Absent Mother God of the West (eBook)

A Kali Lover's Journey into Christianity and Judaism

Neela Bhattacharya Saxena (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
208 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-0806-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This book investigates the absence of the Divine Feminine in Christianity and Judaism and its psycho-spiritual consequences. It chronicles the author’s journey into obscure and suppressed figures like the Black Madonna of Europe and Shekhinah of mystical Judaism and reveals an emergent understanding of a Mother God for the twenty-first century.

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This book about the missing Divine Feminine in Christianity and Judaism chronicles a personal as well as an academic quest of an Indian woman who grew up with Kali and myriad other goddesses. It is born out of a womens studies course created and taught by the author called The Goddess in World Religions. The book examines how the Divine Feminine was erased from the western consciousness and how it led to an exclusive spiritually patriarchal monotheism with serious consequences for both women's and men's psychological and spiritual identity. While colonial, proselytizing and patriarchal ways have denied the divinity inherent in the female of the species, a recent upsurge of body-centric practices like Yoga and innumerable books about old and new goddesses reveal a deep seated mother hunger in the western consciousness. Written from a practicing Hindu/Buddhist perspective, this book looks at the curious phenomenon called the Black Madonna that appears in Europe and also examines mystical figures like Shekhinah in Jewish mysticism. People interested in symbols of the goddess, feminist theologians, and scholars interested in the absence of goddesses in monotheisms may find this book's perspective and insights provocative.

Autor

Dr. Neela Bhattacharya Saxena is professor of English and women's studies at Nassau Community College.You can visit her website at http://neelabhattacharyasaxena.com/.

Inhalt

1. Carving Kali: A Hindu/Buddhist Perspective2. Triple Goddesses of Greece: Traveling Through Ancient Lands 3. Matricide: Slow Destruction of the Mother God4. Theotokos: Ascendant Christianity’s Mother of God5. Yogini Magdalene: Gnostic Eve to the Black Madonna 6. Shakti Shekhinah: Immanence Returns to the West

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.12.2015
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Black Madonna • Comparative Religion • decolonial autoethnography • Goddesses • Hinduism • Kabbalah • Kali • mystical Christianity • Prajnaparamita • Shekhinah • Spirituality • spiritual journey • Vajrayana Buddhism
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-0806-5 / 1498508065
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-0806-3 / 9781498508063