دانلود کتاب Through the Earth Darkly: Female Spirituality in Comparative Perspective

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Cover\nHalf-title\nTitle\nCopyright\nDedication\nContents\nForeword\nPrologue: A Personal Journey\nAcknowledgments\n1. Introduction\n Methodology\n The Structure of This Book\n Limitations of This Study\n A Note on Terminology\n Chronology\nPart I: Framing Europe\n 2. Pre-Christian Saami Religion\n BACKGROUND\n FEMALE SPIRITS\n Cosmic Spirits\n Creation Spirits\n Spirits of the Game and the Herd\n Spirit for the Dead\n Guardian Spirits\n FEMALE RITUALS AND RITUAL ROLES\n Female Participation in \"Male\" Rituals\n Childbirth Rituals\n Female Religious Functionaries\n FEMALE SELF-UNDERSTANDING\n 3. Israelite Religion and Its Precursors\n BACKGROUND\n FEMALE SPIRITS\n Ancient Mesopotamia\n Syro-Palestine\n FEMALE RITUALS AND RITUAL ROLES\n Ancient Mesopotamia\n Ancient Syro-Palestine and the Bible\n FEMALE SELF-UNDERSTANDING\nPart II: East Asia\n 4. Traditional Chinese Religion\n INTRODUCTION\n FEMALE SPIRITS\n The Western Invention of a Chinese High God\n Ancestors\n Earth\n Creator and Other Fertility Deities\n Euhemeristic Goddesses\n Discussion\n FEMALE RITUALS AND RITUAL ROLES\n Female Rituals\n Mixed Gender Rituals\n Ritual Roles\n FEMALE SELF-UNDERSTANDING\n 5. Contemporary Chinese Religion\n INTRODUCTION\n FEMALE SPIRITS\n The Family Dead\n Household Deities\n Earth and Other Cosmic Deities\n Star and Moon Deities\n Creator and Other Fertility Deities\n Euhemeristic Goddesses\n Summary\n FEMALE RITUALS AND RITUAL ROLES\n Female Rituals\n Mixed Gender Rituals\n Ritual Roles\n FEMALE SELF-UNDERSTANDING\n 6. Effects of Chinese Religion on Neighboring Traditions\n Aspects of Japanese Religion\n Aspects of Korean Religion\nPart III: Native North America\n 7. Introduction: Four Vignettes\n Bridging the Continents: A Female Image\n Sedna: From Earth Mother to Sea Mother\n The Amazonian Earth Mother and Her Rituals\n Inca Gender Parallelism\n 8. Anishnabe Religion\n Introduction\n Pre-Contact Female Spirituality\n Prologue\n Some Caves in Northeastern Iowa\n A Rockface in Southeastern Ontario\n Conclusions\n Contemporary Anishnabe Female Spirituality\n Female Spirits\n Female Rituals\n Female Roles in Mixed Gender Rituals\n Female Self-Understanding\n Traditions Corollary to Those of the Anishnabeg: Lenape and Nitsitapi\n The Lenape\'wak\n The Nitsitapi Tribes\n 9. Hopi Religion\n BACKGROUND\n FEMALE SPIRITS\n Earth Mother and Fertility Deities\n Trickster/Culture-Hero\n A Few Other Female Deities\n FEMALE RITUALS AND RITUAL ROLES\n Life-cycle Rituals\n Female Ritual Societies\n Female Roles in Male Society Rituals\n FEMALE SELF-UNDERSTANDING\n 10. Fusion: Dine Menarche Rituals\n BACKGROUND\n CHANGING WOMAN/WHITE PAINTED WOMAN- WHITE SHELL WOMAN\n KINAALDA / ISANAKLESH G0TAL\n Isanaklesh Gotal\n Kinaalda\n INTERPRETATION\nPart IV: Sub-saharan Africa\n 11. Glimpses of West Central African Religions\n Yoruba Religion\n Female Spirits\n Female Rituals and Ritual Roles\n Female Self-Understanding\n Akan Religion\n Female Spirits\n Female Rituals and Ritual Roles\n Female Self-Understanding\n 12. Candomble: An African Religion in the Americas\n FEMALE SPIRITS\n FEMALE RITUALS AND RITUAL ROLES\n FEMALE SELF-UNDERSTANDING\nEndings\n 13. Analysis and Conclusions\n Commonalities of Non-Western Traditions\n Female Spirits\n Female Rituals and Ritual Roles\n Female Self-Understanding\n Comparative Spirituality: West and Non-West\n Towards a Non-Eurocentric, Non-Androcentric Science of Religion\n On the Perversity of Androcentric Translations of Religious Terms\n The Hermeneutics of Suspicion\nEpilogue: Through the Earth Darkly\nAfterword\nNotes\nIndex