TY  - BOOK
AU  - Preston,James
TI  - Mother worship: theme and variations 
T2  - Studies in religion
SN  - 0807814717
AV  - BL325.M6 M67
U1  - 306/.6 19
PY  - 1982///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Mary,
KW  - Marie,
KW  - Mother goddesses
KW  - Women and religion
KW  - Déesses mères
KW  - Femmes et religion
N1  - 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
UR  - http://www.archive.org/details/motherworshipthe00pres
ER  -