caa a22 4500 386394474 CHVBK 20180307112133.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1989 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S036096690003989X doi S036096690003989X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S036096690003989X Sheridan Daniel P. Loyola University, New Orleans Maternal Affection for a Divine Son: A Spirituality of the Bhāgavata Purāṇa [Elektronische Daten] [Daniel P. Sheridan] Love for God as an actual concrete activity of a human being is sometimes obscured in contemporary American Christian culture. This essay studies the role of maternal affection for the divine child Kṛṣṇa, humanly embodied as a male child, in order to serve as a cross-cultural catalyst for the traditions of Christian love for Christ. The focus is the tenth-century Hindu Vaiṣṇava text, the Bhāgavata Purāṇa. Vaiṣṇavas promote the experience of loving God through imaginative participation in narratives of Kṛṣṇa's loves and by identification with human women who loved him, particularly his mothers. They are the exemplars of a maternal love for a divine child. This imaginative participation and identification is open to both men and women. This study illustrates the roles of gender, narrative, and imagination in the experience of loving God with one's whole heart, soul, and might. Copyright © The College Theology Society 1989 Horizons Cambridge University Press 16/1(1989), 65-78 0360-9669 16:1<65 1989 16 HOR https://doi.org/10.1017/S036096690003989X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S036096690003989X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Sheridan Daniel P. Loyola University, New Orleans NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Horizons Cambridge University Press 16/1(1989), 65-78 0360-9669 16:1<65 1989 16 HOR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge