The Virgin Mary across cultures : : devotion among Costa Rican Catholic and Finnish Orthodox women / / Elina Vuola.
This book examines women's relationship to the Virgin Mary in two different cultural and religious contexts, and compares how these relationships have been analyzed and explained on a theological and a sociological level. The figure of the Virgin Mary is a divisive one in our modern culture. To...
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| Place / Publishing House: | London ;, New York : : Routledge,, 2019. ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (204 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the many dimensions of Mary
- Blessed among women: various teachings on Mary
- The Virgin Mary: a feminist's nightmare?
- Costa Rican Catholic women and la Negrita
- Jumalanäiti, the mother of God, in contemporary Finland
- The first of mothers, the eldest of wives: mary in Finnish-Karelian folklore
- Epilogue: Our Lady of the Bridges?.