Restoring the Goddess Equal Rites for Modern Women

Name: Restoring the Goddess Equal Rites for Modern Women
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ISBN: 9781573927864

ISBN-10: 1573927864

ISBN-13: 9781573927864

Edition: 2000

Authors: Barbara G. Walker

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"In the beginning, in the time that was no time, nothing existed but the Womb. And the Womb was a limitless dark cauldron of all things in potential: a chaotic blood-soup of matter and energy, fluid as water yet mud-solid with salts of the earth; red-hot as fire yet restlessly churning and bubbling with all the winds. And the Womb was the Mother, before She took form and gave form to Existence. She was the Deep...". With this dramatic, poetic recasting of the Genesis myth, Barbara Walker begins this highly original and fascinating work, which is both an incisive critique of patriarchal religion and a bold proposal to establish a liberating alternative to the Judeo-Christian myth. Hearkening…

Book details

List price: $32.99
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Prometheus Books, Publishers
Publication date: 3/1/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 424
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.08" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English

Barbara G. Walker, author of The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets, The Woman's Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects, and many other books, is a member of the Morris Museum Mineralogical Society and the Trailside Mineral Club of the New Jersey Earth Science Association.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



In the Beginning: The First of All Myths



What Is Thealogy?



Breaking Away from the Patriarchy


Modern Women Talk about Breaking Away from the Patriarchy



What's Wrong with Patriarchy?


Modern Women Talk about What's Wrong with Patriarchy



Physicality


Modern Women Talk about Physicality



Reproduction


Modern Women Talk about Reproduction



Doctrines


Modern Women Talk about Doctrines



The Goddess Image


Modern Women Talk about the Goddess Image



Rituals and Purposes


Modern Women Talk about Rituals and Purposes



The New Age


Modern Women Talk about the New Age



Problems and Fears


Modern Women Talk about Problems and Fears



Mary


Modern Women Talk about Mary



Visions of the Future


Modern Women's Visions of the Future



The Unknown: A Conversation


Notes


Bibliography


Index