Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and Cult of the Virgin Mary 1st Edition Marina 0191648701 9780191648700

This completed downloadable of Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and Cult of the Virgin Mary 1st Edition Marina Warner

Instant downloaded Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and Cult of the Virgin Mary 1st Edition Marina Warner pdf docx epub after payment.

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 0191648701 
• ISBN-13: 9780191648700
• Author: Marina Warner

This unique study of the cult of the Virgin Mary offers a way of thinking about the interrelations of Catholicism and ideas of ideal femininity over the longue duree. An ambitious history of the changing symbolism of the Mother of God, Alone of All Her Sex holds up to the light different emphases occurring at different times, and highlights that the apparent archetype of a magna mater is constantly in play with social and historical conditions and values. Marina Warner’s interesting perspective was forged in the aftermath of significant postwar developments in history, anthropology, and feminism and the book inspired fierce debates when it was first published in 1976. Alone of All Her Sex is also an emotive, personal statement, arising from Warner’s own upbringing as a Catholic. It picks up on classic accounts such as Mary MacCarthy’s Memoirs of a Catholic Girlhood and Antonia White’s Frost in May, as well as the author’s own experiences at a Catholic boarding school. Highly controversial in conservative quarters, the book’s arguments were welcomed and recognised by many readers who shared Warner’s experiences. In this new edition, Marina Warner has written a new preface which reviews the book in the light of the current debate about secularism, faith, nations, and social identities. She takes issue with her original mistaken conclusion that the modern age would see the cult of Mary fade away and revises it in the light of recent popes’ enthusiasm for the Mother of God, a fresh wave of visions and revelations, a new generation of female saints, and the reorientation of theological approaches to the woman question.

Table of contents:

Part One: Virgin
1. Mary in the Gospels
2. Mary in the Apocrypha
3. Virgin Birth
4. Second Eve
5. Virgins and Martyrs
Part Two: Queen
6. The Assumption
7. Maria Regina
Part Three: Bride
8. The Song of Songs
9. Troubadours
10. Madonna
11. Dante, Beatrice, and the Virgin Mary
Part Four: Mother
12. Let it be
13. The Milk of Paradise
14. Mater Dolorosa
15. The Penitent Whore
16. The Immaculate Conception
17. The Moon and the Stars
Part Five: Intercessor
18. Growth in Every Thing
19. Icons and Relics
20. Visions, the Rosary, and War
21. The Hour of our Death

People also search:

all your sex and diamonds

it’s all about sex song

it’s all about sex summary

it’s all about sex baby song

it’s all about sex baby lyrics