Title: Twilight Goddess: Spiritual Feminism and Feminine Spirituality
Authors: Thomas Cleary and Sartaz Aziz
Publisher: Shambhala, Boston Date: 2000
This book proports to present the fiminine face of divinity as seen in modern periods, working from the contest of a brief overview of world religions. The focused/hilighted religions are:
Hinduisim, Taoism, Buddhisim (Mahynana), Islam (Sufi)
Halfway through the text, I find it to be an interesting survey of female divinity. It is unclear, however, if they've proven their point. it is clear that in the Orient (including Arabic nations) that feminine divinity has not been clearly suppressed as it has in Europe and nations of European descent. On the whole, however, a very facinating book.
An excellent book! I couldn't put it down. It ended far too soon.
[Edited to add: I finished this book rather quickly. In my rapid devowering of the text, I failed to write in any comments of depth, as you see.]
Originally Published: 8/23/2006
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