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Carver, Dax Donald. "Goddess Dethroned: The Evolution of Morgan le Fay." unrestricted, 2006. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04282006-082115/.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2006.<br>Timothy Renick, committee chair; Kathryn McClymond, Jonathan Herman, committee members. Electronic text (p. 54 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Apr. 30, 2007; title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references (p. 51-54).
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Reid-Bowen, Paul. "Thinking goddess/nature : feminist metaphysics and the thealogical imagination." Thesis, University of Gloucestershire, 2002. http://eprints.glos.ac.uk/3056/.

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This thesis contributes to a small but growing body of academic research that is concerned with the late twentieth and early twenty-first century religion of Goddess feminism and the religio-political discourse of thealogy. Current academic approaches to Goddess feminism have been primarily historical, -- I- phenomenological, psychological and sociological studies that have presented descriptive and/or functional accounts of this religion. Relatively little academic work has emerged from within Goddess feminism. Still less has attempted to delineate the meaning of a female/feminist deity and r
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Glowski, Janice M. "Living goddess as incarnate image : the Kumārī Cult of Nepal /." Connect to this title online, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1105391104.

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Blake, Lisa. "Visualizing Amman: womanhood, the goddess, and middle-class modernity in Tamil religious cinema." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=106332.

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This thesis examines Tamil Ammaṉ films (ammaṉ paṭaṅkaḷ), a specific genre of South Indian cinema that centres on the figure of the fierce goddess Māriyammaṉ. The study analyzes the films in the context of class and caste in South India, focusing specifically on how India's emergent middle class has shaped changing constructions of womanhood and religious practice in South India. Middle-class status is an overarching and recurrent theme in Ammaṉ films, which also consistently deploy and negotiate ideas about "tradition" and "modernity". I argue that the films themselves both represent and reify
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Rowan, Kelley Flannery. "Monstrum in femine figura : the patriarchal devaluation of the Irish goddess, the Mor-rioghan." FIU Digital Commons, 2005. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1058.

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This work explores the transformation and eventual demotion of the goddess in ancient Ireland through the evolution of patriarchal mythos and as a consequence of economic factors, socio-political and religious manifestations, as well as agricultural developments. The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between leading theories of social, cultural and religious change in prehistory and early history and the historical process of the demotion of the Irish goddess figure, the Mor-rioghan. The Mor-rioghan is the subject of exploration as her militarization and subsequent incarnati
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Figlarz, Marissa. "A song to "The beautiful Goddess": Text, ritual, and devotion in the «Apirami Antati»." Thesis, McGill University, 2010. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=86843.

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My project locates the 18th century Tamil poem Apirāmi Antāti at the interstices of popular Tamil devotion (bhakti), a form of South Indian Tantra known as Śrīvidyā, and the upper-caste (Brahmin) social, cultural, and ritual worlds that engender the text. Bringing together inter-textual, and ethnographic analysis, I argue that the simultaneous appearance of Tantric themes, alongside themes of Brahmanic domesticity in the text point towards Śrīvidyā, a practice that integrates esoteric Tantric practice with uppercaste Brahmanic social behaviour. My linkage of the Apirāmi Antāti with Śrīvidyā is
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Foulston, Lynn. "At the feet of the goddess : a comparative study of local goddess worship in Khurdapur, a village settlement in Orissa and Cholavandan, a small town in Tamilnadu." Thesis, University of South Wales, 1999. https://pure.southwales.ac.uk/en/studentthesis/at-the-feet-of-the-goddess(7d6fe66d-ec25-4015-a2c9-63fe219d71e6).html.

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This thesis is an examination of the local goddesses and their worship in two contrasting field sites. The settlement of Khurdapur consists of five small villages situated a short distance outside Bhubaneswar in Orissa. Cholavandan, on the other hand, is a small town located near to Madurai in southern Tamilnadu. While this study seeks to provide a comprehensive view of local goddess worship in differing environments it also addresses three questions. 1) Is the goddess-centred literature, written at the beginning of the century, still applicable to contemporary goddesses? 2) Do local goddesses
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Vincett, Giselle Louise. "Feminism and religion : a study of Christian feminists and goddess feminists in the UK." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.509086.

