Is The Goddess A Feminist

Author : Alf Hiltebeitel
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814736197
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Is the Goddess a Feminist? written by Alf Hiltebeitel and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2000-11 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American and Indian scholars of religion, anthropology, women's studies, and psychology look at the complex relationship between the living worship of female divinities and women in India. In keeping with the multiplicity, especially of Hinduism but also Buddhism and Jainism, the anthology presents a number of sometimes conflicting views rather than a consistent account. Only authors are indexed. c. Book News Inc.

Author : Carol P. Christ
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136763848
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rebirth of the Goddess written by Carol P. Christ and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1998-10-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999. One of the most unexpected developments of the late twentieth century is the rebirth of the religion of the Goddess in western cultures. Though we were taught that the Gods and Goddesses died with the triumph of Christianity, the re-emergence of the Goddess is not as surprising as it might seem. This book explores the meaning of the Goddess, and the questions we ask as well as the ways we answer them.

Author : Alf Hiltebeitel
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 : 9781841271576
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Is the Goddess a Feminist? written by Alf Hiltebeitel and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not A Book About A Single Goddess Or Even About A Variety Of South Asian Goddesses, This Volume Raises Questions About Images Of Deities As Symbols And The Ways In Which They Function. It Also Looks At The Politics And Theology Of Western Feminist Use Of Hindu And Buddhist Goddesses As Models For Their Feminist Reflections.

Author : Thomas Cleary
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781570628245
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twilight Goddess written by Thomas Cleary and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goddess worship is among the original forms of human religious expression. Thomas Cleary and Sartaz Aziz show how the Divine Feminine has never really disappeared from religion-in spite of its suppression by patriarchal culture. Whether conceptualized as divine person, saint, mythic figure, archetype, or abstract principle, the Divine Feminine inevitably arises, manifesting in hidden as well as obvious ways. This book is a guided tour of the feminine principles, symbols, and imagery found in Hinduism, Taoism, Buddhism, and the Sufi tradition of Islam, with insightful meditations on the deep meanings of these manifestations of the Divine.

Author : Merlin Stone
Publisher : Doubleday
ISBN 13 : 0307816850
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When God Was A Woman written by Merlin Stone and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 2012-05-09 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, archaeologically documented,is the story of the religion of the Goddess. Under her, women’s roles were far more prominent than in patriarchal Judeo-Christian cultures. Stone describes this ancient system and, with its disintegration, the decline in women’s status.

Author : Cynthia Eller
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807065075
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living In The Lap of Goddess written by Cynthia Eller and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1995-12-20 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating introduction to one of the fastest-growing religious movements in the United States today. Through interviews, participant-observation, and analysis of movement literature, Cynthia Eller explores what women who worship the goddess believe; how they express those beliefs in private, in public, and in the political realm; and the place of feminist spirituality in the history of American religion.

Author : Mary J. Magoulick
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 149683707X
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Goddess Myth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture written by Mary J. Magoulick and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2022-02-04 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honorable Mention for the 2022 Elli Köngäs-Maranda Prize awarded by the Women's Section of the American Folklore Society Goddess characters are revered as feminist heroes in the popular media of many cultures. However, these goddess characters often prove to be less promising and more regressive than most people initially perceive. Goddesses in film, television, and fiction project worldviews and messages that reflect mostly patriarchal culture (included essentialized gender assumptions), in contrast to the feminist, empowering levels many fans and critics observe. Building on critiques of other skeptical scholars, this feminist, folkloristic approach deepens how our remythologizing of the ancient past reflects a contemporary worldview and rhetoric. Structures of contemporary goddess myths often fit typical extremes as either vilified, destructive, dark, and chaotic (typical in film or television); or romanticized, positive, even utopian (typical in women’s speculative fiction). This goddess spectrum persistently essentializes gender, stereotyping women as emotional, intuitive, sexual, motherly beings (good or bad), precluded from complex potential and fuller natures. Within apparent good-over-evil, pop-culture narrative frames, these goddesses all suffer significantly. However, a few recent intersectional writers, like N. K. Jemisin, break through these dark reflections of contemporary power dynamics to offer complex characters who evince “hopepunk.” They resist typical simplified, reductionist absolutes to offer messages that resonate with potential for today’s world. Mythic narratives featuring goddesses often do, but need not, serve merely as ideological mirrors of our culture’s still problematically reductionist approach to women and all humanity.

Author : Manfred Hauke
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 9780898705591
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God Or Goddess? written by Manfred Hauke and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hauke provides a tour de force study of the history and basic characteristics of modern feminism. Hauke presents an objective, detailed study of the facts of feminist theology around the world, using their own words and writings. He looks at the distinctiveness of feminist theology, what its image of man is as a fundamental point of departure, its basis from the experience of women as "formal principle", its views of the image of God, Christ, Mary, the Church, liturgy, ecology and eschatology. After carefully describing what the feminist position is, Hauke gives a critique from the point of view of the Catholic tradition. "The purpose of the present work is to provide, not a kind of "encyclopedia" on feminist theology, but an introduction and representative survey of central themes that will enable one to form a personal opinion. Addressed here are not just specialists in theology but all women and men who desire to inform themselves further about the powerful historical current that is feminist theology." -Manfred Hauke

Author : Donna Giancola
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793601550
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Name of the Goddess written by Donna Giancola and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Name of the Goddess: A Biophilic Ethic explores a dynamic, holistic ethic of interconnections, ecological sustainability, and eco-justice through goddess worship and eco-feminism. Donna Giancola proposes principles to establish social harmony and ecological balance through moral, political, and spiritual values and practices that provide a comprehensive foundation for integrating wisdom and action in daily life, communities, and international policies.

Author : Melissa Raphael
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781850759751
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introducing Thealogy written by Melissa Raphael and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1998-12-31 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are a number of participant accounts of the revival of Goddess religion among feminists in Europe, America and Australasia. But students and others interested in issues in the relation of religion, theo/alogy and gender need an accessible and concise critical overview of this contemporary religious phenomenon and its discourses. Introducing Thealogy, which offers a contextual analysis of the thealogy, ontology, historiography and ethics of various types of Goddess feminism, is designed to meet that need.