The American Gods novel isn’t teeming with three-dimensional female characters. Female characters are there — in the form of Shadow’s wife Laura Moon or goddess Bilquis, for example — but they are ...

As this premiere season of American Gods has progressed, it’s been exciting to see how the television adaptation expands the role of the book’s many female characters—and not just because it means ...

Dan Brown’s “Da Vinci Code,” which opened as a movie on May 19, is just the latest challenge to women’s lowly status in religion. The female place in sacred history, according to a group of ...

From left: A painting of Durga slaying Mahishasura, by Anant Shivaji Desai, published by the Raja Ravi Varma Press, an artist puts finishing touches to an idol of Durga in Kolkata, and a lithograph of ...

In certain social circles, JJ McKay has been called “the Perle Mesta of Seattle.” Mesta was a celebrated society hostess known for bringing artists, business leaders and political luminaries together ...

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Egyptologist Wilkinson presents a clear, comprehensive and beautifully illustrated (in color and b&w) guide to the bewildering array of Egyptian deities--a complete catalogue of gods and goddesses ...

The US is celebrating the first depiction of an Asian American on a quarter-dollar coin with Hollywood star Anna May Wong. Yet women have featured on coins for millennia. Anna May Wong, who was the ...

The gamut of gods. That's the big, bad problem of our times. People lose their marbles over this god or that god. There are little gods and big gods, and everybody's got one. Some people's god is a ...

Anna May Wong, who was the first Chinese American film star in Hollywood, becomes the first Asian American to be featured on US currency. Her face is to appear on 25-cent coins starting October 24.