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Merlin Stone

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February 25, 2011

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Merlin Stone is a sculptor and professor of art and art history, perhaps best-known for her feminist book, When God Was a Woman.

Biography
Merlin Stone became interested in archaeology and ancient religions from her study of ancient art. She taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo. From 1958 to 1967 she worked as a sculptor, exhibiting widely and executing numerous commissions. (According to the author's information on the 1976 Harcourt edition of When God Was a Woman)

She spent a decade on research before writing the book published in the UK as The Paradise Papers and then in the U.S. as When God Was a Woman (1976). It describes her theory of how the Hebrews suppressed allegedly goddess-based religions practiced in Canaan and ho...more

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Average rating: 3.90 · 1,088 ratings · 117 reviews · 14 distinct works

	When God Was a Woman 3.86 avg rating — 937 ratings — published 1976 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood: A Treasury of Goddess and Heroine Lore from Around the World by Merlin Stone, Cynthia Stone (Illustrator) 4.15 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 1979 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood Volume 2 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	My rating:
	The Paradise Papers: The Suppression Of Women's Rites 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	My rating:
	Ancient mirrors of womanhood Volume 1 - Our goddess and heroine heritage 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	My rating:
	Relationship Marketing by Merlin Stone, Neil Woodcock 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	Paradise Papers 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	The Hebrew Goddess by Raphael Patai, Merlin Stone (Designed by) 4.22 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 1967 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Customer Management Scorecard: Managing CRM for Profit by Neil Woodcock, Bryan Foss, Merlin Stone 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	Up Close and Personal?: Customer Relationship Marketing @ Work by Paul R. Gamble, Neil Woodcock, Ben Barnes (Foreword) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider the religions of today as strange in that they seem to associate shame and even sin with the very process of conceiving new human life. Perhaps centuries from now scholars and historians will be classifying them as 'sterility cults.”
― Merlin Stone, When God Was a Woman

tags: beliefs , goddess , pagan , religion , religions , sexuality

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“The suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites.”
― Merlin Stone

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