Divine Women

Historian Bettany Hughes traces the hidden and often controversial history of women in religion. From ancient Greece and Rome to China and India, she journeys across continents to uncover stories that unlock a secret history of the world. She visits the world's oldest religious site to find startling evidence that women were there, at the very birth of organised religion. Travelling across the Mediterranean and the Near East, she goes to remote places where she encounters fearsome goddesses who controlled life and death, and in modern-day India Hughes experiences goddess worship up close. … MORE