Encountering The Divine Mother In Hindu And Christian Hymns

2010 ◽  
pp. 235-247
Keyword(s):  
Divine Mother

‘Two Voices Heard in Castile’: Rachel and Mary Weep for Their Children in the Age of the Zohar

2017 ◽  
pp. 225-254
Author(s):  
Sharon Koren
Keyword(s):  
Christian Theology ◽  
Jewish Culture ◽  
Sacred Texts ◽  
Cultural Transformations ◽  
Cosmic Scale ◽  
Christian Culture ◽  
Mystical Literature ◽  
Divine Mother

This chapter talks about Jewish culture in Castile from the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries and returns to two early mothers. It examines Rachel and Mary's lives and their respective transformations in Jewish mystical literature and Christian theology. The chapters examines the cultural transformations and metamorphosis of Rachel into a symbol of the Shekhinah as an attempt to cope with the particular cultural situation of exile within the dominant Christian culture of the time. It also explains how Rachel becomes the divine mother suffering for her children in exile. The chapter illustrates the theological transformation of Rachel that enabled Jews to respond to the Christian devotion to Mary on a cosmic scale in order to grapple with their exilic condition. It recounts stories of Rachel and Mary in the sacred texts of the Jewish and Christian faiths which have inspired devotees, religious scholars, and historians for thousands of years.

The Image of Woman as Motherhood in Rabindranath Tagore’s Gora

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (9) ◽  
pp. 1841
Author(s):  
Negin Karami ◽  
Sohila Faghfori ◽  
Esmaeil Zohdi
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Central Character ◽  
Rabindranath Tagore ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Women's Role ◽  
Divine Mother

This article evaluates the image of a traditional Indian motherhood in Gora written by Rabindranath Tagore. In Gora, Tagore portrays a divine mother and a goddess as well as the conception of the central character in relation to development of social, political, religious, and economical decisions of male. Yet, he insists that woman has the important roles in man’s life and she should make the best identity for her own life in the family or in the larger society. However, This essay can be read as the ideology of a feminine ideal that compares nature of India motherland with mother of everyone in all aspects of life but it examines distinctions between Tagore and Wollstonecraft concerning women’s role as mothers within the family because as a feminist she argues that the rights of women are demanded within the republic. In order to explore Rabindranath Tagore’s treatment of motherhood, Virginia Woolf’s perspective will be analyzed in respect to her feministic approach. So, disregarding how Tagore demonstrates the idea of words, Woolf realizes ideal of motherhood was essential in women’s life and develops a female atmosphere in which women portray their status in the real world and fight against their patriarchal mother.

From his Mother Nūr al-Anṣāriyya to his Šayḫ Fāṭima bt. Ibn al-Muṯannā: Important Female Figures around Muḥyī l-Dīn b. al-ʿArabī (d. 638/1240)

Arabica ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 59 (6) ◽  
pp. 685-708
Author(s):  
Hülya Küçük
Keyword(s):  
Country Of Origin ◽  
Female Figures ◽  
Divine Mother

Abstract Muḥyī l-Dīn b. al-ʿArabī (d. 638/1240), well known for his favorable views on woman, is of the idea that there is a very strict love-bond in the God, man and woman trinity: God created Adam/man in His own image, and created woman on Adam/man’s image. Thus, God is the waṭan (country of origin) of Adam, and in turn Adam is the waṭan of woman. His mother Nūr al-Anṣāriyya, his wife Maryam and his daughter Zaynab should be regarded as the immediate important women around him. As he believed that man and woman were equal in everything, he followed both female and male šayḫs. Ibn al-ʿArabī’s esteemed female šayḫs include Fāṭima bt. Ibn al-Muṯannā, about whom he used the term “Divine mother;” Šams Umm al-Fuqarāʾ, and Faḫr al-Nisāʾ bt. Rustam, a scholar and the šayḫ of Ḥiğāz.

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