Journey Towards the Goddess
'Journey Towards the Goddess' is a personal narrative tracing the writer's path from the space left by a Christian faith that has become irrelevant, through a series of earth-based, feminine-orientated experiences and brief spiritual encounters with non-human life forms and with the n...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Sage
2003
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Feminist theology
Year: 2003, Volume: 12, Issue: 1, Pages: 11-35 |
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Summary: | 'Journey Towards the Goddess' is a personal narrative tracing the writer's path from the space left by a Christian faith that has become irrelevant, through a series of earth-based, feminine-orientated experiences and brief spiritual encounters with non-human life forms and with the non-physical world, towards an openness to the divine feminine in its pre-Christian and post-Christian guises. Citing Quaker sources (the author is a convinced and practising Quaker) as well as Starhawk, the anthropologist Felicitas Goodman and feminist theologians such as Mary Condren and Beverly Wildung Harrison, she arrives at a conviction that goddess theology is not only valid but may be an essential component of a morally responsible spiritual outlook in the twenty-first century. The author is a poet and fic tion writer, and has also written two books that offer the non-judgmental life narrative as a way of spiritual understanding. |
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ISSN: | 1745-5189 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Feminist theology
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/096673500301200102 |