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Since the 1970s, Goddess Spirituality has emerged as a recognizable international cultural movement. [17] In 1978 Carol P. Christ's widely reprinted essay "Why Women Need the Goddess," [18] which argues in favor of the concept of there having been an ancient religion of a supreme goddess, was presented as the keynote address to an audience of over 500 at the "Great Goddess Re-emerging ...
A matriarchal religion is a religion that emphasizes a goddess or multiple goddesses as central figures of worship and spiritual authority. The term is most often used to refer to theories of prehistoric matriarchal religions that were proposed by scholars such as Johann Jakob Bachofen , Jane Ellen Harrison , and Marija Gimbutas , and later ...
This Sixth Source encompasses: "Spiritual teachings of earth-centered traditions which celebrate the sacred circle of life and instruct us to live in harmony with the rhythms of nature." [1] Ecofeminist and neopagan Starhawk has been a pivotal advocate for CUUPS. She was influential in the Unitarian Universalist Association to include nature ...
Goddess movement – Modern revival of divine feminine or female-centered spirituality; Gynocentrism – Dominant or exclusive focus on women in theory or practice; New religious movement – Religious community or spiritual group of modern origin; Pachamama – Andean fertility goddess; Shaktism – Goddess-centric sect of Hinduism
Earth-centered religion or nature worship is a system of religion based on the veneration of natural phenomena. [1] It covers any religion that worships the earth, nature, or fertility deity, such as the various forms of goddess worship or matriarchal religion. Some find a connection between earth-worship and the Gaia hypothesis. Earth ...
Patricia Monaghan (February 15, 1946, – November 11, 2012) was a poet, a writer, a spiritual activist, and an influential figure in the contemporary women's spirituality movement. [2] Monaghan wrote over 20 books on a range of topics including Goddess spirituality, earth spirituality, Celtic mythology, the landscape of Ireland, and techniques ...
Goddess spirituality, which is also known as the Goddess movement, is a pagan religion in which a singular, monotheistic Goddess is given predominance. Goddess Spirituality revolves around the sacredness of the female form, and of aspects of women's lives that adherents say have been traditionally neglected in Western society, such as ...
Shekhinah Mountainwater (October 24, 1938 - August 11, 2007 [1]) was a musician, author, teacher, priestess of Aphrodite, [2] and a key figure in the Goddess movement.She is well known on the west coast of the United States, but has a significant following throughout America and abroad for her music, writing, teaching, WomanRunes, Moonwheels, Goddess ritual, and spiritual and social activism.