Empress and Handmaid: On Nature and Gender in the Cult of the Virgin Mary.(Brief Article)

Commonweal | January 11, 2002| | Copyright 
 
Empress and Handmaid: 
On Nature and Gender in the 
Cult of the Virgin Mary 
Sarah Jane Boss 
Continuum, $27.95, 264 pp.

One of the characteristics of Catholicism is a lively devotion to Our Lady. (Calvin, to put it mildly, had little tolerance for such devotion, and Cottret has some good pages in which Genevans are hauled before the Council charged with speaking of Mary as a "saintly woman" or praying the Ave Maria.) Recently, there has been a spate of books studying everything from Marian apparitions to the cult of Mary as seen by feminists. In Empress and ...

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