Mother worship
Subtitle: theme and variations
By: James J. Preston, editor.
Contributors: Preston, James, 1941-
Series: Studies in religion.; Studies in religion (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
Subjects: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Devotion to; Mother goddesses; Women and religion
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / James M. Freeman; title: The Virgin of Guadalupe and the female self-image / Ena Campbell; title: The Tonantsi cult of the eastern Nahua / Alan R. Sandstrom; title: In quest of the Black Virgin / Leonard W. Moss and Stephen C. Cappannari; title: The cult of Brigid / Donal Ó Cathasaigh; title: An Italian religious feast / Tullio Tentori; title: The worship Mother Earth in Russian culture / Joanna Hubbs; title: Postindustrial Marian pilgrimage / Victor Turner and Edith Turner; title: The goddess Kannagi / Jacob Pandian; title: The village mother in Bengal / Ralph W. Nicholas; title: The goddess Chandi as an agent of change / James J. Preston; title: Pox and the terror of childlessness / Pauline Kolenda; title: The milk overflowing ceremony in Sri Lanka / A.J. Weeramunda; title: Rangda the witch / Philip Frick McKean; title: The great goddess today in Burma and Thailand / John P. Ferguson; title: Mother Earth / Daniel F. McCall; title: New perspectives on mother worship / James J. Preston.