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Goddesses and the divine feminine : a Western religious history / / Rosemary Radford Ruether



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Autore: Ruether Rosemary Radford Visualizza persona
Titolo: Goddesses and the divine feminine : a Western religious history / / Rosemary Radford Ruether Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2005
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (392 pages)
Disciplina: 202/.114
Soggetto topico: Goddesses
Women and religion
Goddess religion
Soggetto non controllato: ancient matriarchy
aztec religions
babylonia
christianity
comparative religions
deity
divine feminine
egypt
female mysticism
feminine divinity
femininity
feminist ecological spirituality
gender studies
goddess movements
goddesses
judaism
mariology
matriarchal structures
medieval catholicism
medieval religious literature
myths and rituals
religion
sacred female imagery
sacred feminine
spiritual
sumerian
western civilization
western culture
western religions
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-358) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Gender and the problem of prehistory -- Goddesses and world renewal in the ancient mediterranean -- The Hebrew God and gender -- Savior goddesses in the mystery religions and gnosticism -- The spiritual feminine in New Testament and patristic Christianity -- Feminine symbols in medieval religious literature -- Tonantzin-Guadalupe : the meeting of Aztec and Christian female symbols in Mexico -- Mary and wisdom in protestant mystical millennialism -- Contested gender status and imagining ancient matriarchy -- The return of the goddess.
Sommario/riassunto: This landmark work presents the most illuminating portrait we have to date of goddesses and sacred female imagery in Western culture-from prehistory to contemporary goddess movements. Beautifully written, lucidly conceived, and far-ranging in its implications, this work will help readers gain a better appreciation of the complexity of the social forces- mostly androcentric-that have shaped the symbolism of the sacred feminine. At the same time, it charts a new direction for finding a truly egalitarian vision of God and human relations through a feminist-ecological spirituality. Rosemary Radford Ruether begins her exploration of the divine feminine with an analysis of prehistoric archaeology that challenges the popular idea that, until their overthrow by male-dominated monotheism, many ancient societies were matriarchal in structure, governed by a feminine divinity and existing in harmony with nature. For Ruether, the historical evidence suggests the reality about these societies is much more complex. She goes on to consider key myths and rituals from Sumerian, Babylonian, Egyptian, and Anatolian cultures; to examine the relationships among gender, deity, and nature in the Hebrew religion; and to discuss the development of Mariology and female mysticism in medieval Catholicism, and the continuation of Wisdom mysticism in Protestanism. She also gives a provocative analysis of the meeting of Aztec and Christian female symbols in Mexico and of today's neo-pagan movements in the United States.
Titolo autorizzato: Goddesses and the divine feminine  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-94041-5
9786612358807
1-282-35880-4
1-59875-530-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910783319103321
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