Introduces the Goddess religion and discusses its application today.
Introduces the Goddess religion and discusses its application today.
Draws on religious, cultural, and archaeological sources to recreate the Goddess religion that is humanity's heritage. Now, with a new introduction and artwork, this text argues that the religion of the Goddess--which is tied to the cycles of women's bodies, the seasons, the pha…
Introduction -- The circle of Aradia Dianic witches : organization and her story -- The Dianic religion : philosophy, thealogy, ethics, and practice -- In their own words : circle of Aradia and the goddess -- The Dianic seasonal rituals -- Luce Irigaray's Le féminin -- Ritual ef…
Introduction -- The circle of Aradia Dianic witches : organization and her story -- The Dianic religion : philosophy, thealogy, ethics, and practice -- In their own words : circle of Aradia and the goddess -- The Dianic seasonal rituals -- Luce Irigaray's Le féminin -- Ritual ef…
Re-riting Woman is an ethnographic study of Dianic Wicca, a modern Pagan religion in which the divine is solely feminine. Kristy S. Coleman explores Dianic Witchcraft, what it really means to practice Wicca today, and how our understanding of womanhood can change with the experi…
An ethnographic study of Dianic Wicca. Its subject, Circle of Aradia, is a branch of the religion based in the Los Angeles area. This religion--of, by, and for women--conceives the Divine as exclusively female, and has infused feminism into Wicca worldwide. Coleman combines ethn…
For as long as humans have sought god, we have found the goddess. Ruling over the imaginations of our earliest civilizations, she played a critical spiritual role as a keeper of nature's fertile powers and an assurance of the next sustaining havest. As people began to migrate ac…