The Black Madonna In Latin America And Europe
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Author | : Malgorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780826341037 |
This richly illustrated study examines how the Black Madonna has become a symbol of national identity, resistance against oppression, and empowerment for the female populations of such diverse cultures as Poland and Cuba.
Author | : Małgorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
A cultural icon, the Black Madonna is a blend of the Virgin Mary and ancient mother-goddesses from Eurasian, Native American and African cultures. This work examines the dark mother archetype and explores the Black Madonna's functions in the varied cultures of Poland, Mexico and the American southwest, Brazil, and Cuba.
Author | : Fred Gustafson |
Publisher | : Daimon |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 3856307206 |
History and description of the Black Madonna of Einsiedeln, Switzerland.
Author | : Ean Begg |
Publisher | : Chiron Publications |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2017-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1630514411 |
Author | : Małgorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2015-09-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1137535008 |
In this provocative book, Małgorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba examines untamed feminine divinities from around the world. Although distant geographically, these divine figures are surprisingly similar-representing concepts of liminality, outsiderhood, and structural inferiority, embodied in the divine feminine. These strong, independent, unrestrained figures are connected to the periphery and to magical powers, including power over sexuality, transformation, and death. Oleszkiewicz-Peralba offers a study of the origin and worship of four feminine deities across cultures and continents: the Slavic Baba Yaga, the Hindu Kālī, the Brazilian Pombagira, and the Mexican Santa Muerte. Although these divinities have often been marginalized through dismissal, demonization, and dulcification, they continue to be extremely attractive, as they empower their devotees confronting them with the ultimate reality of transience and death. Oleszkiewicz-Peralba examines how these sacred icons have been adapted and transformed across time and place.
Author | : Nic Phillips |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2022-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781905297825 |
An exploration of the phenomenon of Black Madonnas; combining personal experience with scholarly research spanning Europe, Brazil, Africa, the Americas, and the vodou culture of Haiti, complemented by illustrations created on the journey.
Author | : China Galland |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007-06-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0140195661 |
Read China Galland's posts on the Penguin Blog With this book, China Galland brought increased attention to the spiritual traditions of the Black Madonna and other cross-cultural expressions of the feminine divine. The popularity of recent works by authors like Sue Monk Kidd and Kathleen Norris have only increased readers’ fascination. Now with a new introduction by the author, Longing for Darkness explores Galland’s spellbinding and deeply personal journey from New Mexico through Nepal, India, Switzerland, France, the former Yugoslavia, and Poland—places where such figures as Tara, the female Buddha of the Tibetan tradition, and the Black Madonna are venerated today.
Author | : Stephanie Georgieff |
Publisher | : Outskirts Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2016-02-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781478721758 |
The Black Madonna, Mysterious Soul Companion. . . Beginning as a research project for a graduate class in Spirituality and Culture, The Black Madonna and all that she represents became a mystical guide for Georgieff on her intimate journey of the human soul. Through travels to some of the world's most famous Black Madonna Shrines, interviews with scholars, scientists, clergy and artists, exploration of the historic evolution of human consciousness and deep reflections on the basic purpose of the spiritual path, Georgieff weaves an intriguing story of our cosmic origins, our difficult present and our hopeful future as a human family.
Author | : Nic Phillips |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2021-02-26 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781905297832 |
In this exceptional study of the Black Madonna, author, scholar and artist Nic Phillips leads you on a pilgrimage through the history, myth, practice and modern relevance of her many images around the world and asks astute questions about how they have been interpreted and misinterpreted over the centuries. As though restoring the artefacts themselves, he gently strips away layers of supposition and imposition to show the truth beneath, but also looks to the value of the later meanings and significance accrued by these sacred portrayals of a Black Virgin. Starting with one of the most famous of her statues in Chartres, France and then casting light on the less explored phenomenon of syncretic worship within the African and Indian diasporas, we learn how the mysterious Black Madonna became equated with Dark Goddesses such as Kali, the primal fury of the Vodou Lwa Ezili Dantor, and Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico. Taking us into an in-depth exploration of a figure who has been interpreted as both Mary Magdalene and various Orisha, this expertly-researched book shows what a powerful figure this Dark Mother remains throughout the world as a symbol of the strength and liberation of the oppressed. Whilst many existing books on this subject have focused mainly on myths which have grown within the European Grail tradition, Breaking Chains embraces both a personal journey and an objective approach to finding the real power behind the Black Madonna, not only mythically and historically but politically. In a fascinating and accessible work, including his own extraordinary paintings inspired by statues and stories around the world, Nic Phillips shows that the Black Madonna is the focus for a living, breathing, evolving movement, and is perhaps even more relevant today than ever before.
Author | : Tataya Mato |
Publisher | : Open Court Publishing |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780812692495 |
This is the story, in words and pictures, of one woman's quest for wholeness and release from despair. Fighting the scars of abuse and a war-ravaged childhood, Tataya Mato looked inward - to her dreams and active imaginations, and to her drawings, which increasingly became pervaded by the luminous presence of the divine feminine figure, the Black Madonna. Long a folk image in Europe, the Black Madonna archetype has recently begun to appear in the dreams and other unconscious material of hundreds of North American women and men. Some Jungian thinkers have identified this striking phenomenon with the emergence of a latent feminine force, demanding conscious recognition. The collective dream pattern, so often in advance of consciousness, here asserts a new caring relationship to the Earth and all its creatures. The Black Madonna Within includes 191 of Tataya's drawings, offering insight and healing through their development from the earliest and most naive images to their more matureartistic form. The drawings are accompanied by the artist-author's poignant narrative text.