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Author : Carol P. Christ
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780415921862
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Mary J. Magoulick
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496837097
Goddess characters are revered as feminist heroes in the popular media of many cultures. However, these goddess characters often prove to be less promising and more regressive than most people initially perceive. Goddesses in film, television, and fiction project worldviews and messages that reflect mostly patriarchal culture (included essentialized gender assumptions), in contrast to the feminist, empowering levels many fans and critics observe. Building on critiques of other skeptical scholars, this feminist, folkloristic approach deepens how our remythologizing of the ancient past reflects a contemporary worldview and rhetoric. Structures of contemporary goddess myths often fit typical extremes as either vilified, destructive, dark, and chaotic (typical in film or television); or romanticized, positive, even utopian (typical in women’s speculative fiction). This goddess spectrum persistently essentializes gender, stereotyping women as emotional, intuitive, sexual, motherly beings (good or bad), precluded from complex potential and fuller natures. Within apparent good-over-evil, pop-culture narrative frames, these goddesses all suffer significantly. However, a few recent intersectional writers, like N. K. Jemisin, break through these dark reflections of contemporary power dynamics to offer complex characters who evince “hopepunk.” They resist typical simplified, reductionist absolutes to offer messages that resonate with potential for today’s world. Mythic narratives featuring goddesses often do, but need not, serve merely as ideological mirrors of our culture’s still problematically reductionist approach to women and all humanity.
Author : Michelle Skye
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780738710808
Meet Danu, the Irish mother goddess of wisdom; Freya, the Norse goddess of love and war; and eleven other Celtic and Norse goddesses very much alive in today's world. Explore each deity's unique mythology and see how she relates to Sabbats and moon rites. Goddess Alive, also includes crafts, invocation rituals, and other magical activities to help you connect with each goddess.
Author : Susan Stanford Friedman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1981-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0253115558
"... a major study of the poetry." -- Sandra M. Gilbert, New York Times Book Review "... the first book-length study to approach H.D. from a feminist perspective.... Psyche Reborn is a valuable book not only for H.D. specialists but also for those interested in twentieth-century intellectual history." -- Cheryl Walker, Signs "... lucid, deeply informed assessment... " -- Joanne Felt Diehl, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature "Indiana University Press should be heartily commended for promoting Psyche Reborn in paperback, hence making this vital critical work more widely available." -- Lesbian and Gay Studies Newsletter "... a richly documented, polemical, and intelligent study... Friedman's is a splendid and rewarding achievement." -- The Year's Work in English Studies
Author : Carl McColman,Kathryn Hinds
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004-12-27
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781601633958
Celtic gods and goddesses are among the most popular of deities revered by today's Neo-Pagans, Witches, Wiccans, and Druids. Figures like Brigid, Cernunnos, Rhiannon, and CuChulainn are honored for their magic, their bravery, and their mythical deeds. Among Pagans, the gods and goddesses of Gaul, Ireland, Wales, and the other Celtic lands rank with the Greek, Roman, Norse, and Egyptian pantheons as the most popular and influential deities in the Neo-Pagan movement. Magic of the Celtic Gods and Goddesses is the first resource available to help Pagans, Witches, and Druids to connect specifically with the Celtic Gods and Goddesses in a truly deep, powerful, and spiritual way. This book will help you: Learn the major Irish, Welsh, and continental Celtic deities. Discover the major myths and lore associated with each deity. Create rituals and magical work appropriate for each deity. Understand the psychological archetypes of each God and Goddess. Forge true and meaningful relationships with the deities for our time. Relate the various gods and goddesses to the Sabbats and Holy Days.
Author : Rachel S. McCoppin
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476649344
It is often assumed that the female characters found in popular folk and fairy tales are little more than inconsequential stereotypes--mostly serving as hapless victims in need of rescue, boring one-dimensional princesses, or egotistical and conniving villains. This book presents more fully-realized portraits of these female characters and the ways in which they actually represent bold and powerful connections to the goddesses of classic mythic narratives. The rich legacy of female goddesses, shamans, queens, and priestesses is in fact preserved and celebrated through these more modern representations, whether as brides who can transform into animals, wise old women who live alone in the deep wilderness, strong warrior maidens, or witches who can conquer and command the elements of nature. In contemplating this revised analysis of female characters within global folktales and fairy tales, readers can see that the goddesses of old have never truly been forgotten.
