The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.

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.

The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely to defend the patriarchal structures against her own daughters.

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.

Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body.

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.