It has been hailed as a major cultural contribution. The book has influenced popular thinking, was called “the greatest murder mystery of all times,” and inspired Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code with its challenge to conventional religious dogmas.
Riane Eisler’s The Chalice & the Blade: Our History, Our Future has sold over 500,000 copies and has been translated into 26 languages including Chinese, Arabic, Hebrew, German, Japanese, Korean, Urdu, Russian, Spanish, French, Italian, Greek, Portuguese, Finnish, Danish, Czech, Dutch, Swedish, and Norwegian, with a British edition in Australia, India, and South Africa. It provides verification that a better future is possible - and is in fact firmly rooted in the haunting drama of what actually happened in our past.
Weaving together evidence from art, archeology, religion, social science, history, and many other fields of inquiry into new patterns that more accurately fit the best available data, it shows that war and the “war of the sexes” are neither divinely nor biologically ordained. This international bestseller - now in 27 foreign editions, including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, Urdu, and most European languages - tells a fascinating new story of our past, present, and the possibilities for our future. And it provides verification that a better future is possible - and is in fact firmly rooted in the haunting drama of what actually happened in our past. It shows that war and the “war of the sexes” are neither divinely nor biologically ordained. For more information, see and Chalice and the Blade tells a new story of our cultural origins. She keynotes conferences worldwide, is a leader in the global human rights movement, and has received many honors, including honorary PhDs and the Distinguished Peace Leadership award. Eisler is Editor in Chief of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies hosted at the University of Minnesota and teaches the CPS Leadership Training Program. Her work is widely used as the basis for social action campaigns such as CPS’s Caring Economy Campaign and the Spiritual Alliance to Stop Intimate Violence. Eisler is President of the Center for Partnership Studies ( CPS) and consults on the partnership model introduced by her research. Riane Eisler is best known for her international bestseller The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future (now in 26 languages) and The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics, hailed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu as “a template for the better world we have been so urgently seeking.” Her other books include the award-winning Tomorrow’s Children, The Power of Partnership, Sacred Pleasure, and with Teddie Potter, Transforming Interprofessional Partnerships.
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