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10 best books like When God Was a Woman (Merlin Stone): Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism, The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess, The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth, The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future (Updated With a New Epilogue), Goddesses in Everywoman, Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America, Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter, Crossing to Avalon: A Woman's Midlife Quest for the Sacred Feminine, The Language of the Goddess

Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism
AuthorMary Daly
ISBN0807014133
This revised edition includes a New Intergalactic Introduction by the Author.

Mary Daly's New Intergalactic Introduction explores her process as a Crafty Pirate on the Journey of Writing Gyn/Ecology and reveals the autobiographical context of this "Thunderbolt of Rage" that she first...
The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess
AuthorStarhawk
ISBN0062516329
The twentieth anniversary edition of The Spiral Dance celebrates the pivotal role the book has had in bringing Goddess worship to the religious forefront. This bestselling classic is both an unparalleled reference on the practices and philosophies of Witchcraft and a guide to the life-affirming...
The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth
AuthorMonica Sjöö
ISBN0062507915
This classic exploration of the Goddess through time and throughout the world draws on religious, cultural, and archaeological sources to recreate the Goddess religion that is humanity’s heritage.

Now, with a new introduction and full-color artwork, this passionate and important...
The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future (Updated With a New Epilogue)
AuthorRiane Eisler
ISBN0062502891
Three stars because it was a pretty interesting read, and she covers, well, all of human history.

I read it because I know a number of people who claim this book fundamentally shaped their worldview (and a number of others who don't make that claim, but are certainly influenced by the popularity...
Goddesses in Everywoman
AuthorJean Shinoda Bolen
ISBN0060572841
A classic work of female psychology that uses seven archetypcal goddesses as a way of describing behavior patterns and personality traits is being introduced to the next generation of readers with a new introduction by the author.

Psychoanalyst Jean Bolen's career soared in the early 1980s...
Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America
AuthorMargot Adler
ISBN0143038192
Now fully revised-the classic study of Neo-Paganism

Almost thirty years since its original publication, Drawing Down the Moon continues to be the only detailed history of the burgeoning but still widely misunderstood Neo- Pagan subculture. Margot Adler attended ritual gatherings and...
Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life
AuthorThomas Moore
ISBN0060922249
SECOND REVIEW, MARCH 2008:
There will be many revisions of this review because I will probably have to read and re-read this book for my entire life just to fully absorb it.

Freaking Thomas Moore. He grabs my soul where no other nonfiction spiritual author has managed. The other night, I...
The Dance of the Dissident Daughter
AuthorSue Monk Kidd
The acclaimed spiritual memoir from the author of The Secret Life of Bees.

I was amazed to find that I had no idea how to unfold my spiritual life in a feminine way. I was surprised and, in fact, a little terrified when I found myself in the middle of a feminist spiritual reawakening.

Sue...
Crossing to Avalon: A Woman's Midlife Quest for the Sacred Feminine
AuthorJean Shinoda Bolen
ISBN0062502727
A Midlife Quest For The Grail And The Goddess

Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen's extraordinary memoir celebrates the pilgrimage that heralded her spiritual awakening and leads readers down the path of self-discovery. In this account of her journey to Europe in search of the sacred feminine, she unveils...
The Language of the Goddess
AuthorMarija Gimbutas
ISBN0500282498
Gimbutas' seminal (I use the word ironically) work is a beautiful, yet flawed, artifact. The plethora of images showing carvings and etchings on neolithic pottery and statuary, for the most part, is astounding and worth the price of the book alone. Gimbutas provides a taxonomy of these neolithic (and...
The Story of V: Opening Pandora's Box
AuthorCatherine Blackledge
ISBN0753817764
It is the seat of female sexual pleasure, and the passage for both the creation and the birth of humankind. Yet we know less about the vagina than we do about any other organ of the human body. Why? In this dazzling smorgasbord of facts about female genitalia, Catherine Blackledge explores how the vagina...
The Infinite Game
AuthorSimon Sinek
Do you know how to play the game you're in?

In finite games, like football or chess, the players are known, the rules are fixed, and the endpoint is clear. The winners and losers are easily identified.

In infinite games, like business or politics or life itself, the players come and go,...
Modern Tarot: Connecting with Your Higher Self through the Wisdom of the Cards
AuthorMichelle Tea
ISBN0062682407
The beloved literary iconoclast delivers a fresh twenty-first century primer on tarot that can be used with any deck.

While tarot has gone mainstream with a diverse range of tarot decks widely available, there has been no equally mainstream guide to the tarot—one that can be applied to any...
Reconstructing the Gospel: Finding Freedom from Slaveholder Religion
AuthorJonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
ISBN0830845348
"I am a man torn in two. And the gospel I inherited is divided."

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove grew up in the Bible Belt in the American South as a faithful church-going Christian. But he gradually came to realize that the gospel his Christianity proclaimed was not good news for everybody. The same...
If Women Rose Rooted: The Power of the Celtic Woman
AuthorSharon Blackie
'Rising high up on the heather-covered moorlands, seeping through our bogs, flowing down our streams and into our rivers and out onto the sandy strands of the rock-strewn Atlantic seaboard, are the old Celtic myths and stories … waiting to be reclaimed and re-visioned for the modern world.'

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How to Argue with a Cat: A Human's Guide to the Art of Persuasion
AuthorJay Heinrichs
ISBN1846149576
If you can persuade a cat ... you can persuade anyone. This is the essential guide to getting your way.

Jay Heinrichs, award-winning author of Thank You for Arguing and advisor to the Pentagon, NASA and Fortune 500 companies, distils a lifetime of negotiating and rhetoric to show you how to win...
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