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Hamilton, H. Dawn. "Myth and Archetype in the Studio| An Artist's Encounter with a Goddess." Thesis, Prescott College, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1573604.

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<p> This thesis is based upon my artistic interaction and response to the 5,000-year-old myth of the Sumerian deity, Inanna. The main element of this thesis consists of a body of artwork that evolved out of the interweaving of textual, psychological, and artistic research. The artwork is an artist's response to a particular juncture in the descent portion of Inanna's myth . . . the moment of her transformation. This amalgamation of artistic and textual artifacts documents the power of an ancient story, from a long-dead culture, to reach through time and touch an individual life. The written do
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Villanueva, Karen Nelson. "Invoking the blessings of the Tibetan Buddhist Goddess Tara through chanting her mantra to overcome fear." Thesis, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3606937.

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<p> In Tibetan Buddhism, the Goddess Tara represents the feminine nature of the divine. She is a popular Tibetan deity who has been embraced by many Western feminists because she is said to have rejected the belief extolling that one could not become enlightened in a female body. Vowing to always be reborn as a woman until she attained enlightenment as a Buddha, she is reputed to come swiftly and compassionately to our aid when called upon. She may be invoked through prayer, visualization, and mantra, of which there are several specifically ascribed to her many forms of manifestation. </p><p>
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Kuchuk, Nika. "From the Temple to the Witch’s Coven: Journeying West with Kali Ma, Fierce Goddess of Transformation. A Study of Contemporary Kali Worship in North America: Syncretism, Sacred Relationships, and the Gendered Divine." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/23711.

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This thesis explores the cult and mythos of the goddess Kali both in her Eastern and Western contexts, comparing and contrasting them in order to gain a better understanding of the Western appropriations of Kali within feminist goddess spirituality. Utilizing a variety of methods, including ethnographic research conducted at Kali temples in California, this research is aimed at providing an entry into the lived contemporary tradition of the Western Kali within goddess spirituality circles, focusing on embodied experience, devotion, ritual, and syncretic practices. Kali, a fierce Indian goddes
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Kaura, Kathleen. ""The Body of the Goddess: Religious and Political Power of the Indian Female Body and Ruptures of Resistance"." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu154257240118643.

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Miller, Aimee H. "Goddesses of Color: Interfaith Altars." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/773.

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This paper explores the intertwined history of certain goddesses of the Middle East and the Americas. This history informs the original invented contemporary deities that my project centers around. Using recycled materials and collected objects, my project displays two religious altars, one from my heritage and one from my experience living in Brazil. One altar is based on afro-Brazilian sea goddesses, and one is a contemporary imagined interpretation of a Judeo-Christian female figure. The two altars together compose an installation that seeks to unify a pagan practice and two distinct monoth
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Hansson, Lena. "Gudinnan Hathor : en studie ur metallurgiverksamhetens perspektiv som belyser auktoritära strukturer i forna Egypten." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Religionsvetenskap, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-4878.

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Denna studie undersöker gudinnan Hathors funktion i forna Egypten med utgångspunkt från metallurgiverksamheten som Hathor var beskyddare över. Studien undersöker vad för behov som uppstår i metallurgikontexten och hur denna kan ha påverkat och speglats i förställningar kring gudinnan Hathors funktion i forna Egypten. Studien stödjer sig på William Padens teori om religiösa Världar för att därigenom belysa hur behov i en specifik kontext kan spelgas i den Religiösa Världen. Undersökningen baseras på tolkningar av en rad olika forskningsrapporter. Dels etnografiska dokumentationer om metallurgik
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Pettersson, Joanna. "From Rome to Ireland : a comparative analysis of two pagan goddesses and a Christian saint." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-353022.

