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Title Immaculate & powerful : the female in sacred image and social reality / edited by Clarissa W. Atkinson, Constance H. Buchanan, and Margaret R. Miles
Published Boston : Beacon Press, [1985]
©1985

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Description viii, 330 pages ; 24 cm
Series The Harvard women's studies in religion series
Harvard women's studies in religion series.
Contents In the days of Jael : reclaiming the history of women in ancient Israel / Jo Ann Hackett -- Female sexuality in the Hindu world / Frédérique Apffel Marglin -- Paul's views on the nature of women and female homoeroticism / Bernadette J. Brooten -- Black women's literature and the task of feminist theology / Delores S. Williams -- Primordial purity and everyday life : exalted female symbols and the women of Tibet / Anne C. Klein -- "Your servant, my mother" : the figure of Saint Monica in the ideology of Christian motherhood / Clarissa W. Atkinson -- Immaculate and powerful : the Marian revival in the nineteenth century / Barbara Corrado Pope -- "In Christian firmness and Christian meekness" : feminism and pacifism in antebellum America / Dorothy C. Bass -- Images of women and Jews in nineteenth- and twentieth-century German theology / Sheila Briggs -- Simone Weil's religious imagery : how looking becomes eating / Judith Van Herik -- Sacrifice as remedy for having been born of woman / Nancy Jay
Bibliography Includes bibliographies and index
Subject Feminism -- Religious aspects.
Women -- Religious aspects.
Women and religion.
Women in religion.
Author Atkinson, Clarissa W.
Buchanan, Constance H.
Miles, Margaret R. (Margaret Ruth), 1937-
LC no. 85070448
ISBN 0807010049
Other Titles Immaculate and powerful
Immaculate and powerful