Changing of the Gods: Feminism and the End of Traditional Religions

Naomi R. Goldenberg's Changing of the Gods, Feminism and the End of Traditional Religions, published by Beacon Press in 1979, is an early and influential feminist theological critique of patriarchal structures within Judaism and Christianity, written at a formative moment for feminist theology as an academic field. Its authority rests on Goldenberg's standing within that emerging field and the book's wide subsequent citation as a foundational text of feminist critique of religion. Its limit is that it is itself an argued theological and political position from a specific moment in feminist thought, not a neutral survey of the field, so it is best cited as a primary statement of one influential position within feminist theology rather than as a description of feminist theology as a whole.