The Virgin Mary across cultures : devotion among Costa Rican Catholic and Finnish Orthodox women

The Virgin Mary across cultures devotion among Costa Rican Catholic and Finnish Orthodox women

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Vuola, Elina, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge 2019.
2019.
Materias:
Mary, > Blessed Virgin, Saint > Devotion to > Costa Rica.
Mary, > Blessed Virgin, Saint > Devotion to > Finland.
Women > Religious life.
Feminist theology.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009803321406719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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?.

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