The Concept Of The Goddess
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The Concept Of The Goddess
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Author : Sandra Billington
language : id
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-09-11
The Concept Of The Goddess written by Sandra Billington and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-09-11 with Social Science categories.
The Concept of the Goddess explores the function and nature of goddesses and their cults in many cultures, including: * Celtic * Roman * Norse * Caucasian * Japanese traditions. The contributors explore the reasons for the existence of so many goddesses in the mythology of patriarchal societies and show that goddesses have also assumed more masculine roles, with war, hunting and sovereignty being equally important aspects of their cults.
The Concept Of The Goddess
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Author : Sandra Billington
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-09-11
The Concept Of The Goddess written by Sandra Billington and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-09-11 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
This volume is an up-to-date, highly readable study of the female aspects of religion both in past and present mythologies. It explores the function and nature of goddesses and their cults in many cultures.
At The Feet Of The Goddess
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Author : Lynn Foulston
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2002
At The Feet Of The Goddess written by Lynn Foulston and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Philosophy categories.
Directed at scholars and advanced students of anthropology, Indian culture, and religion, this detailed study is based on the author's research in Khurdapur, a village in Orissa, and Cholavandan, a town in Tamilnadu. An overview of the concept of the goddess in Hinduism is provided at the outset then Foulston (U. of Wales College, Newport, UK) examines the patterns of worship and sacred buildings in her subject sites. Subsequent chapters consider the variety of goddesses present in both communities, their relation to pan-Indian goddesses, the links they demonstrate between power and impurity, their protective nature, and local ritual practice. Several color plates are included. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Through The Goddess
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Author : Patricia Reis
language : en
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Release Date : 1991
Through The Goddess written by Patricia Reis and has been published by Burns & Oates this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Archetype (Psychology) categories.
"Drawing on her wide background in depth psychology, art, and archeology, Patricia Reis gives a unique feminist reading to the meaning of the Goddess. Through personal experience and reflection, through women's creative productions, and above all through examples from the lives of women she has guided in her practice of therapeia, Through the Goddess shows the indwelling Goddess to be a much-needed resource for physical, spiritual, and psychological healing." "Utilizing pre-patriarchal Goddess images for inspiration and information, Reis shows how the earliest Goddess images provide important bedrock symbols of female wholeness that are lacking in the later Greek Goddesses who are often patriarchally influenced and reflect instead the suffering and fragmented aspects of women, which correspond to contemporary women's struggles for self-acceptance." "Reis further develops a newly emerging archetype: that of the female body. Through the work of women poets and artists, Reis shows how women today can heal personally and collectively from abuse, incest, eating disorders, and from the sometimes devastating effects of breast cancer by initiation into and through the Goddess."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Hindu Goddesses
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Author : Lynn Foulston
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2009
Hindu Goddesses written by Lynn Foulston and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Religion categories.
This book explores the diversity of Hindu goddesses and the variety of ways in which they are worshiped. Although they undoubtedly have ancient origins, Hindu goddesses and their worship is still very much a part of the fabric of religious engagement in India today. The book offers an introduction to a complex and often baffling field of study. Part I, "Beliefs" provides a series of encounters with a range of Hindu goddesses starting with the idea of 'Goddess' as a philosophical concept. Topics include textual evidence for belief structures, goddess mythology, and the importance of 'the Goddess' in Tantrism. Part II, "Practices" leads the reader through the tangled web of goddess worship, pausing along the way to examine the contrast between temple and local worship, the splendour of festivals and the importance of pilgrimage to those places in India where goddesses are considered to reside. A Conclusion provides details of contemporary developments in goddess worship, such as the appearance of new deities who supply the needs of worshipers in the twenty-first century. No prior knowledge is necessary as the book is aimed at undergraduate students and anyone interested in the religions and philosophy of India.
Rebirth Of The Goddess
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Author : Carol P. Christ
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-11-12
Rebirth Of The Goddess written by Carol P. Christ and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-12 with Religion categories.
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Goddess As Nature
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Author : Paul Reid-Bowen
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-15
Goddess As Nature written by Paul Reid-Bowen and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-15 with Religion categories.
Goddess as Nature makes a significant contribution to elucidating the meaning of a female and feminist deity at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Bridging the gap between the emergent religious discourse of thealogy - discourse about the Goddess - and a range of analytical concerns in the philosophy of religion, the author argues that thealogy is not as incoherent as many of its critics claim. By developing a close reading of the reality-claims embedded within a range of thealogical texts, one can discern an ecological and pantheistic concept of deity and reality that is metaphysically novel and in need of constructive philosophical, thealogical and scholarly engagement. Philosophical thealogy is, in an age concerned with re-conceiving nature in terms of agency, chaos, complexity, ecological networks and organicism, both an active possibility and a remarkably valuable academic, feminist and religious endeavour.
Introducing Thealogy
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Author : Melissa Raphael
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 1998-12-31
Introducing Thealogy written by Melissa Raphael and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-12-31 with Religion categories.
There are a number of participant accounts of the revival of Goddess religion among feminists in Europe, America and Australasia. But students and others interested in issues in the relation of religion, theo/alogy and gender need an accessible and concise critical overview of this contemporary religious phenomenon and its discourses. Introducing Thealogy, which offers a contextual analysis of the thealogy, ontology, historiography and ethics of various types of Goddess feminism, is designed to meet that need.
Women And Goddess Traditions
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Author : Karen L. King
language : en
Publisher: Continuum
Release Date : 1997
Women And Goddess Traditions written by Karen L. King and has been published by Continuum this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Goddess religion categories.
Goddess religion was widespread in the world of the Bible and is reflected in many biblical texts. This provocative and reliable book, based on thorough analyses of primary sources, examines the role of the feminine deity in religious piety in three areas: Asia, the ancient Mediterranean, and in three contexts today.
The Goddess
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Author : David Leeming
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2016-03-15
The Goddess written by David Leeming and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-15 with Religion categories.
For as long as we have sought god, we have found the goddess. Ruling over the imaginations of humankind’s earliest agricultural civilizations, she played a critical spiritual role as a keeper of nature’s fertile powers and an assurance of the next sustaining harvest. In The Goddess, David Leeming and Christopher Fee take us all the way back into prehistory, tracing the goddess across vast spans of time to tell the epic story of the transformation of belief and what it says about who we are. Leeming and Fee use the goddess to gaze into the lives and souls of the people who worshipped her. They chart the development of traditional Western gender roles through an understanding of the transformation of concepts of the Goddess from her earliest roots in India and Iran to her more familiar faces in Ireland and Iceland. They examine the subordination of the goddess to the god as human civilizations became mobile and began to look upon masculine deities for assurances of survival in movement and battle. And they show how, despite this history, the goddess has remained alive in our spiritual imaginations, in figures such as the Christian Virgin Mother and, in contemporary times, the new-age resurrection of figures such as Gaia. The Goddess explores this central aspect of ancient spiritual thought as a window into human history and the deepest roots of our beliefs.