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In Celtic religious studies, it is often difficult to find reliable textual sources if you are working with pre-Christian religion, since all text is written in a Christian context. As a result, Celtic scholars have to look outside of the pre-Christian Celtic context, to search for knowledge elsewhere. For example, one may use texts from Classical writers (such as Caesar) who wrote about Celts they encountered, or look to Christian material (in particular saints’ lives) to search for clues of pagan traditions which may have survived into Christianity. This has resulted in that certain Celtic p
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Wilbur, Julie L. "Spirituality and spiritual sickness in Alice Walker's later works." Virtual Press, 1993. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/864941.

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Walker's latest three novels address in some way walker's notions of spirituality and her idea that many people suffer from a type of spiritual sickness which prevents them from realizing the fullest extent of their spirituality. The well as with themselves. Possessing the Secret of Joy doesnot discuss Walker's thoughts on spirituality as much as her earlier works. Instead, the book focuses on Tashi, the main character, who suffers a form of physical mutilation which leads to her spiritual suffering.By looking at Walker's novels and by reading other works, both fictional and nonfictional, incl
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Livingstone, Glenys D. "The female metaphor - virgin, mother, crone - of the dynamic cosmological unfolding : her embodiment in seasonal ritual as a catalyst for personal and cultural change /." View thesis View thesis, 2002. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030506.123955/index.html.

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Bauer-Harsant, Ursula. "Many names, many shapes : the war goddess in early Irish literature, with reference to Indian texts : a study in the phenomenology of religion." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/26267.

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When studying the Irish texts it soon becomes apparent that the war-goddesses cannot be seen in isolation but only in relationship with a male hero. Two heroes have extensive dealings with the war-goddesses, Cú Chulainn, the famous hero of Ulster, and the Dagda of the Túatha Dé Danann. Cú Chulainn generally benefits from the activities of the Badb, the screeching battle crow, while the Morrgan displays a relentless hostility towards him. One important fact which emerges from these stories is the existence of a deep-seated similarity between the great hero and the otherworldly females which bec
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Bell, Roslynne S. "Power and piety : Augustan imagery and the cult of the Magna Mater." Thesis, University of Kent, 2007. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.550590.

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Gamelin, Thomas. "Deux déesses pour un dieu. Des triades pour décrire des principes cosmologiques." Thesis, Lille 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013LIL30027.

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Dans la religion égyptienne ancienne, l'association de trois divinités pour former une triade locale est répandue. Composées de deux dieux (le père et le fils) et d'une déesse (la mère), ces triades forment un schéma "familial", à l'image de la triade constituée d'Osiris, D'Isis et d'Horus. Parallèlement à ces triades "classiques", il existe des groupes divins plus inhabituels avec comme particularité d'avoir pour troisième membre une déesse et non un dieu, sans que celle-ci soit une déesse enfant ; ce sont les groupes gravés dans des scènes d'offrande qui ont été étudiés. Quel peut être alors
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Raivio, Magdalena. "Gudinnefeminister : Monica Sjöös och Starhawks berättande - subjektskonstruktion, idéinnehåll och feministiska affiniteter." Doctoral thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för samhälls- och kulturvetenskap, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-30649.

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This thesis examines the discursive position of 'goddess feminism', in relation to some of the difference- and eco feminist positions from the1960s and until today. In focus are the texts of the two goddess feminists, Monica Sjöö and Starhawk. The thesis contributes to a historiographical (re)situating of their political and religious narratives. It also contributes to an elaborated understanding of these goddess feminists and the goddess feminist discourse they are part of. The tentative feminist figuration 'the goddess identified feminist’ is articulated as a tool to discuss the religious an
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Montgomery, Cameron. "Sacred States: Protest Between Church and State in a Postsecular Age." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/35858.

