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University of California Press, Berkeley (.), 2005. IX,381p. ills.(B&W photographs). Original cloth with dust wrappers. Ruether advances a groundbreaking critique of influential notions about the matriarchal nature of prehistoric societies as she conducts a wide-ranging investigation of female expresions of the devine. She goes on to consider key myths and rituals from Sumerian, Babylonian, Egyptian, and Anatolian cultures. She examins the realtionships among gender, deity, and nature in the Hebrew religion, discusses the development of Mariology and female mysticism in Cathoicism and Protestantism. As a gifted storyteller Ruether lucidly translates complex ideas and debates. (Publisher's information).…