Editing Goddess (section)

== Feminism ==
{{Main|Feminist theology}}
[[File:Isis Musei Capitolini MC744.jpg|thumb|Roman, [[Hadrian|Hadrianic period]], statue of [[Isis]] in marble from the [[Musei Capitolini]]]]

===Goddess movement===
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At least since [[first-wave feminism]] in the United States, there has been interest in analysing religion to see if and how doctrines and practices treat women unfairly, as in [[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]]'s ''[[The Woman's Bible]]''. Again in [[second-wave feminism]] in the U.S., as well as in many European and other countries, religion became the focus of some feminist analysis in Judaism, Christianity, and other religions, and some women turned to ancient goddess religions as an alternative to Abrahamic religions (''Womanspirit Rising'' 1979; ''Weaving the Visions'' 1989). Today both women and men continue to be involved in the [[Goddess movement]] (Christ 1997). The popularity of organisations such as the [[Fellowship of Isis]] attest to the continuing growth of the religion of the Goddess throughout the world.

While much of the attempt at gender equity in mainstream Christianity (Judaism never recognised any gender for God) is aimed at reinterpreting scripture and degenderising language used to name and describe the divine (Ruether, 1984; Plaskow, 1991), there are a growing number of people who identify as Christians or Jews who are trying to integrate goddess imagery into their religions (Kien, 2000; Kidd 1996,"Goddess Christians Yahoo Group").

===Sacred feminine===
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The term "sacred feminine" was first coined in the 1970s, in [[New Age]] popularisations of the Hindu [[Shakti]]. Hinduism also worships multitude of goddesses that have their important role and thus in all came to interest for the New Age, feminist, and lesbian feminist movements.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Kinsley|first1=David|title=Hindu Goddesses: Visions of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Tradition|date=1988|publisher=University of California Press|location=Berkeley|isbn=9780520908833|page=[https://archive.org/details/hindugoddessesvi0000kins/page/1 1]|edition=1st|url=https://archive.org/details/hindugoddessesvi0000kins|url-access=registration|quote=goddess.|access-date=22 April 2016}}</ref>