She believes the "Prehistoric Great Goddess" had the function of the regeneration of life but was concerned with the cycle of both life and death, and she insists that the underlying notion of the goddess is androgynous. ..
As the gateway to the mysteries of the cosmos associated with the birth-death-rebirth cycle, the vagina was both feared and revered. When revered, men thought of sexual intercourse as connection with women's energy. Such is the belief in tantric .. passageway to and from the spirutual world. .. neopaganism, which is surely one of the most tolerant spiritual movements of recent history, there have been tensions .. spiritual expressions of yearning as a shared space and feeling of possibility. Alternatively a feminist philosophy of religion might confront male philosophers more directly by seeking a new philosophical account of the rationality of religions belief. .. race and sex in conceptions of identity; then to overcome racism ..
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-Serinity Young
