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Courtesans and Tantric Consorts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 299

Courtesans and Tantric Consorts

In Courtesans and Tantric Consorts, Serinity Young takes the reader on a journey through more than 2000 years of Buddhist history, revealing the colourful mosaic of beliefs that inform Buddhist views about gender and sexuality.

Women who Fly
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 377

Women who Fly

From the beautiful apsaras of Hindu myth to the swan maidens of European fairy tales, tales of flying women - some carried by wings, others by rainbows, floating scarves, or flying horses - reveal both fascination with and ambivalence about female power and sexuality. In Women Who Fly,Serinity Young examines the motif of the flying woman as it appears in a wide variety of cultures and historical periods, expressed in legends, myths, rituals, sacred narratives, and artistic productions. She introduces a wide range of such figures, including supernatural women like the Valkyries ofNorse legend, who transport men to immortality; winged deities like the Greek goddesses Iris and Nike; figures of ...

Dreaming in the Lotus
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 322

Dreaming in the Lotus

Surveys the complex history of Buddhist dream experience and analysis.

Encyclopedia of Women and World Religion: L-Y. Index
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 600

Encyclopedia of Women and World Religion: L-Y. Index

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1999
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Women of Wisdom
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

Women of Wisdom

An inspiring collection of writings from women visionaries and mystics from an array of religious faiths and traditions.

Buddhism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 134

Buddhism

Explores the history and origins, basic tenets and beliefs, organizations, traditions, customs, rites, societal influences, and modern-day impact of Roman Catholicism, Islam, Protestantism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism.

Richard Francis Burton
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 86

Richard Francis Burton

"An examination of the life and journeys of the famed world explorer"--Provided by publisher.

Women who Fly
  • Language: en

Women who Fly

Flying women are a common motif in the world's myths and religions. Not necessarily winged, these women elicit reactions of fear, fascination, and ambivalence, and in so doing reveal much about the perceptions of female power and sexuality through the ages. This work systematically chronicles the figure of the flying woman in myth, literature, and art.

Invoking Lakshmi
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 299

Invoking Lakshmi

A multi-faceted portrait of Lakshmi, Hindu goddess of wealth and prosperity. Includes translations of verses used to invoke this goddess.

An Anthology of Sacred Texts by and about Women
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 486

An Anthology of Sacred Texts by and about Women

"In 1895 Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her "Revising Committee" produced The Woman's Bible, a commentary on passages in the Bible that "do not exalt or dignify women" and "those also in which women are prominent by exclusion." The women's movement has come a long way in the last hundred years, but so too have our knowledge and appreciation of religions other than Judaism and Christianity." "Serinity Young's Anthology of Sacred Texts by and about Women is the first comprehensive comparative sourcebook on women and religion. It makes available readings by and about women from the primary texts of the world's religions. The religions treated include not only the "big seven," Judaism, Christianity,...