Eve’s spirit communicates a universal spiritual wisdom to women.
Eve, the mother of all who live, desires to nurture all of her daughters, to impart empowering spiritual and practical truths, plucked from the tree of knowledge.

Resurrecting Eve: Women of Faith Challenge the Fundamentalist Agenda. Finding Eve’s spirit in the teachings of Jesus, authors Roberta Pughe and Paula Sohl explore her bold, self-directed, and inquisitive nature as a model for women today who have been negatively affected by the oppressive and hierarchical fundamentalist Church. Drawing on personal experiences, Paula and Roberta analyze fundamentalist systems from political, theological, and psychological perspectives to unveil the ways patriarchal religious dogma stifles women’s voices and spirits.

Using case studies, story, poetry, dance, ritual, color, and exploration of Biblical texts in the feminist revisionist tradition, they invite each reader into a pilgrimage of healing resurrection.

Resurrecting Eve is designed to explore the repression of women and the feminine as the motivating force behind oppressive religious dogma. Even though they've chosen to focus on how fundamentalism treats and affects women, the authors hope that many men will read the book and see the parallels between the male perspective and the female experience. Hierarchical attitudes have bled through the entire culture and all persons might benefit from examining the influential role that patriarchal religious traditions have had in shaping beliefs. For these reasons, the authors see this book as useful for men, women and even teenagers. Therapists seeking to assist clients in moving through the impasses of their lives will find this to be a valuable resource. It is particularly relevant in academic settings (sociology, psychology, women's studies and religion) for educating students regarding the characteristics of this deadening, dominating system.