When God Was A Woman

Issue 1: Merlin Stone’s Depiction of Where Feminism and Religion Collide

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With this being the very first issue of the Spark Siren newsletter, I wanted to jumpstart this reader experience with a title that was not only provocative but was written to completely restructure the degree of importance with which we regard women in our world.

Merlin Stone’s book title, “When God Was A Woman” discusses how the Great Goddess was the master of our universe for most of our ancient civilisations, but also how that high regard was slowly diminished when the concept of a sole male deity came to the foreground. Her writing ultimately discusses how the suppression of the Goddess also resulted in the suppression of the women in our society.

In this book, Stone disassembles the current constructs of religious structure by exploring the history of the Goddess and our society’s relation to that belief. She also explores how our perception and integration of religion ultimately impact the state of our cultures as well as the p…