Twilight Goddess: Spiritual Feminism and Feminine Spirituality

Goddess worship is among the original forms of human religious expression. Thomas Cleary and Sartaz Aziz show how the Divine Feminine has never really disappeared from religionin spite of its suppression by patriarchal culture. Whether conceptualized as divine person saint mythic figure archetype or abstract principle the Divine Feminine inevitably arises manifesting in hidden as well as obvious ways. This book is a guided tour of the feminine principles symbols and imagery found in Hinduism Taoism Buddhism and the Sufi tradition of Islam with insightful meditations on the deep meanings of these manifestations of the Divine.