Women and goddess traditions : in antiquity and today /
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Minneapolis :
Fortress Press,
[1997]
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| Series: | Studies in antiquity and Christianity.
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Table of Contents:
- The goddess and women's power : a Hindu case study / Kathleen M. Erndl
- Glorifying the great goddess or great woman? : Hindu women's experience in ritual recitation of Devi-Mahatmya / Cynthia Ann Humes
- Radha's audacity in Kirtan performances and women's status in Greater Bengal / Donna M. Wulff
- Hindu women and ritual empowerment / Lina Gupta
- Worship of women in Tantric Buddhism : male is to female as devotee is to goddess / Miranda Shaw
- Stories of enlightened women in Ch'an and the Chinese Buddhist female Bodhisattva/goddess tradition / Miriam Levering
- The queen mother and the cult in the ancient Near East / Susan Ackerman
- Queens and goddesses in ancient Egypt / Susan Tower Hollis
- Transforming goddess iconography in Hebrew narrative / Eleanor Ferris Beach
- Wisdom/Sophia, Hellenistic queens, and women's lives / Hal Taussig
- The rise and fall of female reproductive control as seen through images of women / Savina J. Teubal
- The strange woman of Proverbs : a study in the feminization and divinization of evil in Biblical thought / Claudia V. Camp
- Carrying water in a sieve : class and the body in Roman women's religion / Amy Richlin
- Goddesses and the lives of women / Judith Ochshorn
- Some Buddhist perspectives on the goddess / Rita M. Gross
- Missing goddesses, missing women : reflections of a middle-aged amazon / Emily Erwin Culpepper.