Fierce Feminine Divinities of Eurasia and Latin America
Autor: | Ma?gorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba |
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EAN: | 9781137535009 |
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Sprache: | Englisch |
Produktart: | eBook |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 09.09.2015 |
Untertitel: | Baba Yaga, K?l?, Pombagira, and Santa Muerte |
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Schlagworte: | America Baba Yaga Eurasia Fierce goddesses Ka?li? Latin America Pombagira Santa Muerte Slavic fairy tales Umbanda cross-cultural culture death liminality marginality mythology religion religions syncretic religions women |
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In this provocative book, Ma?gorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba examines untamed feminine divinities from around the world. Although distant geographically, these divine figures are surprisingly similar-representing concepts of liminality, outsiderhood, and structural inferiority, embodied in the divine feminine. These strong, independent, unrestrained figures are connected to the periphery and to magical powers, including power over sexuality, transformation, and death. Oleszkiewicz-Peralba offers a study of the origin and worship of four feminine deities across cultures and continents: the Slavic Baba Yaga, the Hindu K?l?, the Brazilian Pombagira, and the Mexican Santa Muerte. Although these divinities have often been marginalized through dismissal, demonization, and dulcification, they continue to be extremely attractive, as they empower their devotees confronting them with the ultimate reality of transience and death. Oleszkiewicz-Peralba examines how these sacred icons have been adapted and transformed across time and place.
Ma?gorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba is Associate Professor of Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio, USA. Her publications include The Black Madonna in Latin America and Europe: Tradition and Transformation (2007), and Teatro popular peruano: del precolombino al siglo XX (1995), as well as numerous scholarly book chapters and articles.