Divine Mother, Blessed Mother: Hindu Goddesses and the Virgin Mary
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The Virgin Mary has long been the object of both devotional and scholarly interest, and recent years have seen a proliferation of studies on Hindu goddess-worship traditions. Despite the parallels between the two, however, no one has yet undertaken a book-length comparison of these traditions. In Divine Mother, Blessed Mother, Francis Clooney offers the first extended comparative study of Hindu goddesses and the Virgin Mary. Clooney is almost unique in the field of Hindu studies as a Christian theologian with the linguistic and philosophical expertise necessary to produce sophisticated comparative analyses. Building on his previous work in comparative theology, he sheds new light not only on these individual traditions but also on the nature of gender and the divine.
1Sri, Devi, Apirami, and Mary : who and why32Sri in the Sri Guna Ratna Kosa : divine equality, divine pleasure; in light of the Akathistos1093Devi in the Saundarya Lahari : from bliss to beauty; in light of the Stabat Mater1534Apirami in the Apirami Antati : finding her within; in light of the Mataracamman Antati1875Three Hindu goddesses, Mary, and reading ahead219