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In the age of mass information, globalization, and peer-to-peer social networks, the traditional markers of identity and elective affinities, particularly those of religion and nationalism, are shifting in relation to contemporary trends. The field of Religious Studies has been influenced by a series of ‘post’s: postsecular, postmodern, postcolonial, and post 9/11. The rise of revolutionary religious movements internationally is a hallmark characteristic of the postsecular age. Participants in these movements are variously characterized as religious dissidents, militant secularists, neo-fas
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Orr, Janette. "The Great Goddess, her vestiges uncovered in three patriarchal religions." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ30972.pdf.

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Livingstone, Glenys D. "The female metaphor - virgin, mother, crone - of the dynamic cosmological unfolding : her embodiment in seasonal ritual as a catalyst for personal and cultural change." Thesis, View thesis View thesis, 2002. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/205.

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This research is a study of the Female Metaphor in her three aspects of Virgin, Mother and Crone. It is an interpretation of these three faces as representing the Dynamic by which the Cosmos unfolds, that is, the extant Creativity that is in continual transformation and has always been so. Accordingly, as this thesis takes the Cosmos to be a seamless whole, the conscious alignment with the continual process of transformation innate to Being. Thomas Berry and Brian Swimme call the composition of these three, cosmic grammar. The ritual celebration of seasonal points are then developed as a metho
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Saadi-nejad, Manya [Verfasser]. "Anāhitā:Transformations of an Iranian goddess / Manya Saadi-nejad." Berlin : Freie Universität Berlin, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1187243892/34.

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Bradley, Cynthia. "The changing goddess : the religious lives of Hindu women in West Bengal." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.416946.

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Isaacs-Martin, Wendy Jane. "The lonely goddess : the lack of benevolent female relationships in Hindu and Shi'ite mythology." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10887.

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Bibliography: leaves 105-116.<br>This minor dissertation engages a theoretical feminist discourse to identify the lack of benevolent female relationships in the development of religious mythology. The study explores two diverse belief systems, Hinduism and Shi'ism, in order to demonstrate that the feminine is reduced to a subservient and controlled creative force across different religious and cultural systems. The study further develops the roles of the woman in the religious tradition, as mother and nurse to the hero and the guardian of male symbols and language. I have drawn on the feminist
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Sarkar, Bihani. "The heroic cult of the sovereign goddess in mediaeval India." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:aa716445-ae5d-4630-a9c2-31a5873a9ded.

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This thesis examines why the cult of the sovereign goddess was considered important for the expression of royal power in mediaeval India. In literature and ritual, the goddess was conceptualized as the sovereign of heaven and earth. Her cult was heroic because it was primarily a cult of warriors: a good hero was one who worshipped the goddess for great powers, foremost among them being sovereignty. Certain ritual practices of the cult such as self-mutilation formed the criteria for a warrior- worshipper’s heroism. By assessing the available epigraphical, literary, scriptural and anthropologica
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Basson, Danielle. "The Goddess Hathor and the women of ancient Egypt." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/20292.

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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In studying ancient Egypt researchers have a great advantage, in that there is a multitude of recorded material to draw from. Unfortunately for anyone interested in studying ancient Egyptian women, the recorded material was most often recorded by, commissioned by, and concerned with, men; royal or high-ranking men to be precise (Robins, 1993: 11-12). Thus, we must look into non-textual artefacts and offerings which may have a symbolic meaning. Though, the textual sources should not be neglected, since these may hold clues to t
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West, David Reid. "Some cults of Greek goddesses and female daemons of oriental origin : especially in relation to the mythology of goddesses and demons in the Semitic world." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1990. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1263/.

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In Chapter One we discuss the evidence for Mycenaean trade and colonisation in the Orient, and for oriental trade and colonisation in the Aegean and Greece. We begin with such subjects as archaeological artefacts, artistic motifs and styles of architecture, then consider the linguistic evidence, such as toponyms, personal names and the LA tablets. The evidence for contact is overwhelming. In Chapter Two we consider the evidence for Semitic motifs in the iconography, mythology and names of Greek goddesses connected with nature. Thus Semitic influence is clear in the case of Artemis and Rhea as
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Dedes, Eleni. "Oracular priestesses and goddesses of ancient Krete, Delphi, and Dodona." Thesis, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3712244.

