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The lonely goddess : the lack of benevolent female relationships in Hindu and Shi'ite mythology
Bibliography: leaves 105-116.
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| author | Isaacs-Martin, Wendy Jane |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/10887 The lonely goddess : the lack of benevolent female relationships in Hindu and Shi'ite mythology Isaacs-Martin, Wendy Jane Tobler, Judith Religious Studies Bibliography: leaves 105-116. This minor dissertation engages a theoretical feminist discourse to identify the lack of benevolent female relationships in the development of religious mythology. The study explores two diverse belief systems, Hinduism and Shi'ism, in order to demonstrate that the feminine is reduced to a subservient and controlled creative force across different religious and cultural systems. The study further develops the roles of the woman in the religious tradition, as mother and nurse to the hero and the guardian of male symbols and language. I have drawn on the feminist critical analysis of Luce Irigaray, and on classical Hindu and Shi'ite myth, to discern ways in which the femaile has been alienated from patriarchal social reality, due to the male-defined construction of the sacred, divine and submissive woman. 2015-01-01T12:51:58Z 2015-01-01T12:51:58Z 2003 Master Thesis Masters MSocSc http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10887 eng application/pdf Department of Religious Studies Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
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| title | The lonely goddess : the lack of benevolent female relationships in Hindu and Shi'ite mythology |
| title_full | The lonely goddess : the lack of benevolent female relationships in Hindu and Shi'ite mythology |
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| title_short | The lonely goddess : the lack of benevolent female relationships in Hindu and Shi'ite mythology |
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