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Bezig met laden... Changing of the Gods (1979)door Naomi R. Goldenberg
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)291.1783412Religions Other Religions Comparative Religion; Mythology (No Longer Used) Mythologies Theologies Religions and Particular Groups of PeopleLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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The author really does nail exactly how detrimental religion has been to humanity though, specifically the role it has played in the oppression of women, deification of men, and exactly what it robbed from all of us by not telling stories of women throughout history and religious text.
I really enjoyed the witchcraft sections, as I had never heard the specifics of that belief system laid out in an orderly fashion. I completely get the appeal of it as a counter culture to Christianity, which has severely oppressed womankind for thousands of years. The deification of women in general, the idea that a woman could see herself as an image of a goddess, the focus on the stages of life and cycles of being, etc, were all probably very good things for the time.
The book sort of loses itself a bit in the final chapters, and doesn't really contain a satisfactory conclusion, it just kind of ends. I suspect that these chapters were short essays compiled into this collection. Each section itself is very well written, and absolutely full of great quotes on the damaging effects of religion and what needs to change in order to undo that damage.
I would be very interested to read a follow up from Goldenberg on her current thoughts about the shape of feminism in religion. ( )