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Article: Hail Mary: The Struggle for Ultimate Womanhood in Catholicism
- Article from:
- The Australian Journal of Anthropology
- Article date:
- January 1, 1997
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Maurice Hamington. Hail Mary: The Struggle for Ultimate Womanhood in Catholicism. New York and London: Routledge, 1995. x, 216pp., illust., bibliog., index. UK37.50 (Hc.), ISBN 0-415-91303-9; UK12.99 (Pb.), ISBN 0-415-91303-7. Michael Allen
University of Sydney
As an anthropologist currently engaged in the study of Marian visionary cults in Ireland, I readily accepted the opportunity to read a book, seemingly of a scholarly kind, entitled Hail Mary. Over the past few years I have read numerous books with similar titles and with only a few exceptions have found myself drowning in a sea of devotional hagiography. Important though hagiography may be for the student of religion I began to ...