Female Stereotypes in Religious Traditions.
This volume contains a collection of studies describing and analyzing stereotypes of women in the religions of Ancient Israel and Mesopotamia, and in Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Medieval Christianity, Islam, Indian Sufism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Tibetan religions, and modern Neopaganism. In all these trad...
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Language: English
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Leiden, Boston:
Brill,
1995.
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Numen Book Series
66.
Numen Book Series Online, ISBN: 9789004380837.
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Call Number: BL458 .F45 1995
- Preliminary Material /
- Ria Kloppenborg and Wouter J. Hanegraaff
- Torn Between Vice and Virtue: Stereotypes of the Widow in Israel and Mesopotamia /
- Karel van der Toorn
- Jeh the Primal Whore? Observations on Zoroastrian Misogyny /
- Albert de Jong
- Images of Women in Ancient Judaism /
- Pieter W. van der Horst
- "Women on the Loose": Stereotypes of Women in the Story of the Medieval Beguines /
- Anke Passenier
- The "Mothers of the Believers": Stereotypes of the Prophet Muhammad's Wives /
- Ghassan Ascha
- Female Sufi Saints on the Indian Subcontinent /
- Netty Bonouvrié
- The Unconventional Woman Saint: Images of Akka Mahādēvi /
- Jan Peter Schouten
- Female Stereotypes in Early Buddhism: The Women of the Therīgāthā /
- Ria Kloppenborg
- Female Stereotypes in Tibetan Religion and Art: Introduction the Genitrix/Progenitress as the Exponent of the Underworld /
- Rosemarie Volkmann
- From the Devil's Gateway to the Goddess Within: The Image of the witch in Neopaganism /
- Woutter J. Hanegraaff
- Index /
- Ria Kloppenborg and Wouter J. Hanegraaff
- Contributors /
- Ria Kloppenborg and Wouter J. Hanegraaff
- Studies in the History of Religions Numen Book Series /
- Ria Kloppenborg and Wouter J. Hanegraaff.