Mother worship : theme and variations
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Mother worship : theme and variations
(Studies in religion)
University of North Carolina Press, c1982
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographies and index
Contents of Works
- Introduction / James M. Freeman
- The Virgin of Guadalupe and the female self-image / Ena Campbell
- The Tonantsi cult of the eastern Nahua / Alan R. Sandstrom
- In quest of the Black Virgin / Leonard W. Moss and Stephen C. Cappannari
- The cult of Brigid / Donal Ó Cathasaigh
- An Italian religious feast / Tullio Tentori
- The worship Mother Earth in Russian culture / Joanna Hubbs
- Postindustrial Marian pilgrimage / Victor Turner and Edith Turner
- The goddess Kannagi / Jacob Pandian
- The village mother in Bengal / Ralph W. Nicholas
- The goddess Chandi as an agent of change / James J. Preston
- Pox and the terror of childlessness / Pauline Kolenda
- The milk overflowing ceremony in Sri Lanka / A.J. Weeramunda
- Rangda the witch / Philip Frick McKean
- The great goddess today in Burma and Thailand / John P. Ferguson
- Mother Earth / Daniel F. McCall
- New perspectives on mother worship / James J. Preston
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The authors identify the general symbol of the ""Mother Goddess"" as a common sanctified image, and they demonstrate some of the cultural variations in form or function of the symbol in specific sociocultural settings. Although the subject is approached from a wide variety of perspectives, the authors concur that female deities are not mere projections of sociocultural conditions on an ideological screen; divine mother images represent something of the nurturant and sometimes destructive dimension of the cosmic order.
Originally published in 1983.
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