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<p> This dissertation discusses the roles of oracular priestesses and Goddesses in Krete and Greece. The appointment of oracular priestesses to the service of a particular Goddess such as Gaia or Athena is reviewed. In addition, this study demonstrates the extent to which the worship of Goddesses, led by oracular priestesses, was a pre-eminent aspect of religion in ancient Krete and Greece. Various types of conduits and methods used to receive oracular messages are also considered, including trees, baetyls, the inhalation of gaseous vapors, the chewing of laurel leaves, and the possible use of
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Goodrich, Elise. "Spiritual heritage : understanding and embodying female spirituality through creative practice (1998-2004)." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2004. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/15892/1/Elise_Goodrich_Thesis.pdf.

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This investigation into embodied female spirituality clearly required an approach which was able to holistically engage all human faculties - different aspects of mind, body, spirit, intuition and memory. Consequently it was essential to use my creative practice as an integrative aspect of the research. I have used my creative practice across health and healing, Sufi processes and light based media to investigate, develop and practice 'embodied female spirituality'. A shamanic-performance paradigm and feminism have been central, philosophically, to the study. In addition I have chosen to expli
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Goodrich, Elise. "Spiritual Heritage : Understanding and Embodying Female Spirituality Through Creative Practice (1998-2004)." Queensland University of Technology, 2004. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/15892/.

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This investigation into embodied female spirituality clearly required an approach which was able to holistically engage all human faculties - different aspects of mind, body, spirit, intuition and memory. Consequently it was essential to use my creative practice as an integrative aspect of the research. I have used my creative practice across health and healing, Sufi processes and light based media to investigate, develop and practice 'embodied female spirituality'. A shamanic-performance paradigm and feminism have been central, philosophically, to the study. In addition I have chosen to expli
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Fantacussi, Vanessa Auxiliadora. "O culto da deusa Ísis entre os romanos no século II : representações nas Metamorfoses de Apuleio /." Assis : [s.n.], 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/93450.

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Orientador: Ivan Esperança Rocha<br>Banca: Andrea Lucia Dorini de O. C. Rossi<br>Banca: Margarida Maria de Carvalho<br>Resumo: O culto da deusa Ísis foi importante na religião egípcia, especialmente com relação às características de maternidade e de fertilidade. Este culto foi levado para fora das localidades egípcias, por diversos motivos, sendo inserido em outras culturas e identificado com as divindades locais. Na cultura romana, o culto isíaco esteve mais presente com o festival Navigium Isidis e com os rituais de iniciação nos mistérios da deusa, não perdendo as características que giram
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Beck, Noémie. "Goddesses in Celtic Religion : cult and mythology : a comparative study of ancient Ireland, Britain and Gaul." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009LYO20084.

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This work consists of a comparative study of the female deities venerated by the Celts of Gaul, Ancient Britain and Ancient Ireland from the 8th c. BC to around 400 AD. The Celts had the peculiarity of transmitting their culture, religious beliefs and myths exclusively by oral means, from one generation to another. The available data relating to Celtic goddesses are thus all indirect and of a different nature and period according to the country concerned. They fall into three categories: contemporary Classical texts, which mainly pertain to Gaul and are very rare; the vernacular literature of
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Fantacussi, Vanessa Auxiliadora [UNESP]. "O culto da deusa Ísis entre os romanos no século II: representações nas Metamorfoses de Apuleio." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/93450.

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Baker, Vanessa G. "Women's Pilgrimage as Repertoiric Performance: Creating Gender and Spiritual Identity through Ritual." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1268802573.

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Pettersson, Joanna. "Gula & Ninisina; identiska eller olika? : en jämförande textanalys av två gudinnor från Mesopotamien." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-274975.

