The Virgin Mary Across Cultures: Devotion Among Costa Rican Catholic and Finnish Orthodox Women

ISBN-13: 9781138092334 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 188 str.

Elina Vuola

Opis

This book examines 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.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Many Dimensions of Mary  1 Blessed among Women: Various Teachings on Mary  2 The Virgin Mary: A Feminist’s Nightmare?  3 Costa Rican Catholic Women and La Negrita  4 Jumalanäiti, the Mother of God, in Contemporary Finland  5 The First of Mothers, the Eldest of Wives: Mary in Finnish-Karelian Folklore;  Epilogue: Our Lady of the Bridges?