Through the earth darkly : female spirituality in comparative perspective /: female spirituality in comparative perspective. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: By Jordan Paper.
• Authors: Paper, Jordan D
• Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Prologue: A Personal Journey; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; Methodology; The Structure of This Book; Limitations of This Study; A Note on Terminology; Chronology; Part I: Framing Europe; 2. Pre-Christian Saami Religion; BACKGROUND; FEMALE SPIRITS; Cosmic Spirits; Creation Spirits; Spirits of the Game and the Herd; Spirit for the Dead; Guardian Spirits; FEMALE RITUALS AND RITUAL ROLES; Female Participation in ""Male"" Rituals; Childbirth Rituals; Female Religious Functionaries; FEMALE SELF-UNDERSTANDING 3. Israelite Religion and Its PrecursorsBACKGROUND; FEMALE SPIRITS; Ancient Mesopotamia; Syro-Palestine; FEMALE RITUALS AND RITUAL ROLES; Ancient Mesopotamia; Ancient Syro-Palestine and the Bible; FEMALE SELF-UNDERSTANDING; Part II: East Asia; 4. Traditional Chinese Religion; INTRODUCTION; FEMALE SPIRITS; The Western Invention of a Chinese High God; Ancestors; Earth; Creator and Other Fertility Deities; Euhemeristic Goddesses; Discussion; FEMALE RITUALS AND RITUAL ROLES; Female Rituals; Mixed Gender Rituals; Ritual Roles; FEMALE SELF-UNDERSTANDING; 5. Contemporary Chinese Religion INTRODUCTIONFEMALE SPIRITS; The Family Dead; Household Deities; Earth and Other Cosmic Deities; Star and Moon Deities; Creator and Other Fertility Deities; Euhemeristic Goddesses; Summary; FEMALE RITUALS AND RITUAL ROLES; Female Rituals; Mixed Gender Rituals; Ritual Roles; FEMALE SELF-UNDERSTANDING; 6. Effects of Chinese Religion on Neighboring Traditions; Aspects of Japanese Religion; Aspects of Korean Religion; Part III: Native North America; 7. Introduction: Four Vignettes; Bridging the Continents: A Female Image; Sedna: From Earth Mother to Sea Mother The Amazonian Earth Mother and Her RitualsInca Gender Parallelism; 8. Anishnabe Religion; Introduction; Pre-Contact Female Spirituality; Prologue; Some Caves in Northeastern Iowa; A Rockface in Southeastern Ontario; Conclusions; Contemporary Anishnabe Female Spirituality; Female Spirits; Female Rituals; Female Roles in Mixed Gender Rituals; Female Self-Understanding; Traditions Corollary to Those of the Anishnabeg: Lenape and Nitsitapi; The Lenape'wak; The Nitsitapi Tribes; 9. Hopi Religion; BACKGROUND; FEMALE SPIRITS; Earth Mother and Fertility Deities; Trickster/Culture-Hero A Few Other Female DeitiesFEMALE RITUALS AND RITUAL ROLES; Life-cycle Rituals; Female Ritual Societies; Female Roles in Male Society Rituals; FEMALE SELF-UNDERSTANDING; 10. Fusion: Dine Menarche Rituals; BACKGROUND; CHANGING WOMAN/WHITE PAINTED WOMAN- WHITE SHELL WOMAN; KINAALDA / ISANAKLESH G0TAL; Isanaklesh Gotal; Kinaalda; INTERPRETATION; Part IV: Sub-saharan Africa; 11. Glimpses of West Central African Religions; Yoruba Religion; Female Spirits; Female Rituals and Ritual Roles; Female Self-Understanding; Akan Religion; Female Spirits; Female Rituals and Ritual Roles
• Publisher Details: London, UK : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 200/.82; Women and religion; RELIGION / Comparative Religion; RELIGION / Essays; RELIGION / Reference; Women and religion; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474281683; 1474281680
• Related ISBNs: 9781474281676; 1474281672
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 2, 2016).
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