Campbell Joseph - Goddesses Mysteries Of The Feminine Divine - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: Joseph Campbell brought mythology to a mass audience. His bestselling books including The Power of Myth and The Hero with a Thousand Faces are the rare blockbusters that are also scholarly classics. While Campbell's work reached wide and deep as he covered the world's great mythological traditions he never wrote a book on goddesses in world mythology. He did however have much to say on the subject. Between 1972 and 1986 he gave over twenty lectures and workshops on goddesses exploring the figures functions symbols and themes of the feminine divine following them through their transformations across cultures and epochs. In this provocative volume editor Safron Rossi a goddess studies scholar professor of mythology and curator of collections at Opus Archives which holds the Joseph Campbell archival manuscript collection and personal library collects these lectures for the first time. In them Campbell traces the evolution of the feminine divine from one Great Goddess to many from Neolithic Old Europe to the Renaissance. He sheds new light on classical motifs and reveals how the feminine divine symbolizes the archetypal energies of transformation initiation and inspiration.
Title: Goddesses Mysteries Of The Feminine Divine
Author(s): Campbell Joseph
Publisher: New World Library
Barcode: 9781608681822
Pages: 432 Pages, Black And White Illustrations Throughout
Publication Date: 12/10/2013
Category: Theology