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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.
Vindication of the
Rights Of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft. [1792] 518,787
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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]
The Amazons
by Guy Cadogan Rothery. [1910]
Religious
Cults Associated with the Amazons by Florence Mary
Bennett. [1912]
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.
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
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