The ugly goddess: Reflections on the role of violent images in religious experience

History of Religions

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 114-141

  Luhrmann, T M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 61249417197     PISSN: 00182710     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/463671     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. T. M. Luhrmann, Persuasions of the Witch's Craft (Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1989).
2. Margaret Ahci Murray, Witch-Cult in Western Europe (1921; Oxford: Clarendon, 1967).
3. Ronald Hutton, The Triumph of the Moon (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), p. 199.
4. Gerald Gardner, Witchcraft Today (1954; reprint, New York: Magickal Childe, 1982)
5. The Meaning of Witchcraft (1959; reprint, New York: Magickal Childe, 1982).
6. Again, see Hutton.
7. Margot Adler's Drawing Down the Moon (New York: Viking, 1986) is an excellent account of the different kinds of magical groups and their commitments.
8. Charlene Spretnak, ed. , The Politics of Women's Spirituality (Garden City, N. J. : Double-day, 1982), p. xxi.
9. Starhawk, The Spiral Dance (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1979), pp. 78-79.
10. See, e. g. , Sylvia Brinton Perera, Descent to the Goddess (Toronto: Inner City Books, 1981)
11. Barbara Walker, The Crone (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1985)
12. Caitlin Matthews, Sophia: Goddess of Wisdom (London: Mandala, 1991)
13. China Galland, Longing for Darkness (New York: Viking, 1990)
14. and Starhawk, Dreaming the Dark (Boston: Beacon, 1982).
15. Other books frequently mentioned include J. J. Bachofen, Myth, Religion and Motherright (Princeton, N. J. : Princeton University Press, 1967)
16. Mary Daly, Beyond God the Father (Boston: Beacon, 1973), Gyn/Ecology (Boston: Beacon, 1978)
17. Emst Neumann, The Great Mother (Princeton, N. J. : Princeton University Press, 1955)
18. and Monica Sjoo, The Great Cosmic Mother (San Francisco: Harper, 1987).
19. Dion Fortune, Moon Magic (London: Wyndham, 1976), p. 42.
20. Perera, pp. 9-10.
21. I lived for fifteen months in London in 1983-84. I saw Frances at least once a week, usually more frequently, and I kept contact with her when I returned to Cambridge. Much of the quoted conversation arose from two occasions in 1989, when, first I, and then Frances, cooked meals for three of us: Frances, Rose, and myself.
22. From an unpublished manuscript, "The Weaving Goddess: A Joumey in Poetic Prose to My Inner Circle" (1989).
23. Nora Hall, The Moon and the Virgin (New York: Harper & Row), p. 19.
24. Reis, "The Dark Goddess," Women of Power ("Revisioning the Dark") 8 (1988), p. 24.
25. Claude Lévi-Strauss, "The Efficacy of Symbols" in his Structural Anthropology (Garden City, N. J. : Doubleday, 1967)
26. Jerome Frank, Persuasion and Healing (New York: Schocken, 1963).
27. Lévi-Strauss, p. xxx.
28. Gananath Obeyesekere, The Work of Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990).
29. Rene Girard, Violence and the Sacred (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977).
30. Rudolf Otto, The Idea of the Holy (London: Oxford University Press, 1923), p. 5.
31. Jacques Lacan, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis (New York: Norton, 1973), p. 206.
32. See Nancy Chodorow, The Reproduction of Mothering (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979), p. 79.
33. Melanie Klein, Envy and Gratitude and Other Works (New York: Dell, 1975), p. 180.
34. Jessica Benjamin, The Bonds of Love (New York: Pantheon, 1988).
35. Soren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling; Sickness unto Death (Garden City, N. J. : Doubleday, 1941), p. 35.
36. See also Carol Delaney, Abraham on Trial (Princeton, N. J. : Princeton University Press, 1998).
37. Kierkegaard, p. 64.
38. Jack Miles, God: A Biography (New York: Vintage, 1995).
39. Harold Kushner, When Bad Things Happen to Good People (New York: Schocken, 1981).
40. B. S. Miller, trans. , Bhagavad-Gita (New York: Bantam, 1986); cited here and hereafter in the text as Gita.
41. Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty, The Origins of Evil in Hindu Mythology (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976).
42. Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace (1952; London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1963), p. 65.
43. Aristotle, Aristotle's Poetics, trans. F. Ferguson (New York: Hill & Wang, 1961); cited hereafter in the text as Poetics.
44. Par Lagerkvist, The Sibyl (New York: Vintage, 1958).