Absent Mother God of the West Cb

Informationen zum Autor Dr. Neela Bhattacharya Saxena is professor of English and women's studies at Nassau Community College.You can visit her website at http://neelabhattacharyasaxena.com/. Klappentext This book investigates the absence of the Divine Feminine in Christianity and Judaism and its psycho-spiritual consequences. It chronicles the author's journey into obscure and suppressed figures like the Black Madonna of Europe and Shekhinah of mystical Judaism and reveals an emergent understanding of a Mother God for the twenty-first century. Zusammenfassung This book investigates the absence of the Divine Feminine in Christianity and Judaism and its psycho-spiritual consequences. It chronicles the author’s journey into obscure and suppressed figures like the Black Madonna of Europe and Shekhinah of mystical Judaism and reveals an emergent understanding of a Mother God for the twenty-first century. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Carving Kali: A Hindu/Buddhist Perspective2. Triple Goddesses of Greece: Traveling Through Ancient Lands 3. Matricide: Slow Destruction of the Mother God4. Theotokos: Ascendant Christianity's Mother of God5. Yogini Magdalene: Gnostic Eve to the Black Madonna 6. Shakti Shekhinah: Immanence Returns to the West

Product details

• Authors: Saxena, Neela Bhattacharya Saxena, Saxena Neela Bhattacharya
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2016
• EAN: 9781498508056
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-0805-6
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, comparative religion, RELIGION / Comparative Religion, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Hinduism / General, RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies, Christianity, Hinduism, Gender studies, gender groups