Type of Document Master's Thesis Author Abraham, Heather Author's Email Address habraham2@student.gsu.edu URN etd-11202008-192541 Title THE SHRINE OF OUR LADY OF EPHESUS: A STUDY OF THE PERSONAS OF MARY AS LIVED RELIGION Degree Master of Arts Department Religious Studies Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Dr. Timothy Renick Committee Chair Dr. Kathryn McClymond Committee Member Dr. Louis Ruprecht Committee Member Keywords
- Religious Studies
- Georgia State University
- Virgin Mary
- Our Lady of Ephesus
- Robert Orsi
- Lived religion
- Mary Daly
- Meryem Ana
- Marian Shrines.
Date of Defense 2008-11-14 Availability unrestricted 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.Files
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