Pagan, goddess, mother

"This anthology calls Pagan and Goddess mothering into focus by highlighting philosophies and experiences of mothers in these spiritual movements and traditions. Pagan and Goddess spirituality are distinct, yet overlapping and diverse communities, with much to say about deity as mother, and about human mothers in relationship to deity. Authors share creative voices, stories, and scholarship from the forefront of Pagan- and Goddess- centred home, in which divine mothers, Goddesses, diverse female embodiments, and generative life cycles are honoured as sacred. Authors inquire into how their spirituality impacts the perceived value and experiences of mothers themselves, while generating new ways of imagining and enacting motherhood in spiritual and daily life. Pagan, Goddess, Mother opens spaces for dialogue in areas such as how Pagan- and Goddess- centred mothers engage in, and are impacted by, their spiritual leadership through practices of ceremony, ritual, magic, and priestessing. Authors consider mothers' lived connections with their children, family life, and themselves, through nature, the Earth, and mothering as a spiritual practice. Chapters reflect upon the ways that Pagan- and Goddess- identified mothers creatively navigate daily interactions with dominant religions, the public sphere, community leadership and activism--facing the challenges of such while forging new pathways for spirited wellbeing in mothering and family life."--

Section I. Priestess, witch, artists, midwife: mother stories -- Mamapriestess / Molly Remer -- Finding my footing as a witch and a mother / Sarah Rosehill -- Remothering and the goddess / Asia Morgenthaler -- Minks / Elizabeth Cunningham -- "Call unto thy soul": a reflexive autoethnography of a pagan, priestess, goddess-worshipper, and mother / Alys Einion -- Section II. Scholarship from pagan goddess motherlines -- Pagan mothering, body sovereignty, and consent culture / Christine Hoff Kraemer -- I do not want to be a goddess - Kusumita Mukherjee Debnath -- The path of the cold hearth-stone: reflections on sex, saturn, and solitary working / Georgia van Raalte -- Section III. Empowering spirited mother-dauther lineages -- The spiritual dimension of mother-daughter groups: healing with Artemis, Demeter, and Persephone / Laura Zegel -- My Persephone / Jennifer Lawrence -- The thread. From mother to daughter to grandmother: mothers talk to their daughters, from mythical times to the birth of history / Arabella von Arx -- Goddess is mother love / Nané Jordan and Chandra Alexandre -- Death and the mother: integrating death into a pagan family life / Cory Ellen Gatrall.