Date of Award
11-21-2008
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Religious Studies
First Advisor
Dr. Timothy Renick - Chair
Second Advisor
Dr. Louis Ruprecht
Third Advisor
Dr. Kathryn McClymond
Abstract
In Pure Lust, Mary Daly claims that the Virgin Mary is an “image of total subservience, the dethroned and sapped Goddess who was converted into a vessel.” Daly perceives Mary primarily through Christian scripture and other orthodox texts, ignoring her role as part of a religion lived and experienced outside of Church doctrine and dogma. This thesis explores how Mary is perceived and utilized by the laity, as opposed to the theological Mary, by specifically looking at how the Virgin Mary is imagined and experienced at the Our Lady of Ephesus Shrine in Western Turkey. Utilizing Robert Orsi’s lived religion approach and ethnographic research, this examination of the Virgin Mary will test Daly’s theologically based theory.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/1062081
Recommended Citation
Abraham, Heather, "The Shrine of our Lady of Ephesus: A Study of the Personas of Mary as Lived Religion." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2008.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/1062081