The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.

Carol P. Christ
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  1. Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants.
  2. I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.
  3. The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.
  4. The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.
  5. Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers.
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