内容简介
Here, archaeologically documented,is the story of the religion
of the Goddess. Under her, womens roles were far more prominent
than in patriarchal Judeo-Christian cultures. Stone describes this
ancient system and, with its disintegration, the decline in womens
status. Index; maps and illustrations.
作者简介
Merlin Stone became interested in archaeology and ancient
religions from her study of ancient art. She taught at the State
University of New York at Buffalo. From 1958 to 1967 she worked as
a sculptor, exhibiting widely and executing numerous commissions.
She spent a decade on research before writing the book published in
the UK as The Paradise Papers and then in the U.S. as When God Was
a Woman (1976). It describes her theory of how the Hebrews
suppressed allegedly goddess-based religions practiced in Canaan
and how their reaction to what she asserts as being the existing
matriarchial and matrilineal societal structures shaped Judaism
and, thus, Christianity. Her other major work, Ancient Mirrors of
Womanhood (ISBN# 0-8070-6751-2) collects stories, myths, and
prayers involving goddess-figures from a wide variety of world
religions, ancient and otherwise. Stone's hypotheses are radical
and challenging to the accepted views of antiquity, and as such
they remain controversial. She is the author of numerous short
stories, book reviews, and essays, including "3,000 Years of
Racism." Stone's book When God Was a Woman had a profound effect on
the emerging Goddess Culture of the 1970s and 80s in the US. It
spoke clearly and simply to women raised in traditional
Judeo-Christian traditions, and made the concept of a female deity
accessible