Twilight Goddess
Subtitle: Spiritual Feminism and Feminine Spirituality
Edition: 1st Shambhala Ed edition
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: October 10, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781570624995
Subjects: Devotional theology & objects of veneration; Non-Christian religions; Women's studies; Social Science; Women And Religion (General); Comparative Religion; Religion; Women's Studies - General; Reference; Women and religion; Religion / Comparative Religion; General; Goddess religion
Description: "Much has been written about the Goddess in recent times: the general understanding is that Goddess worship died with the pagans, stamped out by the patriarchal "world religions" that followed. Here, in a guided tour of the feminine principles, symbols, and imagery found in Hinduism, Taoism, Buddhism, and the Sufi tradition of Islam, Twilight Goddess proves that the female face of the divine has never really disappeared from religion - including those normally seen as patriarchal.

To the contrary: whether conceptualized as deity, saint, mythic figure, archetype, or abstract principle, the Divine Feminine has manifested in ways both hidden and overt in all four traditions."--BOOK JACKET.