A Feminist Companion to Mariology

From: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly | Date: July 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

AMY-JILL LEVINE with MARIA MAYO ROBBINS (eds.), A Feminist Companion to Mariology (Cleveland: Pilgrim, 2005). Pp. x + 225. Paper $21.

For a Jewish or a Protestant scholar, feminist or not, approaching the subject of Mary is more than a little daunting because the terrain is so unfamiliar. The same subject is similarly daunting for a Catholic scholar, perhaps, because the image of Mary has been so painted (and tainted) with positive and negative tones of redemption and submission that even to write seriously in a feminist vein on the subject of Mary as an iconic figure in the tangled history ...

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