| Description |
xxiv, 360 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Studies in religion |
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Studies in religion (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
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| 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 O 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies |
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Includes index |
| Subject |
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Devotion to.
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Mother goddesses.
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Women and religion.
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| Author |
Preston, James, 1941-
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| LC no. |
81003336 |
| ISBN |
0807814717 |
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