Author : Elizabeth Brodersen,Michael Glock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317274377
Jungian Perspectives on Rebirth and Renewal brings together an international selection of contributors on the themes of rebirth and renewal. With their emphasis on evolutionary ancestral memories, creation myths and dreams, the chapters in this collection explore the indigenous and primordial bases of these concepts. Presented in eight parts, the book elucidates the importance of indirect, associative, mythological thinking within Jungian psychology and the efficacy of working with images as symbols to access unconscious creative processes. Part I begins with a comparative study of the significance of the phoenix as symbol, including its image as Jung’s family crest. Part II focuses on Native American indigenous beliefs about the transformative power of nature. Part III examines synchronistic symbols as liminal place/space, where the relationship between the psyche and place enables a co-evolution of the psyche of the land. Part IV presents Jung’s travels in India and the spiritual influence of Indian indigenous beliefs had on his work. Part V expands on the rebirth of the feminine as a dynamic, independent force. Part VI analyses ancestral memories evoked by the phoenix image, exploring archetypal narratives of infancy. Part VII focuses on eco-psychological, synchronistic carriers of death, rebirth and renewal through mythic characterisations. Finally, part VIII explores the mythopoetic, visionary dimensions of rebirth and renewal that give literary expression to indigenous people/primordial psyche re-navigated through popular literature. The chapters both mirror and synchronise a rebirth of Jungian and non-Jungian academic interest in indigenous peoples, creation myths, oral traditions and narrative dialogue as the ‘primordial psyche’ worldwide, and the book includes one chapter supplemented by an online video. This collection will be inspiring reading for academics and students of analytical psychology, Jungian and post-Jungian studies and mythology, as well as analytical psychologists, Jungian analysts and Jungian psychotherapists. To access the online video which accompanies Evangeline Rand's chapter, please request a password at http://www.evangelinerand.com/life_threads_orissa_awakenings.html
Author : Saswati Sengupta
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190993252
Mutating Goddesses traces the shifting fortunes of four specific Hindu deities—Manasa, Candi, Sasthi and Laksmi—from the fifteenth century to the present time. It focuses on the goddess-invested tradition of Bengal's Hinduism to argue for a historical evolution/devolution of divinities in tandem with sectarian interests and illumines in the process the knotted correlation of gender, caste and class in the sanctioning of female subjectivities through goddess formation. The critical studies of Hindu goddesses have been dominated by the sastrik perspective deriving from the Sanskrit scriptures authorized by the male Brahman. But there are religious practices and beliefs under the broad rubric of Hinduism that are neither governed by the male Brahman nor articulated in Sanskrit. It is this vibrant laukika archive—considered low from the hegemonic perspective—that Mutating Goddesses explores to realize the politic trafficking between this realm and the sastrik. The book excavates the multiple and layered heritage of the region which includes tribal culture, Buddhism, Tantricism, and so on, as is available in rituals, proverbs, verses, circulating myths, poetic genres and kathas, caste manuals, census records etc to illustrate how tradition is a matter of strategic selection.
Author : Aída Besançon Spencer,Donna F.G. Hailson,Catherine Clark Kroeger,William David Spencer
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725228900
The Goddess Revival is a Christianity Today Book Award Winner, 1996. "All of the authors are clearly sympathetic to the problems women have faced in the church throughout its history. They empathize with women who shun the patriarchal oppression of their churches to turn to goddess spirituality. They are also solidly grounded in the Scriptures, Christian theology and church history. They recognize the bondage imposed by goddess worship. This book presents a scholarly and clear consideration of the issues involved and builds a strong case for Christianity as the most woman-friendly alternative. While providing a comprehensive study of goddess spirituality and examining the roots of the movement, the authors focus primarily on God and the way people have understood God through the centuries--in both paganism and the Judeo-Christian tradition--as both male and female. They demonstrate how the uniqueness of God contrasts with the multiplicity of gods and goddesses in pagan spiritualities, while comparing the values in both traditions that are similar (that is, a search for what is good, inner empowerment, unity, positive social change). In the process of building a clear Christian theology, they gently counter the arguments of their pagan opponents. In the end, the reader is left with a glorious picture of the one true God and a clear apologetic for those in nursing who insist that the Christian God is too oppressive and patriarchal to merit our allegience. The appendixes provide a powerful case study of a young woman drawn into witchcraft. She explains why it appealed to her, then how it enslaved her and destroyed her marriage and other relationships. . . The two final appendixes offer some excellent biblical studies on the issues raised in the book. The total package provides an outstanding resource" -- Journal of Christian Nursing
Author : Carl McColman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 002864266X
Presents a complete idiot's guide to understanding paganism and examines the basic principles of shamanism, druidism, and Wicca as well as the fundamentals of meditation, magic, divination, and spiritual healing.
