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description: Hungarian peasant women, who coped with a multitude of oppressors, found comfort and a measure of control within the structures of an ancient folk religion. With Hungary situated at the crossroads of various interceding cultures, that folk religion came to accommodate various elements of faith. However, it maintained the female presence within such divinities as the "Happy Woman" (who could be triune) and the "Beautiful Woman" (who was destructive), who could be combined into differing aspects of the same entity. Buday carefully traces the increasing complexity of the female presence in Hungarian folk religion over time, how elements of Christianity came to be incorporated, and how it has come to be practiced today. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
language: English
title: The Earth Has Given Birth To The Sky: Female Spirituality in the Hungarian Folk Religion
titlecomplete: The Earth Has Given Birth To The Sky: Female Spirituality in the Hungarian Folk Religion (European Folklore Institute)
publisher: Akademiai Kiado