Gaia Pammetor, Maternal Love and the Construction of Female Divinity in Contemporary Paganism

This paper argues that diverging representations of Gaia can be found on Pagan websites. She is portrayed as divine ‘Mother of all’ the cosmos, as (divine) living being who feeds and contains us, and as loving Mother Goddess. Each representation is rooted, respectively, in ancient Greek myths, in Ec...

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Главный автор: Bittarello, Beatrice (Автор)
Формат: Электронный ресурс Статья
Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: Equinox Publ. 2010
В: Journal for the academic study of religion
Год: 2010, Том: 23, Выпуск: 2, Страницы: 191-207
Другие ключевые слова:B Gaia
B Neopaganism
B Ecofeminism
B Gaia Theory
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Итог:This paper argues that diverging representations of Gaia can be found on Pagan websites. She is portrayed as divine ‘Mother of all’ the cosmos, as (divine) living being who feeds and contains us, and as loving Mother Goddess. Each representation is rooted, respectively, in ancient Greek myths, in Ecofeminist elaborations of Lovelock’s Gaia Theory, and in certain Christian representations of the Virgin Mary’s motherhood. This paper shows how the issue of the representation of Gaia is relevant to broader issues of contemporary representation of female divinity.
ISSN:2047-7058
Второстепенные работы:Enthalten in: Journal for the academic study of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1558/arsr.v23i2.191