The Divine Feminine: Recovering the Feminine Face of God Around the World

by Andrew Harvey

Book Overview

A collection of readings is drawn from a wide range of religious traditions, including Greek, Egyptian, Judaic, Islamic, Christian, Taoist, and Buddhist, and explores the feminine image of the divine. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1573240354
• ISBN13: 9781573240352
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Conari Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 4.9" x 5.9" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

A Beautiful Holistic Tribute to the Divine Feminine

I find this book simple and profound, beautiful and informative. It is a book I will return to again and again for there are so many inroads to access the information, i.e. images, ritualistic hymns, poems and the beautiful artwork to be reflected on and contemplated. Harvey and Baring get right to the point of how the divine feminine is situated within each religious community. The text is well written and provides insight as to why there is so much anxiety about the body in contemporary culture.

Finally revealing the feminine face that has been hidden

I am not a feminist or even a woman, but I have come to value the simple fact that making God only male gives high standards to male characture traits and those traits being carried forward as "divine", i.e. violence , war, domination of women and children. I do not say that violence and opression is a completely male arena, but I think we have a good sized near-monopoly on those vices. Thinking of God as a nurturing mother ,kind and caring to her children makes striving to be like God, a goal that would truly change the world into a better place. A great historical study and a great break from the Boys club of the three mono-thesistic religions.