Saxena, Neela Bhattacharya. <br/><br/>
Absent mother god of the west :  a Kali lover's journey into Christianity and Judaism / 
Neela Bhattacharya Saxena. 
 - Lanham, MD :  Lexington Books,  (c)2016. 
 - 1 online resource (xxxv, 171 pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>An Indian woman and her mother god --  Dualities in Narcissus and Goldmund and the Black Swan --  Carving Kali: a Hindu/Buddhist perspective --  Triple goddesses of Greece: traveling through ancient lands --  Matricide: slow destruction of the mother god --  Theotokos: ascendant Christianity's mother of god --  Yogini Magdalene: gnostic eve to the Black Madonna --  Shakti Shekhinah: immanence returns to the west --  Mother god on the Silk Road of consciousness. 
<br/><br/> 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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781498508063 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2020739481 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Kālī (Hindu deity) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Femininity of God.<br/>God--Motherhood.<br/>Christianity.<br/>Judaism.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BL215  / .A274 2016