Black Madonnas: Feminism, Religion, and Politics in Italy |
 | Author: Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum
Publisher: Northeastern University Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 74461
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 273
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 6.5 x 1.3
ISBN: 1555531563
Dewey Decimal Number: 232.91
EAN: 9781555531560
ASIN: 1555531563
Publication Date: June 1993
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In the 1993 edition, I considered black madonnas a metaphor for a memory of the time when the earth was believed to be the body of woman and all creatures were equal, a memory transmitted in vernacular traditions of earth-bonded cultures, historically expressed in cultural and political resistance, and glimpsed today in movements aiming for transformation. Since then my understanding of black madonnas has been deepened by geneticists finding that the origin of modern humans is Africa, that primordial migrations from Africa carried a belief in a sacred dark woman to all continents. Black madonnas may be considered a metaphor for healing millennial divisions of gender and race in concerted world movements for justice.
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