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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Main Author: Vuola, Elina (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Created: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
Subjects:
Mary, > Blessed Virgin, Saint > Devotion to > Costa Rica.
Mary, > Blessed Virgin, Saint > Devotion to > Finland.
Women > Religious life.
Feminist theology.
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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?

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