Religious Aspects Term Paper

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Women, Earth, And Creator Spirit Johnson

In her book, Women, Earth, and Creator Spirit, Elizabeth A. Johnson investigates the close connection between society's domination of women and mankind's domination of the earth. Johnson begins her book with a thorough description of some of the many ways that mankind has exploited the earth. She notes that we continue to poison our water, air and soil, and thereby "making the planet unfit for life" (p. 5). She continues, noting that our industrial activities are destroying the earth, and that we are rapidly causing the extinction of "more than half the species created by God" (p. 7).

Johnson makes a convincing case that women have traditionally been marginalized both in greater society and within the church, and that the exploitation of women is linked to man's exploitation of the earth.
She notes that this exploitive attitude is characterized by a belief that humanity is separate from, and superior to, nature, and that man is separate from, and superior to, woman. To Johnson,….....

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