Name: Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine (Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
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Author: Campbell, Joseph ; Rossi, Safron
ISBN: 9781608681822

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Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine (Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Joseph Campbell

Illustrated by

Safron Rossi

Publisher

New World Library

Year

2013

Language

English

Pages

432

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

21.8 x 14.0 x 3.3 cm

Weight

0.52 kg.

ISBN13

9781608681822

Synopsis "Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine (Collected Works of Joseph Campbell) "

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.

Joseph Campbell

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(New York, 1904 - Honolulu, 1987) was, along with Mircea Eliade, the most important mythologist of the second half of the 20th century. Professor Emeritus of Literature at Sarah Lawrence College in New York, he was a renowned writer and lecturer on mythology and comparative religions.

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