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The Women of Eleusis

Women and Religion


All of the major world religions deprecate women to some degree. This page archives texts which relate specifically to women and religion from a female perspective. This includes historic feminist texts on the topic, texts about Goddess-oriented sprituality and Amazons.


Historic texts

  Vindication of the Rights Of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft. [1792] 518,787 bytes
  The Subjection of Women
by John Stuart Mill. [1869] 264,4077 bytes
  Clothed With The Sun
by Anna Kingsford [1889]
  The Garden of Eden; or The Paradise Lost & Found
by Victoria Claflin Woodhull [1890]
  Woman, Church, and State
by Matilda Joslyn Gage [1893]
  The Woman's Bible
by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. [1895]
  Woman and the New Race
by Margaret Sanger. [1920]


Women Warriors

  The Amazons by Guy Cadogan Rothery. [1910]
  Religious Cults Associated with the Amazons
by Florence Mary Bennett. [1912]


Goddesses

  The Burden of Isis Hymns to Isis, a primary Ancient Egyptian Goddess. Ancient Egyptian
  Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes 
Hawaiian Fire Goddess Pele, who lives in a volcano and surfs on lava. 
  Hymn to Demeter
Classical Pagan
  The Poems of Sappho
Classical Pagan; particularly her Hymn to Aphrodite
  Descent of Ishtar into the Lower World.
Ancient Near East
  Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches
Late European Wiccan
  Hymn to the All-Mother
Aztec
  The Devî Gita
The Hindu religion is one of the only major world religions other than Neopaganism which today worships Goddesses. In this insightful text the Goddess (the Devî) describes her nature and means of devotion to her.
  Hymn to the Goddess of Dawn
Hindu
  The Hopi Origin Myth
The Goddess Huruing Wuhti co-creates the world with the Sun God. Hopi
  The Book of the Goddess
[2002]
  Myths and Legends of Crete and Pre-Hellenic Europe.
The ancient Minoans of Crete are believed by many to have been Goddess worshippers.


Other Religions

  Folk-Lore of Women by Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer [1906]
A review of traditional stereotypical views of women. 

  Shaker Documents.
The Shakers, a unique 19th Century American Christian group founded by Ann Lee, believed that God has both male and female aspects.
  The Kabbalah Unveiled
Jewish mysticism is much more balanced in its treatment of male/female dualities than 'mainstream' Judeo-Christian thought. For instance, see this chapter. This translation of the Zohar by S.L. MacGregor