10/30/2022 0 Comments Imeme alternative![]() ![]() The book preserves visions of the divine feminine that may be shocking to some, inspirational to others. The book’s myths, legends, songs, and overheard divine conversations range from the sixth century to the twentieth and carry the potential to shake the foundation of our enduring ideas, or memes if you will, about gender and religion. Our new anthology- A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses: Tales of the Feminine Divine from India and Beyond-offers readers just such an opportunity. ![]() It can be refreshing to delve into alternative conceptions of the divine and what it means to lead a spiritual life. These religious imaginings of gender-to say nothing of race or class-have real consequences that many of us live with every day. Some theologians may retort that God’s gender doesn’t matter, but then why not default to feminine for a change? When God is conceived as male, what does that mean for women and people of alternative gender identities? It has tended to mean a subordinate existence, if not violent abjection. Yet, why would a supreme being be bound by such an algorithmic sense of coherence? Indian civilization, my area of focus, has always presented the divine as transcending such simplistic binaries.Īnother ancient meme, shared and propagated by the vast majority of the billions of religious faithful the world over, is that God is male, and that men, being made in his likeness, are the rightful rulers in families and society. One ancient meme-originating, perhaps, in the eastern Mediterranean-says that there must be either one God or many gods. ![]()
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