Bibliography for The Goddess and the Bull (original) (raw)

The Disappearing of the Goddess and Gimbutas A Critical Review of The Goddess and the Bull

2007

The title of Michael Balter’s book, The Goddess and the Bull. Çatalhöyük: An Archaeological Journey to the Dawn of Civilization (2005), immediately attracts people interested in Neolithic beliefs. One assumes from the strategic word “goddess” in the title, and the book’s cover—featuring the famous image of the corpulent seated woman flanked by two leopards found at Çatalhöyük—that the volume is a celebration of the ancient female-centered religion that numerous scholars believe was at the heart of ancient Anatolian culture. Instead, The Goddess and the Bull is another example of literature that serves to “disappear” the goddess as simply an archaeological/historical construct.

Whence the Goddesses: A Source Book

Whence the Goddesses: A Source Book, 1990

This book is a source book in two ways. It traces the sources of early historic Indo-European (Greco-Roman, Indic, Iranian, Germanic, Lithuanian, Latvian, Slavic, Irish, and Welsh) goddesses and heroines, beginning with Neolithic iconography and continuing through the iconography of Near Eastern goddesses and texts dating from the third through the first millennia BCE. It is found that Neolithic European bird and snake iconography, as well as iconography, functions, and epithets, are given to many Indo-European female figures. The other way in which this is a source book is that the author has translated texts from all of these cultures, so that the reader may have primary sources for all of these female figures.

Goddesses in Myth, History and Culture

Textbook, 2018

This book fills the very real need for an affordable, accessible, academic textbook featuring Goddesses from a wide range of world religious, cultural and mythological traditions. As a textbook, its primary audience is professors and students in university and college courses in Goddess Studies, Religious Studies, and Women’s and Gender Studies. It will also be of interest to students and instructors in the many Goddess-themed courses outside the academy. The contributors to the textbook were selected for their scholarly expertise and qualifications in their respective areas of study, both established and emerging scholars from Canada, the U.S., the U.K., Scandinavia, and Australia. The Goddess traditions surveyed in the 22 chapters include the Female Divine in the major world religions—not only Hinduism and Buddhism, but also in the “Western Religions” of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, popularly regarded as impervious to the Goddess. The coverage ranges from ancient to contemporary, Mago to Mary Magdalene. As such, it is a unique and much-needed resource for students and faculty, as well as a treasury of Goddess scholarship.