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Goddesses and the divine feminine: a Western religious history

Rosemary Radford Ruether c2005 © University of California Press
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  • 9780520231467 (hardcover)
  • 9780520940413 (ebook)
  • 9780520250055 (paper)
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  • Religion
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  • Cover
  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page vii)
  • Acknowledgments (page ix)
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • 1. Gender and the Problem of Prehistory (page 13)
  • 2. Goddesses and World Renewal in the Ancient Mediterranean (page 41)
  • 3. The Hebrew God and Gender (page 73)
  • 4. Savior Goddesses in the Mystery Religions and Gnosticism (page 98)
  • 5. The Spiritual Feminine in New Testament and Patristic Christianity (page 127)
  • 6. Feminine Symbols in Medieval Religious Literature (page 159)
  • 7. Tonantzin-Guadalupe: The Meeting of Aztec and Christian Female Symbols in Mexico (page 190)
  • 8. Mary and Wisdom in Protestant Mystical Millennialism (page 220)
  • 9. Contested Gender Status and Imagining Ancient Matriarchy (page 249)
  • 10. The Return of the Goddess (page 274)
  • Conclusion (page 299)
  • Notes (page 309)
  • Index (page 359)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JNES 67.3 (2008): 201-202 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/591754
WF 68.1 (2009): 114-115 http://www.jstor.org/stable/40600521
JAAR 74.4 (2006): 1006-1008 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4139967
BCS 28 (2008): 175-178 http://www.jstor.org/stable/30152949
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