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"All three Abrahamic religions are nasty, and women have borne the brunt of the nastiness throughout history. It still persists, and it is moving to listen to women of today telling their personal histories of the various ways in which religion has oppressed them, from childhood on. In their interestingly different ways their testimonies seem to add up to the same story, a story as old as the myth of Eve. I closed the book with uplifted admiration for all these women and for their courage in breaking their historic fetters." —Richard Dawkins, author, The God Delusion"From these delightful and varied stories we learn how many women are taught to feel inferior, sinful, wicked, and worthless but also how many escaped, some through sudden realisation and others after long suffering. Any woman who is hovering on the verge of giving up her indoctrination should read this book." —Susan Blackmore, author, The Meme Machine“When we see the world through other people’s eyes, our horizons are expanded and our lives enriched. Karen Garst’s compilation promotes just that." —Candace R.M. Gorham, LPC, author, The Ebony Exodus Project: Why Some Women Are Walking Out on Religion–and Other Should Too"Sometimes funny, sometimes fierce, often sad and exuberant in turn—these essays invite us along on twenty-two journeys into and out of religion—many from the vantage of a woman who at some point in her life tried to live by a biblical script and then discovered something better." —Valerie Tarico, psychologist and author, Trusting Doubt: A Former Evangelical Looks at Old Beliefs in a New Light and Deas and Other Imaginings“This is one of the most important books on women and religion in the last quarter century.” —Peter Boghossian, author, A Manual for Creating Atheists“Providing rich testimony from a variety of world views and walks of life, Women Beyond Belief is a refreshing snapshot of the cultural and social issues that inform women’s transition to secularism and nonbelief.” —Sikivu Hutchinson, author, Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics and the Values Wars and Godless Americana: Race and Religious Rebels“Why would anyone embrace a male-dominated religion in today’s world, or any religion for that matter? Specifically, why would women embrace the religion of their male oppressors? Given the stories told in this wonderful tell-all book, they shouldn’t . . . . I bid all readers to follow the reasoning and examples of the authors in this book. Their stories are quite revealing and fascinating. Highly recommended!” —John W. Loftus, author, Why I Became an Atheist; editor, Christianity Is Not Great“Women Beyond Belief is a book of revelation, stories of social conditioning and personal self-doubt that have kept women ‘in their place’ historically and in our modern, supposedly educated world. Besides the sometimes wrenching accounts of eventual awakening, Karen Garst provides a very useful account of the Judeo-Christian tradition’s subordination of women that should be read by any woman who still labours under the delusion of a beneficial deity.” —Meredith Doig, President, Rationalist Society of Australia Inc."This book invites us into the hearts and worlds of women who have made the life-changing journey from believer to nonbeliever. Each story is unique, filled with anguish, brilliance, pain, and joy, not unlike having a child. And, yet, each story is the same. Each woman was in a very real sense reborn as they shed the cocoon of their old religion for the wings to take flight into fresh air. Women Beyond Belief is a testimony to the inner call for truth and the strength of these women to find it for themselves. I found them awe-inspiring.” —Rebecca Hale, President, American Humanist Association

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About the Author

Karen L. Garst, PhD, is the former executive director of the Oregon Community College Association and Oregon State Bar. She writes at the Faithless Feminist (http://faithlessfeminist.com/).

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Product details

Paperback: 272 pages

Publisher: Pitchstone Publishing (October 1, 2016)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1634310829

ISBN-13: 978-1634310826

Product Dimensions:

6 x 0.6 x 9 inches

Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.9 out of 5 stars

31 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#1,060,712 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

