Rosemary Radford Ruether starts her exploration of the divine female with an research of prehistoric archaeology that demanding situations the preferred concept that, till their overthrow by way of male-dominated monotheism, many historic societies have been matriarchal in constitution, ruled by way of a female divinity and latest in concord with nature. For Ruether, the ancient facts indicates the truth approximately those societies is far extra complicated. She is going directly to think about key myths and rituals from Sumerian, Babylonian, Egyptian, and Anatolian cultures; to envision the relationships between gender, deity, and nature within the Hebrew faith; and to debate the advance of Mariology and feminine mysticism in medieval Catholicism, and the continuation of knowledge mysticism in Protestanism. She additionally supplies a provocative research of the assembly of Aztec and Christian girl symbols in Mexico and of state-of-the-art neo-pagan activities within the United States.
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