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Finding the Maternal Divine in Contextual Realities of Motherhood

Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, 2023
Abstract: The predominance of patriarchy in Christian communities has supported paternal metaphors over maternal analogues for describing God's action in the world. Feminist theologians have long advocated for the inclusion of women's experiences in God-talk, but navigating how to incorporate maternal imagery for the divine presents numerous pitfalls.
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‘Bharat Mata’ and ‘Ma Victoria’: Forms of Divine Motherhood in Colonial Bengal

Indian Historical Review, 2020
This article attempts to explore the cult of the ‘Bharat Mata’ that was born out of the patriotic fervour of Indian nationalist leaders who transformed their nationalist passion into an image of the nation as mother, and the widely promoted idea of Queen Victoria as a mother to her subjects in the nineteenth-century Bengal.
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Isis and Demeter: Symbols of Divine Motherhood

Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, 1991
The Greek historian Herodotus, in his eagerness to make highly inclusive comparisons between Egyptian and Greek religion, emphasized the fact that the Egyptian Isis could be identified with the Greek Demeter, and that the rituals of the latter, the Thesmophoria,1 had at an early stage been brought to Greece from Egypt.2 An identification between Isis ...
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Julia Domna and her Divine Motherhood: A Re-examination of the Evidence from Imperial Coins

Classical Journal, 2019
The aim of this paper is to examine chronologically the imperial types advertising the maternity of Julia Domna. Several coins issued during the first years of Septimius Severus' reign celebrated the procreative capacities of the Augusta by either portraying her together with Caracalla and Geta or connecting her to representations of deities with ...
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