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Thousands of years ago in Ancient Mesopotamia there was an abundant Pantheon of gods and goddesses. Circa 3000–2300 B.C.E, separate cults started to form relating to two of these goddesses: Ninisina and Gula. They were quite similar, both associated with healing, as were several other goddesses in the area. Over time they all fused, and their names disappeared one by one, until one remained; Gula. Scholars of today often tend to see them all as one type of goddess, their names interchangeable. This essay researches Ninisina and Gula, and the intention is to see if they truly are the “same”. A
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Bianchini, Flávia. "O estudo da Religião da Grande Deusa nas escrituras indianas e o Canto I do Devi Gita." Universidade Federal da Paraí­ba, 2013. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/4203.

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Hedman, Hanna. "Hindu goddesses as role models for women? : a qualitative study of some middle class women’s views on being a woman in the Hindu society." Thesis, University of Gävle, Ämnesavdelningen för religionsvetenskap, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-3627.

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<p>Denna uppsats baseras på en fältstudie genomförd i Faridabad, Indien våren 2007. Syftet är att undersöka vilken roll hinduiska gudinnor spelar för kvinnor. För att uppfylla det syftet studeras också de intervjuade kvinnornas underliggande uppfattningar om jämställdhet.</p><p>För att kunna uppfylla syftet med uppsatsen har en kvalitativ metod använts och 19 intervjuer har genomförts. Informanterna har fått svara på frågor som handlar om att vara kvinna i det hinduiska samhället och deras åsikter om hur kvinnors situation bör ändras. När resultaten från intervjuerna analyserats har jag inspir
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Dobia, Brenda. "Śakti Yātrā locating power, questioning desire : a women's pilgrimage to the temple of Kāmākhyā /." View thesis, 2008. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/32785.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Western Sydney, 2008.<br>A thesis presented to the University of Western Sydney, College of Arts, Centre for Cultural Research, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Includes bibliographies.
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Stevens, Rachael. "Red Tara : lineages of literature and practice." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:27381b38-c580-4d0b-b7d5-f87abcc50afd.

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Tārā is arguably the most popular goddess of the Tibetan Buddhist pantheon. She is well known in her Green, White, and Twenty-one forms. However, the numerous red aspects of the divinity have long been overlooked in both popular and academic literature on the goddess. This thesis aims to redress this balance. This thesis presents the various manifestations of Red Tārā in the form of a survey of the literary and practice lineages of this goddess throughout Tibetan Buddhist history. The intention of the thesis is to examine individual forms of Red Tārā, excluding Kurukullā (who has receiv
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Lundgren, Veronika. "Gudinnetro : En kartläggning över gudinnetemplet i Forsbacka." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Akademin för utbildning och ekonomi, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-8392.

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Detta är en kartläggande uppsats som har i uppgift att beskriva en ”ny” religiös tradition. Det är även en jämförande uppsats mellan Glastonburys tempel och templet i Söderhamn. År 2002 grundades templet i Glastonbury, som var det första templet som grundades inom denna gren av gudinnetron. År 2006 grundades templet i Söderhamn, det är det enda templet i Sverige med denna inriktning. Genom att jämföra dessa tempel, och studera deras tro, vill jag komma fram till likheter och olikheter mellan dessa tempel och studera svårigheter denna religiösa gren har stött på. På grund av ett ökat intresse i
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Imperiali-Decker, Odile. "Le mythe de la Vierge Noire de Montserrrat : formation et instrumentalisations (IXe-XXIe siècle)." Phd thesis, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00954446.

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Grâce à la présence et à l'instrumentalisation de la Mare de Déu, l'abbaye et le massif de Montserrat sont devenus, au fil des siècles, un symbole religieux et un bastion du christianisme, puis les gardiens des traditions, de la culture et de l'identité catalanes. Le mythe fondateur religieux, lié à la Vierge de Montserrat, est associé au mythe fondateur de la Catalogne, lié au comte de Barcelone Guifré le Velu, de sorte que religion et identité nationale sont étroitement imbriquées dès la fin du Moyen Âge. Beaucoup d'autres légendes sont élaborées à cette époque, mais la relation entre les Ca
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Pettersson, Joanna. "The Sheela-na-gig and the creation of her history : a comparative analysis of two theories concerning the mysterious medieval figure." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-329942.

