(The) Virgin Mary across cultures : devotion among Costa Rican Catholic and Finnish Orthodox women

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• List of figures = ix
• List of maps = xi
• Preface = xii
• Introduction : the many dimensions of Mary = 1
• Religion and gender = 3
• Theology and ethnography = 5
• Lived religion and its interdisciplinary study = 8
• About this book = 9
• 1 Blessed among women : various teachings on Mary = 15
• Apparitions of Mary = 16
• Who is Mary? = 17
• The two ecumenical dogmas on Mary = 21
• Theotokos, the Mother of God = 21
• Semper virgo, the perpetual virgin = 22
• The Roman Catholic dogmas on Mary = 25
• Immaculata conceptio, the immaculate conception = 25
• Assumptio, Mary's assumption to heaven = 28
• Eve and Mary, the bad and the good woman = 31
• Mary and spiritual femininity = 32
• Mary, the embodiment of the church = 33
• Mediatrix : Mary the intercessor = 35
• Mary in the Orthodox tradition = 36
• The Lutheran understanding of Mary = 38
• Luther's commentary on the Magnificat = 40
• Who is missing? The Jewish Miriam = 43
• Maryam in Islam = 48
• 2 The Virgin Mary : a feminist's nightmare? = 55
• The feminist critique of the Mary symbol = 56
• Mary and the pre-Christian goddesses = 57
• Virginity criticized and reinterpreted = 59
• Eve and Mary from a feminist perspective = 61
• Mary, the exemplary woman = 64
• Marianismo as a source of women's oppression = 68
• 3 Costa Rican Catholic women and La Negrita = 76
• The Virgin Mary as Queen of the Americas = 76
• Mary and liberation theology = 79
• La Negrita of Costa Rica = 81
• Costa Rican women and La Negrita = 88
• Miraculous Mary = 92
• To God through the kitchen = 96
• Birth-giving Mary = 97
• Human and divine in Mary : women's ally = 99
• Conclusions = 101
• 4 Jumalanaiti, the Mother of God in contemporary Finland = 107
• The Orthodox tradition, gender, and the Mother of God = 109
• Icons and iconic piety = 111
• Mother of God and Finnish Orthodox women = 115
• Mary as a point of identification and women's shield = 122
• Mary and motherhood = 126
• Mary, sexuality and women's bodiliness = 127
• Mary and women in the church = 132
• Conclusions = 137
• 5 The first of mothers, the eldest of wives : Mary in Finnish-Karelian folklore = 141
• The Song of Mary : how she experienced it all = 146
• Mary as the cosmic midwife = 149
• Mary as the transcendental helper = 153
• Woman's body as a passageway between worlds = 158
• The virgin, the tree and the fruit = 162
• Mary's impregnation by the lingonberry = 163
• The miraculous pregnancy of the maiden Xkik' = 167
• Cross-cultural Mary? = 171
• Epilogue : our Lady of the Bridges? = 178
• Index = 185