I purchased this book because I know an author of one of the essays, Ruth Marimo. I have watched her journey from Christian believer to atheist and have read her other books.I found this book fascinating because of the very personal writings of these women. Their journeys were sometimes heartbreaking because of the reactions of their families and friends. But none of them regret making the decisions they did. While I have moved from Christianity to some sort of a belief in a higher power, I haven't made the leap to atheism. I don't know that I ever will, but I am glad that atheists are becoming more vocal and that there are organizations where they find acceptance.One issue I have with religion, and especially religion in America is that we put so much emphasis on politics and religion. The idea that god favors us because we are a "Christian" nation is appalling. This reasoning excuses our extermination of indigenous people, our treatment of slaves and women. This issue is addressed by many of the authors.The idea of living each day to the best of our ability, taking care of our earth and treating others as we want to be treated should be - but in practice are not - what are supposed to be basic tenents of most religions. The authors in the book subscribe to this belief and practice it much better than many believers. I learned much from this book, and I plan on reading it more than once. This is well worth purchasing and is very thought provoking.

Karen Garst was an atheist minding her own business until 30 June 2014 when the deeply polarised US Supreme Court ruled in the ‘Hobby Lobby Stores’ case, that employers are not obliged to provide certain methods of birth control to their employees, under the Affordable Health Care Act, if the employers have religious objections. That woke Garst from her apathy. She realised that the threat of religion to women is far too serious for her to sit idly by.The result was this book, a compilation of essays by women atheists who each provide her personal take on how religion had affected them for the worse. They each try in their own way to show that religion oppresses women. The contributors are from all walks of the religious platform from secularists to Fundamentalist Christians, Catholics, to Mormons, Jews, Pentacostals, and Lutherans. They tell personal stories of how they grew up as atheists or how they grew up in religious families and then walked away from their religion.The message from the contributors is simply that as long as women belong to the Abrahamic faith (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) they will never achieve the equality they seek in modern society. Garst provides her own piece in the Appendix to the book, entitled, ‘The Subordination of Women in the Judeo-Christian Tradition’.The problem with this and many Pitchstone publications is the absence of an index.

I've subscribed to Dr. Garst's blog, the Faithless Feminist, since she began writing it, about the same time this book was published. I resisted buying and reading the book, thinking, "well, I get the benefit of the book by reading the blog." I was wrong. When I finally bought and read the book, which is organised as a series of essays written by women whom Dr. Garst solicited to write of their faith or deconversion journies, the impact of the stories, as a group, was stronger than I anticipated. Here is a group of sincere voices, expressing their emotional responses to their own faith and deconversion experiences, in their own very powerful words. The pains of many different kinds of religious betrayals, witting and unwitting, are real and vivid in these stories. Read them for yourself. Notice how children’s sincerity is commandeered by indoctrinated parents into producing unintended and very real collateral religious damage in the lives of our sisters of many different faith traditions. In the end, it is difficult to not give credence to Dr. Garst’s claim that religion is among the most profound influences in the subjugation of women everywhere, including in these United States.

Wonderful collection of stories. I have many books from secular and atheist authors, but sadly only a small minority of them are written by women. Not only does this collection help promote women's voices but the stories themselves are fascinating and entertaining.

A thought provoking read, laced with both drama and humor, about women who didn't drink the religious Kool Aid. The book fairly questions the hypocritical aspects of religious institutions who promise love, acceptance, and a path to ethical perfection, only to frequently under deliver or completely miss the mark in demonstrating their self-made principles. This is only heightened from the female perspective, as religious institutions are male-centric by design. It is definitely worth checking this book out.

What an amazing collection of essays of diverse women and their experiences. I could relate to several of the women. This is helpful for any woman who is thinking of leaving their faith or already have recently. and needs that confidence and reassurance of being a new atheist. my heart broke for some of these women what they had to go through because of religion. I am glad that they are free and very happy now.

Each narrative is a powerful and moving account of courageous women from varied backgrounds and countries who left their religious upbringing and milieu to live a more complete and unrestricted life, often undergoing great hardships in turning away from the pressures of family and community conformity that religions use all too well to keep people in the fold, but especially employ to keep women marginalized as second class citizens. Dr, Garst provides another set of de-conversion stories for women still dominated by religion to read and realize there is a way out, many ways out. Great edited volume.

Thoughtful, enjoyable read on women who have deconverted

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