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Women and goddess traditions : in antiquity and today
- Title
- Women and goddess traditions : in antiquity and today / edited by Karen L. King ; with an introduction by Karen Jo Torjesen.
- Publication
- Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, c1997.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- King, Karen L.
- Description
- xiv, 450 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Studies in antiquity and Christianity
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- The goddess and women's power : a Hindu case study / Kathleen M. Erndl -- Glorifying the great goddess or great woman? : Hindu women's experience in ritual recitation of Devi-Mahatmya / Cynthia Ann Humes -- Radha's audacity in Kirtan performances and women's status in Greater Bengal / Donna M. Wulff -- Hindu women and ritual empowerment / Lina Gupta -- Worship of women in Tantric Buddhism : male is to female as devotee is to goddess / Miranda Shaw -- Stories of enlightened women in Ch'an and the Chinese Buddhist female Bodhisattva/goddess tradition / Miriam Levering -- The queen mother and the cult in the ancient Near East / Susan Ackerman -- Queens and goddesses in ancient Egypt / Susan Tower Hollis -- Transforming goddess iconography in Hebrew narrative / Eleanor Ferris Beach -- Wisdom/Sophia, Hellenistic queens, and women's lives / Hal Taussig -- The rise and fall of female reproductive control as seen through images of women / Savina J. Teubal -- The strange woman of Proverbs : a study in the feminization and divinization of evil in Biblical thought / Claudia V. Camp -- Carrying water in a sieve : class and the body in Roman women's religion / Amy Richlin -- Goddesses and the lives of women / Judith Ochshorn -- Some Buddhist perspectives on the goddess / Rita M. Gross -- Missing goddesses, missing women : reflections of a middle-aged amazon / Emily Erwin Culpepper.
- Call Number
- JFE 97-853
- ISBN
- 0800629191 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 97020399
- OCLC
- 36892861
- Title
- Women and goddess traditions : in antiquity and today / edited by Karen L. King ; with an introduction by Karen Jo Torjesen.
- Imprint
- Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, c1997.
- Series
- Studies in antiquity and Christianity
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Added Author
- King, Karen L.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 97-853