Ruether, Rosemary Radford.

Goddesses and the divine feminine a Western religious history / [electronic resource] : Rosemary Radford Ruether. - Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2005. - ix, 381 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-358) and index.

Gender and the problem of prehistory -- Goddesses and world renewal in the ancient mediterranean -- The Hebrew God and gender -- Savior goddesses in the mystery religions and gnosticism -- The spiritual feminine in New Testament and patristic Christianity -- Feminine symbols in medieval religious literature -- Tonantzin-Guadalupe : the meeting of Aztec and Christian female symbols in Mexico -- Mary and wisdom in protestant mystical millennialism -- Contested gender status and imagining ancient matriarchy -- The return of the goddess.


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Goddesses.
Women and religion.
Goddess religion.


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