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Highlights of the
International Impact of
THE CHALICE & THE BLADE
by Riane Eisler
- Since its
publication by Harper & Row in 1987, Riane Eisler’s The
Chalice & The Blade: Our History, Our Future – now in its
32nd printing, with a new epilogue – has been translated into
17 languages including Chinese, German, Japanese, Russian,
Spanish, French, Italian, Greek, Portuguese, Finnish, Danish,
Czech, Dutch, Hebrew, and Norwegian, with a British edition in
Australia, India, and South Africa.
- It has been
hailed as a major cultural contribution. For example,
anthropologist Ashley Montagu called it “the most important
book since Darwin’s Origin of Species” and novelist
Isabel Allende wrote, “ The Chalice & The Blade is one
of those magnificent key books that can transform us.”
- Inspired by
the Partnership model introduced in The Chalice & The Blade,
the first International Partnership Conference, attended by
500 people from 40 nations, was hosted by the former First
Lady of Greece on the Mediterranean island of Crete in 1992.
- In China,
scholars applied the cultural transformation theory introduced
in The Chalice & The Blade and found that (as in the
West) an earlier partnership-oriented culture once flourished.
Their book, The Chalice & The Blade in Chinese Culture,
was published in 1995 by the Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences in English and Chinese.
- In Germany,
Daniel Goeudevert (former Chairman of Volkswagen) wrote the
Preface to the German edition of The Chalice & The Blade.
- Riane Eisler
was invited to speak by the former President of the German
Parliament, Professor Rita Süssmuth and in the Czech Republic
by Vaclav Havel (President of the Czech Republic), and has
given over 400 other presentations at conferences,
universities, corporations, and governmental and
nongovernmental agencies.
- Businesses,
including multinational corporations where Eisler has been
invited to keynote conferences and as a consultant, have
profited by using Eisler’s Partnership model.
- Workshops have
spontaneously sprung up to help people apply the Partnership
principles to our lives.
- The ABC
television series MacGyver did a two-hour episode based on
information about prehistoric partnership-oriented societies
described in The Chalice & The Blade.
- Scores of
books in fields from sociology, psychology, business
management, human rights, and public affairs to archaeology,
mythology, religion and art have been influenced by The
Chalice & The Blade, and many more feature contributions
by Eisler.
- Thousands of
women and men report The Chalice & The Blade changed
their lives and Partnership Centers have sprung up nationally
and internationally.
- Churches and
other religious organizations, therapists, and educators have
used and recommended The Chalice & The Blade and it has
inspired artists and musicians.
- High school
teachers and university professors have assigned The
Chalice & The Blade to their classes and it has inspired
Masters and Doctoral dissertations.
- Courses at New
York State University, California State University, and other
universities are based on Eisler’s Partnership model and
cultural transformation theory.
- The Center for
Partnership Studies was founded to help bring the Partnership model to families,
schools, businesses, communities, and society at large.
- Dr. Eisler was
honored as the only woman among twenty great thinkers
including Vico, Hegel, Spengler, Adam Smith, Marx, and Toynbee
featured in Macrohistory and Macrohistorians, in
recognition of the lasting importance of her work.
- Dr. Eisler’s
later books, Sacred Pleasure, Tomorrow’s Children,
The Power of Partnership, Women, Men, and the Global
Quality of Life, and The Partnership Way, apply the
Partnership model introduced in The Chalice & The Blade
to spirituality, sexuality, economics, the environment,
education, and day-to-day life.
- Sacred
Pleasure has been translated into Spanish, Italian,
Japanese, and Portuguese; Tomorrow’s Children has been
translated into Urdu for use in Pakistan; and Tomorrow’s
Children was chosen by the International Journal of
Futures Studies as the top of the ten most important books
written about the future in the last 10 years.
- Goddard
College offers a distance learning Masters degree in
Partnership Education, the California Institute for Integral
Studies offers partnership education workshops for teachers,
and Prescott College offers a degree in Partnership Studies.
THE CENTER FOR
PARTNERSHIP STUDIES OFFERS RESOURCES AND WORKSHOPS FOR SCHOOLS,
UNIVERSITIES, AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS
Center for Partnership Studies,
P.O. Box 51936
Pacific Grove, CA 93950, USA
Phone 831-626-1004 Fax 831-626-3734
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