Goddesses and the divine feminine
Subtitle: a Western religious history
By: Rosemary Radford Ruether.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
ISBN-13: 9780520231467
Subjects: Goddesses; Women and religion; Goddess religion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-358) and index.
Table of contents: title: Gender and the problem of prehistory; title: Goddesses and world renewal in the ancient mediterranean; title: The Hebrew God and gender; title: Savior goddesses in the mystery religions and gnosticism; title: The spiritual feminine in New Testament and patristic Christianity; title: Feminine symbols in medieval religious literature; title: Tonantzin-Guadalupe : the meeting of Aztec and Christian female symbols in Mexico; title: Mary and wisdom in protestant mystical millennialism; title: Contested gender status and imagining ancient matriarchy; title: The return of the goddess.