Mary Magdalene from the New Testament to the New Age and Beyond.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Figures -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Earliest Magdalene: Varied Portrayals in EarlyGospel Narratives -- Chapter 2 The Apocryphal Magdalene: Expanding andLimiting Her Importance -- Chapter 3 The Gnostic Magdalene: Mary as Disciple andRevealer -- Chapter 3 The Gnostic Magdalene: Mary as Disciple and Revealer -- Chapter 4 The Vine and the Net-Caster: Mandaean and Manichaean Transformations of Mary Magdalene -- Chapter 5 The Patristic Magdalene: Symbol for the Church and Witness to the Resurrection -- Chapter 6 A Whore from Bethany? A Note on Mary Magdalene in Early Non-Christian Sources -- Chapter 7 The Magdalene Yesterday and Today in the Gospel of Jesus's Wife -- Chapter 8 The Cult of Mary Magdalene in the Medieval West -- Chapter 9 The Magdalene of Medieval Hagiography -- Chapter 10 Suspended between Sacred and Profane: the Iconography of Mary Magdalene from Its Origins to the Fifteenth Century -- Chapter 11 The Divided Magdalene: the Three Magdalenes Debate (1517-1519): between Humanism andEnlightenment -- Chapter 12 The Uncontainable Sexuality of a Penitent Woman: the Magdalene between Baroque and Contemporary Art -- Chapter 13 The Magdalene of Contemporary Biblical Scholarship -- Chapter 14 From Disciple to Deviant: the Magdalene in Contemporary Popular Film -- Chapter 15 The Magdalene of Internet: New Age, Goddess, and Nature Spiritualities -- Chapter 16 Wife, Queen, Goddess: Mary Magdalene and the New Religious-Spiritual Movements (19th-21st Centuries) -- Chapter 17 From Galilee to India: There Is Something about Mary (Magdalene) -- Chapter 18 Why the Church Needs a Prostitutes' Saint -- Chapter 19 The Marys in the Contemporary Liturgical Practice of the Mary Magdalene (the) Apostle Catholic Community -- Chapter 20 The Legionaries of Mary Magdalene?.

Index of Premodern Sources -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Places.

Twenty scholars from different venues and backgrounds walk through history, arts, literature, and faiths to offer the readers a fresh view on how the figure of the Woman of Magdala was created, adapted, transformed, reviled, and exalted through the centuries.

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