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University of North Carolina Press
Language
English
Pages
360

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Subjects

Women and religion, Devotion to, Culte, Mother goddesses, Déesses mères, Femmes et religion, Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Marienverehrung, Discours, essais, conférences, Muttergottheit, Déesses-mères, Mary, blessed virgin, saint, cult

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Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographies and index.

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Series
Studies in religion., Studies in religion (Chapel Hill, N.C.)

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
306/.6
Library of Congress
BL325.M6 M67, , BL325.M6 M67 1982

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxiv, 360 p. :
Number of pages
360

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OL4257839M
Internet Archive
motherworshipthe00pres
ISBN 10
0807814717
LCCN
81003336
OCLC/WorldCat
7571832, 362266985
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3633027

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