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Title	:	When God Was a Woman
Author	:	Merlin Stone
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 265 pages
Published	:	January 1st 1990 by Marboro Books (first published January 1st 1976)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Feminism. History

When God Was a Woman

Merlin Stone

Hardcover | Pages: 265 pages

Rating: 4.03 | 3575 Users | 261 Reviews

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It's definitely written in a way that is accessible to pretty much anyone, and should be part of your education in that it remains a perspective that people hold on to. But most academics - feminist archaeologists, Classicists and historians included - agree that the majority of the evidence cited doesn't really hold up to snuff. (I'm speaking in particular of Marija Gimbutas' work, which is the most often cited.)

If you loved this book, I strongly recommend following it with Cynthia Eller's The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory Why An Invented Past Will Not Give Women a Future. Beyond arguing evidence, it challenges the usefulness of perpetuating the very stories being constructed by people like Ms. Stone. Granted, there was a lot of backlash (not to mention feelings of betrayal) after Eller published her book, but read it to inform yourself.

Then, after reading both, you may find yourself in the middle, just like me, agreeing with apparently mutually exclusive perspectives.

Details Books In Pursuance Of When God Was a Woman

Original Title:	The Paradise Papers: The Suppression of Women's Rites
ISBN:	0880295333 (ISBN13: 9780880295338)
Edition Language:	English

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I can't believe I forgot to review this book. I read it months and months ago.Anyway, I couldn't even finish it. It was boring and dry and ridiculous.The author has no background in archeology or anthropology. She's an artist.... with an agenda. And she twists everything to fit that agenda.I also found it obnoxious that she vehemently accused others of bias when she is INCREDIBLY biased herself.Basically, I didn't believe much of what she said.

This is a history of how matriarchal religious influence has been systemically been devalued,demeaned and to a large part removed from world religion. Not a fun read, but an interesting one. This is a deep dive into religious history.And the author makes no apologies in her views. The level of detail is daunting, more than I bargained for. Still, I'm glad I tackled it.

Merlin Stone synthesizes a great deal of the scholarship and ancient narratives of the goddess religions (though, as she points out, at the time of the Upper Paleolithic, everything was a goddess religion.) She reminds us of Innin, Inanna, Nana, Nut, Anat, Anahita, Istar, isis, Au Set, Ishara, Asherah, Ashtart, Attoret, Attar and Hathor, amongst others. She takes us on an ambition journey, travelling from the dawn of the Neolithic, through the Sumerian myths and writing, over to Cret, and then

I will pick which letter I will use for the a to z author challenge later.This book was interesting in the fact, while not that historically accurate* (it was also originally written in 1976), that did not bother me. I read this as more of a spiritual contemplation then a historical document. I am debating on putting this on the feminism shelf, but at the same time not sure if it belongs there. We shall see how my bookshelves progress. LOL*To be fair, academically. historically, and

I re-read this book during Holy week. I had been feeling very despondent about the theme God sends His Son to die for our sins, violence is a solution to problems. Life,the wonderful universe, is so much more than sin and death and conflict and war. How did we pick this violent,vindictive local diety to be elevated to the One God? I felt sad and irritable. Four thousand or more years of humanity chasing favor with a God who demands not mere blood sacrifice but painful physical annihilation of

5 stars for the content, 2 stars for the editing. I am generally very interested in anthropology and the history of religion so I've read a few books on it. And for all the problems this book has with its editing (it took me a few months to get through, and the first fifth was downright frustrating), I hadn't realized just how much our idea of religion begins with Judaism. Anything other than the Abrahamic religions is in another category of the pockets of our minds labeled 'indigenous'. We have