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Hindu goddesses --- Déesses hindoues --- Hinduism --- Hindu Goddesses --- beliefs --- the Divine Feminine --- sacred texts --- mythology --- Tantrism --- worship --- festivals --- pilgrimage --- the Temples of the Goddess --- Sakti

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This book offers a specialized study focusing on the phenomenon of the female mystic and the divine feminine in the global Sufi experience. Drawing on classical and modern periods, it presents a considered approach to the topic from the disciplines of literature, history, religion, philosophy, language and linguistics, and anthropology. As each author offers their expertise in their respective fields, each article, therefore, whilst a standalone piece, contributes collectively to the multidisciplinary understanding of the female and the feminine in Sufi experience. The book addresses the topic from different points of view, showing the authors’ interest in subjectivity, literary and artistic productivity, as well as notable figures of importance, but narrows the purview of its examination to case studies, historical periods, and philosophical concerns of relevance. Focused areas of inquiry include the economic power of Sufi women in history; the hierophanic dialectics of mystical Islamic poetry with regard to “the feminine” experience in Yunus Emre; the ontology of the sacred feminine and female mystic in classical Sufi poiesis; the mystical autochthonous presence in local Sufi praxis of Indonesia; reconfigurations of gendered understanding in Argentinian Sufism; and symbolism and spiritual psychology in Sufi cosmology. This book is an interdisciplinary publication that brings together an international host of scholars from around the world, including University of Amsterdam, University of St Gallen, University of Haifa, Western Sydney University, Monash University, and Australian National University.

Research & information: general --- sacred feminine --- divine feminine in Sufism --- Sufi orders --- female saints --- female leadership in Sufism --- Dewi Anjani --- Nahdlatul Wathan --- Lombok --- Indonesia --- indigenous feminine --- Sufism --- female mystic --- divine feminine --- phenomenology --- history --- mysticism --- Aredvi Sura Anahita --- Mount Qaf --- Divine Feminine --- Xvarnah --- Khezr --- mystical experience --- Yunus Emre --- the Feminine --- hierophanic dialectics --- deconstruction --- literary analysis --- phenomenology of Sufi --- arfāq al-niswān (women’s donations) --- sisters --- mothers --- ḥaqq al-wālida (mother’s right) --- poverty --- charity --- khidma (service) --- Sufism in Latin America --- Islam in Latin America --- gender and Sufism --- Naqshbandiyya Haqqaniyya

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This book offers a specialized study focusing on the phenomenon of the female mystic and the divine feminine in the global Sufi experience. Drawing on classical and modern periods, it presents a considered approach to the topic from the disciplines of literature, history, religion, philosophy, language and linguistics, and anthropology. As each author offers their expertise in their respective fields, each article, therefore, whilst a standalone piece, contributes collectively to the multidisciplinary understanding of the female and the feminine in Sufi experience. The book addresses the topic from different points of view, showing the authors’ interest in subjectivity, literary and artistic productivity, as well as notable figures of importance, but narrows the purview of its examination to case studies, historical periods, and philosophical concerns of relevance. Focused areas of inquiry include the economic power of Sufi women in history; the hierophanic dialectics of mystical Islamic poetry with regard to “the feminine” experience in Yunus Emre; the ontology of the sacred feminine and female mystic in classical Sufi poiesis; the mystical autochthonous presence in local Sufi praxis of Indonesia; reconfigurations of gendered understanding in Argentinian Sufism; and symbolism and spiritual psychology in Sufi cosmology. This book is an interdisciplinary publication that brings together an international host of scholars from around the world, including University of Amsterdam, University of St Gallen, University of Haifa, Western Sydney University, Monash University, and Australian National University.

