Carol P. Christ
Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants.
-Carol P. Christ
courage
In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.
-Carol P. Christ
death
I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.
-Carol P. Christ
graduation
The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.
-Carol P. Christ
power
I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.
-Carol P. Christ
religion
In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.
-Carol P. Christ
religion
The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.
-Carol P. Christ
religion
In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.
-Carol P. Christ
religion
Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers.
-Carol P. Christ
religion
Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants.
-Carol P. Christ
respect
Our great symbol for the Goddess is the moon, whose three aspects reflect the three stages in women's lives and whose cycles of waxing and waning coincide with women's menstrual cycles.
-Carol P. Christ
women
I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.
-Carol P. Christ
women
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