Images of Women in the Jewish and Christian Traditions

by Rosemary Radford Ruether

• Women

• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Published: 1998

Publisher's Description

These essays attempt to fill a growing need for a more exact idea of the role of religion, specifically in the Judaeo-Christian tradition, in shaping the traditional cultural images that have degraded and suppressed women. This book provides, in the compass of a single work, a glimpse of the history of the relationship of patriarchal religion to feminine imagery and to the actual psychic and social self-images of women.