This thesis asks the question whether and to what extent Osun in the New World is the same as the Osun of the Old World. My argument is that the selected Yoruba myths studied in this dissertation prove that Osun in the Old and the New Worlds is the same divinity as the Osun of t…
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The object of Universal Goddess on the Via Sacra: The Evolving Image of Artemis Ephesia , is first and foremost to understand the nature of religious practices associated with Artemis Ephesia, using the most recent archaeological materials in this pursuit. This study begins by i…
This research is an exploration into western feminine cultural shadow through the interviews of eight women from Belgium, France, Holland, Ireland, Poland, Turkey, and United States, who volunteered for espionage work such as couriers, weapons specialists, and saboteurs in the S…
This dissertation investigates Iron II Judean pillar figurines and their place in Judean ritual. First, the project identifies major trends in the interpretation of figurines and evaluates them using ancient Near Easter texts, archaeological context, the Hebrew Bible, and iconog…
This thesis investigates the iconography used by specific groups of modern Pagan women in the contemporary United States to represent the feminine divine, the meanings attributed to them by women and by broader communities, and the values these images and meanings reinforce. Thr…
In this dissertation I bring into conversation the different understandings of the origin of religion put forward by Jane Harrison in her Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion, with those of foundational figures in the simultaneously emerging field of depth psychology: Sigm…
In the current Western patriarchal milieu, there are few models of how motherhood can foster psychological and spiritual wholeness in a woman. Therefore, this thesis aims to explore how the stage of motherhood can birth psychological and spiritual wholeness in a woman. This thes…
In the Caribbean nation of Cuba, two historical religions have influenced the social and cultural identity of its people: Roman Catholicism and West African Yoruba Santería. Through the Catholic image of Our Lady of Charity or Nuestra Señora de la Caridad, a local Virgin Mary sy…