Brian Griffith

A Galaxy of Immortal Women: The Yin Side of Chinese Civilization

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Produktbeschreibung

The goddess tradition remakes China and the world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Minds Eye Publications
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 188mm x 137mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9781935259145
• ISBN-10: 1935259148
• Artikelnr.: 34683195

Autorenporträt

Brian Griffith grew up in Texas, studied history at the University of Alberta, and now lives just outside of Toronto, Ontario. He is an independent historian who examines how cultural history influences our lives, and how collective experience offers insights for our future. He is the author of The Gardens of Their Dreams: Desertification and Culture in World History, Different Visions of Love: Partnership and Dominator Values in Christian History, Correcting Jesus: 2000 Years of Changing the Story, and A Galaxy of Immortal Women: The Yin Side of Chinese Civilization.

Inhaltsangabe

1. How a Texan Man Became an Admirer of Chinese Goddesses
2. The Yin Side of Chinese Civilization
3. The Legendary Age of the Goddess
4. The Original Partnership of Sexes
5. Deities of Living Lands and Seas
6. Goddess Realms of Prehistoric China
7. Confucian Myths of the Golden Age
8. The Fall of Chinese Women
9. The Goddesses' Outlaws
10. Women's Powers in Popular Daoism
11. How Women Changed Buddhism in China and Tibet
12. Confucianism as a Cult of "Mamas' Boys"
13. Family Values in the Warlord Age, and Now
14. Goddess Religions of the Modern and Planetary Age