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Absent mother god of the west : a Kali lover's journey into Christianity and Judaism / Neela Bhattacharya Saxena.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, (c)2016.Description: 1 online resource (xxxv, 171 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498508063
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BL215 .A274 2016
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Contents:
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.
Subject: 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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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction BL215.5 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn930103072

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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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