Through the Earth Darkly
Female Spirituality in Comparative Perspective
Published on 6. October 2016
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-1-4742-8167-6 (ISBN)
Description
This book makes a compelling case for male-female religious complementarity in many of the world's religions. It offers an extensive survey of female spiritual roles in a variety of cultures and provides evidence that women have exercised authority and sacred power in a variety of traditional religions.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
649 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4742-8167-6 (9781474281676)
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Jordan Paper is Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at York University, Canada.
Content
Foreword by Rita M. Gross
Prologue: A Personal Journey Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
PART I. FRAMING EUROPE
2. Pre-Christian Saami Religion, with Louise Baeckman
3. Israelite Religion and Its Precursors, with Johanna Stuckey
PART II. EAST ASIA
4. Traditional Chinese Religion
5. Contemporary Chinese Religion, with Li Chuang Paper
6. Effects of Chinese Religion on Neighboring Traditions
Aspects of Japanese Religion, with Marilyn Nefsky
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 Rituals Inca Gender Parallelism
8. Anishnabe Religion
Introduction
Pre-Contact Female Spirituality
Contemporary Anishnabe Female Spirituality, with Jacqui Lavalley
Traditions Corollary to Those of the Anishnabeg: Lenape and Nitsitapi
9. Hopi Religion?
10. Fusion: Dine Menarche Rituals
PART IV. SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
11. Glimpses of West Central African Religions
Yoruba Religion
Akan Religion, with E. & P. Aijin-Tettey
12. Candomble: An African Religion in the Americas
ENDINGS
13. Analysis and Conclusions
Commonalities of Non-Western Traditions Comparative Spirituality: West and Non-West Towards a Non-Eurocentric, Non-Androcentric Science of Religion
Epilogue: Through the Earth Darkly
Afterword by Catherine Keller
Notes
Index
Prologue: A Personal Journey Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
PART I. FRAMING EUROPE
2. Pre-Christian Saami Religion, with Louise Baeckman
3. Israelite Religion and Its Precursors, with Johanna Stuckey
PART II. EAST ASIA
4. Traditional Chinese Religion
5. Contemporary Chinese Religion, with Li Chuang Paper
6. Effects of Chinese Religion on Neighboring Traditions
Aspects of Japanese Religion, with Marilyn Nefsky
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 Rituals Inca Gender Parallelism
8. Anishnabe Religion
Introduction
Pre-Contact Female Spirituality
Contemporary Anishnabe Female Spirituality, with Jacqui Lavalley
Traditions Corollary to Those of the Anishnabeg: Lenape and Nitsitapi
9. Hopi Religion?
10. Fusion: Dine Menarche Rituals
PART IV. SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
11. Glimpses of West Central African Religions
Yoruba Religion
Akan Religion, with E. & P. Aijin-Tettey
12. Candomble: An African Religion in the Americas
ENDINGS
13. Analysis and Conclusions
Commonalities of Non-Western Traditions Comparative Spirituality: West and Non-West Towards a Non-Eurocentric, Non-Androcentric Science of Religion
Epilogue: Through the Earth Darkly
Afterword by Catherine Keller
Notes
Index