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Goddesses in world culture /
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Santa Barbara, Calif. :
Praeger,
c2011.
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Innehållsförteckning:
- v. 1. Asia and Africa. Lakshmi : Hindu goddess of abundance / Constantina Rhodes
- Kali : goddess of life, death, and transcendence / June McDaniel
- Goddess Ganga : her power, mythos, and worldly challenges / Kelly D. Alley
- Village goddesses : vernacular religion in Orissa / Elinor Gadon and Rita Ray
- Mariamma : cosmic creation goddess / Judy Grahn
- Durga : invincible goddess of South Asia / Laura Amazzone
- Kumari : Nepal's eternally living goddess / Jeffrey S. Lidke
- Dakini : the goddess who takes form as a woman / Vicki Noble
- Tara : savior, Buddha, Holy Mother / Miranda Shaw
- Guanyin : goddess of embodied compassion / Betz King
- Xi Wangmu : the great goddess of China / Max Dashu
- Yama no Kami : mountain mother of Japan / Denis Saint Arnault
- Re-membering the cosmogonic goddess of Cheju : Solmundae Halmang / Hea-Kyoung Koh
- Maiden with a thousand slippers : animal helpers and the hero(ine)'s jouney / Dore Ripley
- Sekhmet, Bast, and Hathor : power, passion, and transformation through the Egyptian goddess trinity / Normandi Ellis
- Nut : Egyptian night-sky goddess / Malgorzata (Margaret) Kruszewska
- Queen of Sheba : transformation of an ancient cosmology of interconnectedness / Miri Hunter Haruach
- Goddess Auset : an ancient Egyptian spiritual framework / C. S'thembile West
- Ogbuide : the Igbo Lake goddess / Sabine Jell-Bahlsen
- Osun : Yoruba goddess in Nigeriea and the African diaspora / Diedre L. Badejo
- Iyami Osoronga : primordial mothers of Yoruba spirituality / Aina Olomo.
- v. 2. Eastern Mediterranean and Europe. Nisaba of Eresh : goddess of grain, goddess of writing / Betty DeShong Meador
- Queen of heaven and earth : Inanna-Ishtar of Mesopotamia / Johanna Stuckey
- Asherah : hidden goddess of the Bible / Daniel Cohen
- Lilith : the primordial feminine / M. Kelley Hunter
- Mary Magdalene : tradition, myth, and the search for meaning / Susan Little
- Fat lady of Malta : interpreting her obesity, nudity, and sexuality / Cristina Biaggi
- Goddess Tanit and her revenants in Sicily : Demeter, Persephone, Anne, and Mary / Dolores DeLuise
- Anatolian mother : Kybele / Zubre Indirkas
- Heroine of Troy : the many faces of Helen / Judith Roche
- Gaia : dynamic, diverse, source and place of being / Glenys Livingstone
- Deer mother : Earth's nurturing epicenter of life and death / Kathryn Henderson
- Silkies : an interspecies love story in legend, song, and story / Brenda Peterson
- Swan maiden : the animal that Adam could not name / Boria Sax
- Walk with Berehinia : goddess of Ukraine and Russia / Mary B. Kelly
- Sheela na Gig : dark goddess of Europe / Star Goode
- Goddess-turned-heroine of the Celts : Queen Medb and the sovereignty of Ireland / Miriam Robbins Dexter
- Sulis (Minerva) and other "Celtic" goddesses : the native tradition in Pre-Roman Britain / Cheryl Straffon
- Rhineland deae matronae : collective female deity in Germanic Europe / Dawn E. Work-MaKinne
- Norns : representatives of fate in Old Norse tradition / Karen Bek-Pedersen
- Danu, Raetia, Marisa ; mountain goddess of the Alps / Claire French.
- v. 3. Australia and the Americas. Jillinya : great mother of the Kimberley / Nunya Andrews
- Rock goddesses : Australia's first creator beings / Margaret Grove
- Native American Earth mother : from the Inuit to the Inca / Jordan Paper
- Mother and origin : female divinity in South America / Max Dashu
- Earth and the Nahuas : the goddess of Ancient Mexico / Sylvia Marcos
- Goddess androgyne : Coatlicue of the Aztecs / Lanier Graham
- Xochiquetzal : goddess of flowers and love / Patrizia Granziera
- Our Lady of Guadalupe : mother of a new race / Barbara Flaherty
- Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre : Cuba's virgin of charity / Karen DIllon
- Gran Brijit : Haitian vodou guardian of the cemetery / Kerry Noonan
- Corn mother in North America : life-bringer and culture-bearer / Dave Aftandilian
- Nookomis and Mindemoya : Grandmother Moon and the Old Woman of the mists / Ann Megiskwe Filemyr
- White Buffalo Calf Woman (Pte-san win-yan) : the first and second coming / Ariahn Matamonasa-Bennett
- Wolves and the divine feminine : European and Native American wolf mythologies / Cristina Eisenberg
- Sedna : underwater goddess of the Arctic Sea / Jacqueline Thursby
- Spider Woman : creator and destroyer / Marion W. Copland
- One and the many : the return of the goddess in contemporary American novels / Kathleen L. Nichols
- Audre Lorde's Seboulisa : muse for the death journey / Sharon L. Barnes
- Sekhmet in America : the heart of the sun / Anne Key
- Artemis as protectress of female mysteries : modern worship in teh Dianic tradition in America / Denise Saint Arnault
- American goddess : a modern apotheosis / Michael B. MacDonald
- Deae ex Machina : goddesses from a machine / Kyle Glasgow.