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

"This book looks at women's relationship to the Virgin Mary in two different cultural and religious contexts and compares how these relationships have been analysed and explained on a theological and a sociological level. The figure of the Virgin Mary is a divisive one in our modern cultur...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vuola, Elina (Author)
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
Subjects:
Mary, > Blessed Virgin, Saint > Devotion to > Costa Rica.
Mary, > Blessed Virgin, Saint > Devotion to > Finland.
Marie, > Sainte Vierge > Culte > Finlande.
Mary, > Blessed Virgin, Saint
Women > Religious life.
Feminist theology.
Femmes > Vie religieuse.
Théologie féministe.
RELIGION > Christianity > Mariology.
RELIGION > Sexuality & Gender Studies.
RELIGION > Christianity > Orthodox Churches.
Devotion
Feminist theology
Women > Religious life
Costa Rica
Finland
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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?