This study unites these two strands of research to provide an account of the association between religious belief and gender ideology. Using data from a national random survey and multivariate analysis, I examine whether a masculine image of God is significantly associated with a more conservative gender ideology.

OMG I already love this book! I am still only in the introduction and this book is already so well done. At the beginning of the book there are some excerpts I'm gonna share here. They are very inspirational to me as a secular witch that only relies on the Goddess.In the beginning there was Isis: Oldest of Old, She was the Goddess from whom all Becoming Arose.

She was the Great Lady, Mistress of the two lands of Egypt, Mistress of Shelter, Mistress of Heaven, Mistress of the House of Life, Mistress of the word of God. She was the Unique. In all Her great and wonderful works She was a wiser magician and more excellent than any other God.-Thebes, Egypt, Fourteenth Century BCI am writing these as they appear in the book by the way. Unto Her who renders decision, Goddess of all things, Unto the Lady of Heaven and Earth who receives supplication; Unto Her who hears petition, who entertains prayer; Unto the compassionate Goddess who loves righteousness; Ishtar the Queen, who suppresses all that is confused. To the Queen of Heaven, the Goddess of the Universe, the One who walked in terrible Chaos and brought life by the law of love; And out of Chaos brought us harmony, and from Chaos Thou has led us by the hand.-Babylon, Eighteenth to Seventh Centuries BC.

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Here, archaeologically documented, is the story of the religion of the Goddess. Known by many names-Astarte, Isis, Ishtar, among others-she reigned supreme in the Near and Middle East.

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Beyond being worshipped for fertility, she was revered as the wise creator and the one souce of universal order. Under her, women's roles differed markedly from those in patriarchal Judeo-Christian cultures. Women bought and sold property and traded in the marketplace, and the inheritance of title and property was passed from mother to daughter. How did the change come about? By documenting the wholesale rewriting of myth and religious dogmas, Merlin Stone details a most ancient conspiracey: the patriarchal reimaging of the Goddess as a wanton, depraved figure. This portrait that laid the foundation for one of culture's greatest shams-the legend of Adam and fallen Eve.

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