Contents

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Introduction
Chris Maunder

Part I Foundations

1. Mary and the Gospel Narratives
Chris Maunder

2. Mary in the Apocrypha
Tony Burke

3. Mary in Patristics
Andrew Louth

4. The Virgin as Theotokos at Ephesus (AD 431) and Earlier
Richard Price

5. Marian Typological and Symbolic Imagery in Patristic Christianity
Brian K. Reynolds

6. Mary in Islam
Zeki Saritoprak

Part II Mary in the Eastern Churches

7. Mary in the Hymnody of the East
John Anthony McGuckin

8. The Virgin Mary Theotokos in Orthodox Piety
Christine Chaillot

9. Mary as Intercessor in Byzantine Theology
Bronwen Neil

10. Byzantine Festal Homilies on the Virgin Mary
Mary B. Cunningham

11. The Doctrine of the Theotokos in Gregorios Palamas
Christiaan Kappes

12. The Russian Spiritual Verses on the Mother of God
Richard Price

13. The Mother of God in Finnish Orthodox Women’s Lived Piety: Converted and Skolt Sámi Voices
Elina Vuola

14. Marian Devotion in the Contemporary Eastern Mediterranean
Nurit Stadler

15. Mary in Modern Orthodox Theology
Andrew Louth

Part III Marian Themes in Western Christianity

16. The Virgin Mary in the Hymns of the Catholic Church
Thomas A. Thompson

17. The Papacy and Maria Regina Imagery in Roman Churches between the Sixth and Twelfth Centuries
Eileen Rubery

18. Mary and Grace
Matthew Levering

19. Mary in the Work of Redemption
Robert Fastiggi

20. The Patristic and Medieval Roots of Mary’s Humility
Brian K. Reynolds

21. Mary in Medieval Prayer: The Hours of the Virgin
Rachel Fulton Brown

22. The Idea of Mary as ‘Sister’ in Carmelite Mariology
Kevin J. Alban

23. Mary in Medieval Hispanic Literatures
Lesley K. Twomey

24. The Annunciation from Luke to the Enlightenment: A Cultural History
Gary Waller

Part IV Mary in the West from the Reformation

25. Mary, Gender, and the English Reformation
Stephen Bates

26. Chasing the Lady: Revealing, Reforming, and Restoring the Virgin Mary in the Eucharist during the English Reformations and beyond
Paul Williams

27. Mary in Luther and the Lutheran Reformation
Beth Kreitzer

28. Mariology in the Counter Reformation
Robert Fastiggi

29. Mary and Inculturation in Mexico and India
Patrizia Granziera

30. Original Holiness: The Blessed Virgin Mary in the Catholic Theology of Nineteenth-Century Europe
Sarah Jane Boss

31. Mary as Cultural Symbol in the Nineteenth Century
Carol Engelhardt Herringer

32. Mariology at and after the Second Vatican Council
Arthur B. Calkins

33. Mary and Modernity
Charlene Spretnak

34. Symbol, Vision, Mother: Mary in Film
Catherine O’Brien

Part V Marian Pilgrimage, Apparitions, and Miracles

35. Medieval Marian Pilgrimage in the Catholic West
James Bugslag

36. Marian Piety and Gender: Marian Devotion and the ‘Feminization’ of Religion
Tine Van Osselaer

37. Mary and Migrant Communities: Pilgrimage and African Mary-craft in Europe
Catrien Notermans

38. Mary in a Mobile World: The Anthropology of a Moving Symbol
Simon Coleman

39. Mary and Multi-Faith Pilgrimages
Dionigi Albera

40. Mary and Modern Catholic Material Culture
Deirdre de la Cruz

41. Marian Apocalypticism
Daniel Wojcik

42. The Global Network of Deviant Revelatory Marian Movements
Peter Jan Margry

Index

Index of Biblical and Apocryphal Texts