The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future"In prehistorical times, Eisler argues, women and men lived together in egalitarian communities devoted to nurturance; with the imposition of male domination, female values gave way to creeds of hierarchy, aggression, power, obedience. Eisler, a futurist, posits a new society based on the recovery of more humane values."--From Library journal (6/1/85). |
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... religious initiate a sense of mystical unity with both the dangerous as well as the benign forces governing the world . Thus , in the same way that life was celebrated in religious imagery and ritual , the destructive processes of ...
... religious initiate a sense of mystical unity with both the dangerous as well as the benign forces governing the world . Thus , in the same way that life was celebrated in religious imagery and ritual , the destructive processes of ...
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... religious symbolism be- comes more understandable if we consider that in both the Neolithic- Chalcolithic of Old Europe and the later Minoan - Mycenaean Bronze Age civilization the religion of the Great Goddess appears to have been the ...
... religious symbolism be- comes more understandable if we consider that in both the Neolithic- Chalcolithic of Old Europe and the later Minoan - Mycenaean Bronze Age civilization the religion of the Great Goddess appears to have been the ...
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... religious facsimile of pa- triarchal family organization , is merely mortal - clearly , like her earthly counterparts , of an inferior order . Religions in which the most powerful or only deity is male tend to reflect a social order in ...
... religious facsimile of pa- triarchal family organization , is merely mortal - clearly , like her earthly counterparts , of an inferior order . Religions in which the most powerful or only deity is male tend to reflect a social order in ...
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