Mother worship : : theme and variations / [electronic resource] / James J. Preston, editor.. — Chapel Hill : : University of North Carolina Press,, c1982.. — xxiv, 360 p. : : ill. ; 24 cm. — (Studies in religion.). - Studies in religion (Chapel Hill, N.C.) .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction / James M. Freeman -- The Virgin of Guadalupe and the female self-image / Ena Campbell -- The Tonantsi cult of the eastern Nahua / Alan R. Sandstrom -- In quest of the Black Virgin / Leonard W. Moss and Stephen C. Cappannari -- The cult of Brigid / Donal Ó Cathasaigh -- An Italian religious feast / Tullio Tentori -- The worship Mother Earth in Russian culture / Joanna Hubbs -- Postindustrial Marian pilgrimage / Victor Turner and Edith Turner -- The goddess Kannagi / Jacob Pandian -- The village mother in Bengal / Ralph W. Nicholas -- The goddess Chandi as an agent of change / James J. Preston -- Pox and the terror of childlessness / Pauline Kolenda -- The milk overflowing ceremony in Sri Lanka / A.J. Weeramunda -- Rangda the witch / Philip Frick McKean -- The great goddess today in Burma and Thailand / John P. Ferguson -- Mother Earth / Daniel F. McCall -- New perspectives on mother worship / James J. Preston.
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Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint --Devotion to. Marie, Sainte Vierge --Culte.
Mother goddesses. Women and religion. Déesses mères. Femmes et religion.