num_pages: 826
description: This book fills the very real need for an affordable accessible academic textbook featuring Goddesses from a wide range of world religious cultural and mythological traditions. As a textbook its primary audience is professors and students in university and college courses in Goddess Studies Religious Studies and Womens and Gender Studies. It will also be of interest to students and instructors in the many Goddess-themed courses outside the academy. The contributors to the textbook were selected for their scholarly expertise and qualifications in their respective areas of study both established and emerging scholars from Canada the U.S. the U.K. Scandinavia and Australia. The Goddess traditions surveyed in the 22 chapters include the Female Divine in the major world religionsnot only Hinduism and Buddhism but also in the Western Religions of Judaism Christianity and Islam popularly regarded as impervious to the Goddess. The coverage ranges from ancient to contemporary Mago to Mary Magdalene. As such it is a unique and much-needed resource for students and faculty as well as a treasury of Goddess scholarship.
language: None
title: Goddesses in Myth, History and Culture
publisher: None