Fierce Feminine Divinities of Eurasia and Latin America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fierce Feminine Divinities of Eurasia and Latin America write by Małgorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba. This book was released on 2015-09-09. Fierce Feminine Divinities of Eurasia and Latin America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this provocative book, Małgorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba examines untamed feminine divinities from around the world. Although distant geographically, these divine figures are surprisingly similar-representing concepts of liminality, outsiderhood, and structural inferiority, embodied in the divine feminine. These strong, independent, unrestrained figures are connected to the periphery and to magical powers, including power over sexuality, transformation, and death. Oleszkiewicz-Peralba offers a study of the origin and worship of four feminine deities across cultures and continents: the Slavic Baba Yaga, the Hindu Kālī, the Brazilian Pombagira, and the Mexican Santa Muerte. Although these divinities have often been marginalized through dismissal, demonization, and dulcification, they continue to be extremely attractive, as they empower their devotees confronting them with the ultimate reality of transience and death. Oleszkiewicz-Peralba examines how these sacred icons have been adapted and transformed across time and place.
Mythology and Symbolism of Eurasia and Indigenous Americas
Mythology and Symbolism of Eurasia and Indigenous Americas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mythology and Symbolism of Eurasia and Indigenous Americas write by Małgorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba. This book was released on 2022-12-09. Mythology and Symbolism of Eurasia and Indigenous Americas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A system of myths, symbols, and rituals, dating back to the Paleolithic and Neolithic, survives in present-day imagery. In exploring this system, special attention is drawn to the linkage between ancient and contemporary civilizations of Eurasia and Mesoamerica, as seen in their cosmology, and expressed in common mythological and iconographic themes. The author examines contemporary Middle American and eastern European textiles, especially women’s garments, that contain an elaborated sacred code of symbols, and include remnants of the four horizontal directions, and the three vertical worlds that portray the structure of the universe. The cosmology contained in patterns around the world denotes striking parallels that attest to internal connections between different cultures, beyond time and place.
Violence, Otherness and Identity in Isaiah 63:1-6
Violence, Otherness and Identity in Isaiah 63:1-6 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Violence, Otherness and Identity in Isaiah 63:1-6 write by Dominic S. Irudayaraj. This book was released on 2017-04-20. Violence, Otherness and Identity in Isaiah 63:1-6 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Violence disturbs. And violent depictions, when encountered in the biblical texts, are all the more disconcerting. Isaiah 63:1-6 is an illustrative instance. The prophetic text presents the "Arriving One" in gory details ('trampling down people'; 'pouring out their lifeblood' v.6). Further, the introductory note that the Arriving One is “coming from Edom” (cf. v.1) may suggest Israel's unrelenting animosity towards Edom. These two themes: the "gory depiction" and "coming from Edom" are addressed in this book. Irudayaraj uses a social identity reading to show how Edom is consistently pictured as Israel's proximate and yet 'other'-ed entity. Approaching Edom as such thus helps situate the animosity within a larger prophetic vision of identity construction in the postexilic Third Isaian context. By adopting an iconographic reading of Isaiah 63:1-6, Irudayaraj shows how the prophetic portrayal of the 'Arriving One' in descriptions where it is clear that the 'Arriving One' is a marginalised identity correlates with the experiences of the "stooped" exiles (cf 51:14). He also demonstrates that the text leaves behind emphatic affirmations ('mighty' and 'splendidly robed' cf. v.1; “alone” cf. v.3), by which the relegated voice of the divine reasserts itself. It is in this divine reassertion that the hope of the Isaian community's reclamation of its own identity rests.
A Post-Neoliberal Era in Latin America?
A Post-Neoliberal Era in Latin America? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Post-Neoliberal Era in Latin America? write by Nehring, Daniel. This book was released on 2019-02-27. A Post-Neoliberal Era in Latin America? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Ongoing conflicts between neoliberal and post-neoliberal politics have resulted in growing social instability in Latin America. This book explores the cultural dynamics of neoliberalism and anti-neoliberal resistance in Latin America as a complex set of interrelated cultural forms, examining the ways in which neoliberalism has transformed public discourses of self and social relationships, popular cultures and modes of everyday experience. Contributors from an international range of different disciplinary perspectives look at how Latin Americans construct subjectivities, build communities and make meaning in their everyday lives in order to analyse the discourses and cultural practices through which a societal consensus for the pursuit of neoliberal politics may be established, defended and contested.
Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions [2 volumes]
Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions [2 volumes] - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions [2 volumes] write by Susan de-Gaia. This book was released on 2018-11-16. Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions [2 volumes] available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This reference offers reliable knowledge about women's diverse faith practices throughout history and prehistory, and across cultures. Across the span of human history, women have participated in world-building and life-sustaining cultural creativity, making enormous contributions to religion and spirituality. In the contemporary period, women have achieved greater equality, with more educational opportunities, female role models in public life, and opportunities for religious expression than ever before. Contemporaneously with this increased visibility, women are actively and energetically engaging with religion for themselves and for their communities. Drawing on the expertise of a range of scholars, this reference chronicles the religious experiences of women across time and cultures. The book includes sections on major religions as well as on spirituality, African religions, prehistoric religions, and other broad topics. Each section begins with an introduction, followed by reference entries on specialized subjects along with excerpts from primary source documents. The entries provide numerous suggestions for further reading, and the book closes with a detailed bibliography.
