The Myth of the Goddess

The Myth of the Goddess
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Total Pages : 798
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ISBN-10 : 9780141941400
ISBN-13 : 0141941405
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Book Synopsis The Myth of the Goddess by : Anne Baring

Download or read book The Myth of the Goddess written by Anne Baring and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1993-03-25 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, scholarly accessible study, in which the authors draw upon poetry and mythology, art and literature, archaeology and psychology to show how the myth of the goddess has been lost from our formal Judeo-Christian images of the divine. They explain what happened to the goddess, when, and how she was excluded from western culture, and the implications of this loss.


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