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Originally posted by strandinthewind
I know - I read it twice in the same week. I also just read "Angels and Demons," which was good, but not as riveting as the Da Vinci Code. I mean the stuff in the DVC is loosly based on fact, but he makes it all sound so real and it just makes sense. That - and I am a natural conspiracy theorist 
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I have been teaching these concepts for years, including the idea that Judaism, Christianity, and Islam made concerted efforts to destroy & censor. It seems that early agricultural civilizations often elevated the female, while herding peoples worshipped the male as the stronger. It seems logical that the realization of the male role in procreation greatly altered people's religious beliefs. (I'll shut up about the class stuff now.)
While parts of Brown's book are a stretch, there is quite a bit of limited evidence of worldwide goddess worship that lasted possibly tens of thousands of years. If you have any appetite for books with endnotes, I recommend Merlin Stone's When God Was A Woman, Rosalind Miles's Who Cooked The Last Supper, and Gerda Lerner's The Creation of Patriarchy.