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After scholars started conducting research on the medieval Sheela-na-gig carvings, a number of theories regarding the purpose and origin of the figure have been suggested. The question has been tackled through many different approaches, but still remains unfinished as there are no written records explaining what the Sheela-na-gig figure actually is. Scholars have divided into different areas, approaching the discussion from different disciplines: art history, medieval social history, and religious history (both Christian and pre-Christian) to name a few. As the figure is usually found on Chris
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Onda, François-Joseph. "Le féminin dans les paysages pré-chrétiens irlandais." Phd thesis, Université Rennes 2, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00725801.

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La présente étude s'intéresse aux popula-tions installées en Irlande avant l'arrivée du christianisme (aux environs du Ve siècle de notre ère), et plus précisément aux bâtisseurs des tombes à couloirs du Néolithique ainsi qu'aux Celtes. L'omniprésence d'une com-posante féminine symbolique dans les pay-sages pré-chrétiens (qu'ils soient naturels, mégalithiques ou littéraires) est au centre de cette analyse, qui prend en considération le caractère matrifocal des sociétés archaïques et en évalue l'impact sociétal et rituel chez les Celtes. La thèse examine la spécificité de la perception des reli
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Halperin, Ehud. "Haḍimbā Becoming Herself: A Himalayan Goddess in Change". Thesis, 2012. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8N30412.

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The dissertation examines the cult of the goddess Haḍimbā that is located in the Kullu Valley of the West Indian Himalaya (Himachal Pradesh). Massive transformations introduced in the region in recent years by means of better transportation systems, a developing capitalist economy, new technologies, and, most prominently, tourism have drastically affected life in the region and have destabilized traditional social and cultural patterns. These changes are engaged by the residents of the Kullu Valley in various ways that are informed and oriented by their traditional worldview and ritual system.
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Kent, Jane E. "Reinventing the goddess : emanations of the feminine archetype in the contemporary world." Thesis, 2007. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/546072.

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For many years I had experienced events that indicated the possibility of contact with another subtle level of reality that existed apart from, yet permeated the physical world. These experiences necessarily challenged the ontological and epistemological parameters of the scientific-rationalist discourse model that is foundational to the Western cultural narrative. From the perspective of that model, experiences of another reality could be only understood as delusions, fantasies or the products of diseased brain. Yet I seemed rational, capable and functional. Those mysterious and inexplicable
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Darby, Erin Danielle. "Interpreting Judean Pillar Figurines: Gender and Empire in Judean Apotropaic Ritual." Diss., 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/5661.

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<p>This dissertation investigates Iron II Judean pillar figurines and their place in Judean ritual. First, the project identifies major trends in the interpretation of figurines and evaluates them using ancient Near Easter texts, archaeological context, the Hebrew Bible, and iconography. Second, it focuses on the significance of major iconographic shifts in figurine production, using the various types of data to understand these shifts and their implications for figurine function. </p><p>The dissertation first analyzes four major trends in the study of these statuettes, showing that interprete
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Adair, Jennette. "Certain aspects of the Goddess in the Ancient Near East, 10,000-330 BCE." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2227.

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In the historical tapestry of the development of the Goddess, from 10,000 - 330 BCE one golden thread shines through. Despite the vicissitudes of differing status, she remained essentially the same, namely divine. She was continuously sought in the many mysteries, mystic ideologies and through the manifestations that she inspired. In all the countries of the Ancient Near East, the mother goddess was the life giving creatrix and regenerator of the world and the essence of the generating force that seeds new life. While her name may have altered in the various areas, along with that of her
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