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Title: Balanced and Decisive
Review: For those coming to this book without strong opinions one way or another, it is a reasoned, logical and flatly devastating dissection of recent efforts at historical revisionism by religiously and politically motivated feminists. It is also markedly free from malice.I sought out this book after becoming aware that congregants at Chicago-area UUA churches were involved in various activities rooted in beliefs about matriarchal prehistory. That struck me as odd, because I regarded contemporary Unitarians as rationalists committed to Enlightenment thinking (I now know differently, although certainly many are).While I would surely benefit from reading a book written from the opposing perspective, I found Eller's treatment so overwhelmingly convincing (and materials to the contrary so flaky by comparison) that I have little desire to do so.
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