When The Goddess Was A Woman

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 : Merlin Stone
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780880295338
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When God was a Woman written by Merlin Stone and published by Barnes & Noble Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, archaeologically documented, is the story of the religion of the Goddess. Known by many names--Astarte, Isis, Ishtar, among others--she reigned supreme in the Near and Middle East. Beyond being worshipped for fertility, she was revered as the wise creator and the one souce of universal order. Under her, women's roles differed markedly from those in patriarchal Judeo-Christian cultures. Women bought and sold property and traded in the marketplace, and the inheritance of title and property was passed from mother to daughter. How did the change come about? By documenting the wholesale rewriting of myth and religious dogmas, Merlin Stone details a most ancient conspiracey: the patriarchal reimaging of the Goddess as a wanton, depraved figure. This portrait that laid the foundation for one of culture's greatest shams--the legend of Adam and fallen Eve.

Author : Merlin Stone
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156961585
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When God was a Woman written by Merlin Stone and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1978 with total page 324 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. Index; maps and illustrations.

Author : Sylvia Brinton Perera
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Descent to the Goddess written by Sylvia Brinton Perera and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneer study of the need for an inner female authority in a masculine-oriented society. Interprets the journey into the underworld of Inanna-Ishtar, Goddess of Heaven and Earth, to see Ereshkigal, her dark sister. So must modern women descend into the depths of themselves. Rich in insights.

Author : Linda Johnsen
Publisher : Yes International Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780936663098
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daughters of the Goddess written by Linda Johnsen and published by Yes International Publishers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes us along on a search for the feminine face of God. We travel with Linda Johnsen for a fascinating investigation of the great women saints of India who manifest the divine in their lives. Together with her we comb the scriptures, meet the holy ones, and are led, step by step, to sit in awe at the feet of six remarkable, contemporary women.

Author : Kris Waldherr
Publisher : Beyond Words Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781885223494
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Embracing the Goddess Within written by Kris Waldherr and published by Beyond Words Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This masterfully illustrated sequel to "The Book of Goddesses" shows women how to incorporate the powers and strengths of goddesses into everyday life. Readers will learn not only the symbolism, qualities, and mythic energies associated with each goddess, but also how to create personal rituals to access their ancient power and wisdom. 2-color sepia & gold interior.

Author : Nikita Gill
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593085671
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Girl and the Goddess written by Nikita Gill and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling poet, writer, and Instagram sensation Nikita Gill returns with an innovative novel in verse, exploring Hindu mythology and legend. Let her be a little less human, a little more divine Give her heart armor so it doesn't break as easily as mine Meet Paro. A girl with a strong will, a full heart, and much to learn. Born into a family reeling from the ruptures of Partition in India, we follow her as she crosses the precarious lines between childhood, teenage discovery, and realizing her adult self. In the process, Paro must confront fear, desire and the darkest parts of herself in the search for meaning and, ultimately, empowerment. Nikita Gill's vivid poetry and beautiful illustrations have captured hearts and imaginations--but in The Girl and the Goddess, she offers us her most personal and deeply felt writing to date: an intimate coming-of-age story told in linked poems that offers a look into the Hindu mythology and rich cultural influences that helped her become the woman she is today.

Author : David Adams Leeming
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195104622
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Goddess written by David Adams Leeming and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Leeming and Jake Page gather some seventy-five of the most potent and meaningful of these tales in an extraordinary rich and readable introduction of this divine figure as she has emerged from prehistory to the present.

Author : Karen L. King
Publisher : Continuum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Goddess Traditions written by Karen L. King and published by Continuum. This book was released on 1997 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goddess religion was widespread in the world of the Bible and is reflected in many biblical texts. This provocative and reliable book, based on thorough analyses of primary sources, examines the role of the feminine deity in religious piety in three areas: Asia, the ancient Mediterranean, and in three contexts today.

Author : Vishwa Adluri
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199931356
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nay Science written by Vishwa Adluri and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nay Science offers a new perspective on the problem of scientific method in the human sciences. Taking German Indological scholarship on the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita as their example, Adluri and Bagchee develop a critique of the modern valorization of method over truth in the humanities. The authors show how, from its origins in eighteenth-century Neo-Protestantism onwards, the critical method was used as a way of making theological claims against rival philosophical and/or religious traditions. Via discussions of German Romanticism, the pantheism controversy, scientific positivism, and empiricism, they show how theological concerns dominated German scholarship on the Indian texts. Indology functions as a test case for wider concerns: the rise of historicism, the displacement of philosophical concerns from thinking, and the belief in the ability of a technical method to produce truth. Based on the historical evidence of the first part of the book, Adluri and Bagchee make a case in the second part for going beyond both the critical pretensions of modern academic scholarship and the objections of its post-structuralist or post-Orientalist critics. By contrasting German Indology with Plato's concern for virtue and Gandhi's focus on praxis, the authors argue for a conception of the humanities as a dialogue between the ancients and moderns and between eastern and western cultures.