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This 6 page paper discusses the proliferation of Goddess centered religions over the last five years across the world. Tied to the feminist movement, some claim that it is a vehicle for women's rights. This paper argues against this as women search for empowerment and freedom from a male dominated religion which has for so long relegated women to second class status. Quotes abound in this paper. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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property of their fathers, husbands or boyfriends, they had little power to affect their situations. With the rising tide of feminism many doors would be opened, and many previously held
misconceptions would be changed. In most areas, the value of women was grasped and after a fashion, women attained the equality that they had fought so long for. On every
front, that is, except religion. Today there has been a resurgence of goddess worship among women, perhaps as a reaction to the long held male dominated religions which relegated women
to a lower status than men, and which ostensibly did not meet their needs. Therefore, worldwide there has begun a shifting of paradigms as a new feminism takes shape in
the form of goddess worship. Some religions have, in their defense, relaxed some of their more stringent laws in regard to women. For example, the Catholics no longer believe
that women have no souls, and as a general rule most Christian religions do not excommunicate women for the length of their hair, their choice of dress, or their personal
relationships. However, most religions, Christian or not, still do not value women as much as they value men. This has led to a resurgence of Goddess worship and the proliferation
of Wicca, a matriarchal based religion. When one studies the ancient belief systems in which the goddesses were worshiped it is not difficult to see why many women would finally
put down their collective religious foot. In many male dominated religions, states Susan Starr Sered, in her book, Priestess, Mother, Sacred Sister, the "symbol of the Father God, spawned in
the human imagination and sustained as plausible by patriarchy, has in turn rendered service to this type of society by making its mechanisms for oppression of women seem right"(Sered 2002).
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