Research & information: general --- sacred feminine --- divine feminine in Sufism --- Sufi orders --- female saints --- female leadership in Sufism --- Dewi Anjani --- Nahdlatul Wathan --- Lombok --- Indonesia --- indigenous feminine --- Sufism --- female mystic --- divine feminine --- phenomenology --- history --- mysticism --- Aredvi Sura Anahita --- Mount Qaf --- Divine Feminine --- Xvarnah --- Khezr --- mystical experience --- Yunus Emre --- the Feminine --- hierophanic dialectics --- deconstruction --- literary analysis --- phenomenology of Sufi --- arfāq al-niswān (women’s donations) --- sisters --- mothers --- ḥaqq al-wālida (mother’s right) --- poverty --- charity --- khidma (service) --- Sufism in Latin America --- Islam in Latin America --- gender and Sufism --- Naqshbandiyya Haqqaniyya --- sacred feminine --- divine feminine in Sufism --- Sufi orders --- female saints --- female leadership in Sufism --- Dewi Anjani --- Nahdlatul Wathan --- Lombok --- Indonesia --- indigenous feminine --- Sufism --- female mystic --- divine feminine --- phenomenology --- history --- mysticism --- Aredvi Sura Anahita --- Mount Qaf --- Divine Feminine --- Xvarnah --- Khezr --- mystical experience --- Yunus Emre --- the Feminine --- hierophanic dialectics --- deconstruction --- literary analysis --- phenomenology of Sufi --- arfāq al-niswān (women’s donations) --- sisters --- mothers --- ḥaqq al-wālida (mother’s right) --- poverty --- charity --- khidma (service) --- Sufism in Latin America --- Islam in Latin America --- gender and Sufism --- Naqshbandiyya Haqqaniyya

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This landmark work presents the most illuminating portrait we have to date of goddesses and sacred female imagery in Western culture-from prehistory to contemporary goddess movements. Beautifully written, lucidly conceived, and far-ranging in its implications, this work will help readers gain a better appreciation of the complexity of the social forces- mostly androcentric-that have shaped the symbolism of the sacred feminine. At the same time, it charts a new direction for finding a truly egalitarian vision of God and human relations through a feminist-ecological spirituality. Rosemary Radford Ruether begins her exploration of the divine feminine with an analysis of prehistoric archaeology that challenges the popular idea that, until their overthrow by male-dominated monotheism, many ancient societies were matriarchal in structure, governed by a feminine divinity and existing in harmony with nature. For Ruether, the historical evidence suggests the reality about these societies is much more complex. She goes on to consider key myths and rituals from Sumerian, Babylonian, Egyptian, and Anatolian cultures; to examine the relationships among gender, deity, and nature in the Hebrew religion; and to discuss the development of Mariology and female mysticism in medieval Catholicism, and the continuation of Wisdom mysticism in Protestanism. She also gives a provocative analysis of the meeting of Aztec and Christian female symbols in Mexico and of today's neo-pagan movements in the United States.

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Women in New Religions offers an engaging look at women’s evolving place in the birth and development of new religious movements. It focuses on four disparate new religions—Mormonism, Seventh-day Adventism, The Family International, and Wicca—to illuminate their implications for gender socialization, religious leadership and participation, sexuality, and family ideals. Religious worldviews and gender roles interact with one another in complicated ways. This is especially true within new religions, which frequently set roles for women in ways that help the movements to define their boundaries in relation to the wider society. As new religious movements emerge, they often position themselves in opposition to dominant society and concomitantly assert alternative roles for women. But these religions are not monolithic: rather than defining gender in rigid and repressive terms, new religions sometimes offer possibilities to women that are not otherwise available. Vance traces expectations for women as the religions emerge, and transformation of possibilities and responsibilities for women as they mature. Weaving theory with examination of each movement’s origins, history, and beliefs and practices, this text contextualizes and situates ideals for women in new religions. The book offers an accessible analysis of the complex factors that influence gender ideology and its evolution in new religious movements, including the movements’ origins, charismatic leadership and routinization, theology and doctrine, and socio-historical contexts. It shows how religions shape definitions of women’s place in a way that is informed by response to social context, group boundaries, and identity. Additional Resources

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