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Restoring the Goddess: Equal Rites for Modern Women
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 291.2082
EAN: 9781573927864
ISBN: 1573927864
Label: Prometheus Books
Manufacturer: Prometheus Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 422
Publication Date: 2000-03
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Studio: Prometheus Books
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Editorial Review:
This is both an incisive critique of patriarchal religion and a bold proposal to establish a liberating alternative to the Judeo-Christian tradition. Barbara Walker envisions a religion and a spirituality compatible with women's essential role in society and free of all the superstition and demeaning imagery characteristic of traditional, male-dominated religion. Hearkening back to the widespread worship of a mother goddess at the dawn of civilization, Walker argues for a restoration of this primal religious sensibility, which celebrated the Earth's fertility and woman's innate power to bear new life. Women are already rediscovering these ancient forms, Walker shows, and redefining the modern outlook in response to women's new appreciation of their rights and the long history of male dominance.
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Rating:  - Part manifesto, part group therapy, part philosophy textbook
I think that some Wiccans who bought this seemed disappointed that it wasn't a more practical work. I love this book specifically because it is a total exercise in thought. It examines where we may have been, where we know we've been, where we are and where we *could* go in human society.
The book for the most part serves as an indictment of patriarchal society, and like any good manifesto, it tells why the proposed system is better. Unlike a manifesto, however, it doesn't get bogged down in ... Read More
Rating: - Men of quality are comfortable with womens equality
I am a male, and I found this book extremely interesting, from a historical and cultural perspective. The author believes that in ancient times, human culture was more respectful toward women, and this may be true, at least in some lands. Certainly, in intervening centuries, women have been treated as having far less worth than many animals, especially in lands ruled by patriarchal governments.
I didn't interpret her book as a recommendation for atheism. Instead, Ms Walker offers a view of what ... Read More
Rating: - Great Book
When I read this book, I was already well-versed in the damage that patriarchal religions have done to women's lives and sad part it true even in paganism and wicca a example of this is found on P17 of ED fitches A book of shadows which talk about the high priestess and high priest are chosen by looks ack what kind of stuff is that I think we need equality and get away from these sterotype which seem to leach in paganism. I found this book had alot of offer and makes the reader think.
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Rating: - and the Scales fell from my eyes
....Part of what Ms. Walker advocates is a balanced society that values women as highly as men, and she very effectively demonstrates how patriachical religion has not and will not do this without complete reversal of its myths. Ms. Walker also never advocates one and only true and good religion, which is a premise solely of patriarchical religion where you must believe my one and only way or you must be destroyed because only if you believe my way can I control you and have power over you.
While I will ... Read More
Rating: - removing blinders
This is one of the most powerful books I've ever read -- and believe me, I've read a lot. I am a spiritual seeker, and come from a Roman Catholic tradition. For the longest time I've been "on the fringe", struggling with many things in my tradition, and struggling also with much in the Christian tradition. I've read a lot of theology and have studied religion a great deal. Now Walker comes along with enormous research, pulling together the bits and pieces I've learned and weaving them into a book that ... Read More
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