to her service. This book investigates perceptions of the Virgin Mary through several centuries of literature. Focusing especially on the depictions of the Virgin Mary in medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, the author rediscovers a time when the Divine Female was very much in evidence, and good Christian women were taught to pray to a Holy Mother. Topics include the cyclical popularity of Virgin Mary; devotional objects such as Books of Hours, rosaries, and Marian gardens; the mystical qualities attributed to the Virgin Mary through centuries of reported divine visions; the historical relationships between the Virgin Mary and other religious figures, including the Devil; and Mary Magdalene as an alternative to the Virgin Mary as a feminine model.
Download or read book God Beyond Gender written by Gail Ramshaw and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debate about God-language has two opposing extremes. One side maintains that biblical language and masculine pronouns must be retained. The other argues that female imagery for God is preferable. Now Gail Ramshaw presents a third position, urging the inclusion of many images for God, the correction of others, and the total avoidance of any pronouns.
Book Synopsis The Hidden Goddess by : Laurie Martin-Gardner
Download or read book The Hidden Goddess written by Laurie Martin-Gardner and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-31 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hidden Goddess delves into the Bible to uncover the goddesses that have been buried within it. As well as discussing familiar figures such as Eve and Mary, the book also features Asherah, Sophia, Lilith, and others, exploring their histories, their roles in early Judaic Christian belief and their subsequent suppression. '...a readable and accessible antidote to the stereotype that the divine feminine is absent in the biblical traditions. A great resource for women and men seeking the Goddess in unlikely places. Professor Mary Ann Beavis, Ph.D., St. Thomas More College
Book Synopsis Equally in God's Image by : Julia Bolton Holloway
Download or read book Equally in God's Image written by Julia Bolton Holloway and published by Julia Bolton Holloway. This book was released on 1990 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Equally in God's Image: Women in the Middle Ages is a volume of essays presenting the argument that with the coming of the universities women were excluded, in an apartheid of gender, from education and power. It discusses the resulting paradigm shift from Romanesque to Gothic, describing the images which women had of themselves and which the dominant male society had of them. We meet, in the pages of this book, medieval women in their roles as writers, pilgrims, wives, anchoresses and nuns, at court, on pilgrimage, in households and convents. The volume, as a «Distant Mirror» for ourselves today, seeks to present ways in which women then fulfilled the roles society expected of them and the ways in which they also subverted - through entering into textuality - the expectations of the dominating culture in order to quest identity and equality.
Book Synopsis Kuji: A Spiritual Path by : James Clum
Download or read book Kuji: A Spiritual Path written by James Clum and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-02-23 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the power of the mysterious Kuji syllables in this in depth guide covering the history, practice and meaning of this fascinating system of self-protection and mystical affirmations. This book explores how the Kuji-In have changed and adapted throughout their history as they have been adopted across Asia. Find out the hidden meanings of the Kuji-In mudra and their mantra. Discover how to adapt the profound symbolism to your own personal spiritual practice.