Author : Lorenzo J. Torres Hortelano
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498570152
Through provocative essays by specialists in different aspects of Japanese culture, this book provides an historical and analytical survey of the presence of Goddesses in Japanese audiovisual culture from its origins to the present day. It shows how these feminine myths are represented in Japan; not only as beneficial or creative deities, but also the archetypal strong or dominant woman that sometimes overshadows masculine figures and heroes, or as influential figures. Therefore, it analyzes this rich dialectic of the feminine and how the audiovisual culture has represented it thus far in film, TV series, and video games made in Japan. While many theories have been proposed to explain the presence of Goddesses in Japan, this book’s focus on audiovisual culture explores how this corpus challenges the traditional conceptions of the feminine as related to Goddesses.
Author : Diane Stein
Publisher : Crossing Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-17
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780307827883
Learn how to create a sacred space and use ritual for empowerment in everyday life, with this classic from Diane Stein.
Author : Phyllis Curott
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001-10-16
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780767910972
The author of Book of Shadows digs deep into the practices and principles of Witchcraft to provide a comprehensive guidebook that anyone—novices and seasoned practitioners alike—can use to incorporate the beauty and power ofWicca into their own daily lives. Phyllis Curott’s first book, Book of Shadows, was an inspirational, spiritual memoir that chronicled her journey from Ivy League-educated, New York City attorney to Wiccan High Priestess. By inviting readers of all faiths to share in her own personal transformation, Phyllis debunked many of the myths surrounding Wicca and revealed it for what it really is: a spiritual movement whose tenets of Goddess worship and reverence for Nature were a great deal more accessible and familiar than she’d ever expected. Far from being just another mechanical spell book, Witch Crafting is the first book to offer readers not only the how-to of Witchcraft, but also the why-to, explaining the profound spiritual tenets behind Wiccan techniques. Filled with both traditional and innovative shamanic practices, Phyllis also provides an empowering new definition of magic and reexamines the ethics under which Witchcraft is practiced, offering a groundbreaking alternative to the Threefold Law. With enchanting stories from Curott’s own experiences, Witch Crafting will also teach you how to: • Master the secret arts of effective spellcasting • Create sacred space and personal rituals • Perform divinations for spiritual insight and earthly success • Tap into the power of altered states, such as dreaming, meditation, prayer, and trance • Keep a magical journal and create your own Book of Shadows Rich with detailed advice for making magic, working with Nature, and finding the Divine within, as well as thought-provoking evaluations of this remarkable spirituality, Witch Crafting is the special volume that you’ve been searching for. Whether you are a beginner or have been practicing Witchcraft for years, whether you worship in a coven or on your own, Witch Crafting is the ideal handbook for you, or anyone seeking to unlock the divine power that makes real magic happen and experience the ecstasy, energy, and gifts of the Universe more fully.
Author : Venus Alistar
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781504363358
Everyone will learn about the twins, who we are together, and what our mission here is. It is part of a sacred agreement between the twins before we entered into this life and is our purpose and mission to help with the earths ascension through elevated states of higher conscious awareness of love and becoming wholesome together in union. Splendid plan! Whether you are newly awakened twin flames or curious to know about the twins and the purpose of the father and mother to return us all into a higher conscious love, you will get helpful insight on how to handle your ascension process and learn what to do during your awakening as discovered by Venus to help with the ascension. This book will help to understand not only about the twin-flame union but also the very powerful awakenings and shifts that happened on 11/11/11 by the god and goddess of the universe to awaken the twin flames, which was a huge portal that opened up to usher in and bring together the new wave of twins and bring them back into their divine and sacred unions all over the earth. Everyone around the world felt this huge shift take place in some way but did not know the reason for what had occurred. The shifting continues to take place today because of the energy that is here, which is twin-flame energy. You will learn what it was like for me and the occurrences that happened from that period through the present and who the twins are as already ascended beings. Their mission in coming together is to bring love and light through our unique talents and individual gifts we share together, and it is needed at this point in time and has been expected for the good of humanity. We bring higher levels of conscious awareness as multidimensional beingsa new paradigm shift. You will learn about our journeys together and apart as weve taken on the struggles of life and awakened to who we are while in this physical reality. You will also learn about the seven basic chakras within the outer (etheric) or subtle body and how it is used to connect to open communication portals within the twins. Also the awakenings taking place will help push us forward in spiritual evolution not only for ourselves but to help others all over the planet. Twin flames for a higher-consciousness love is a walk into divinity.
Author : Bradley P. Beaulieu
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780756414641
The fifth book in The Song of the Shattered Sands series--an epic fantasy with a desert setting, filled with rich worldbuilding and pulse-pounding action. The reign of the kings of Sharakhai has been broken. The blood mage, Queen Meryam, now rules the city along with the descendants of the fabled twelve kings. In the desert, Çeda has succeeded in breaking the asirim's curse. Those twisted creatures are now free, but their freedom comes at great cost. Nalamae lies dead, slain in battle with her sister goddess. Çeda, knowing Nalamae would have been reborn on her death, sets out on a quest to find her. The trail leads Çeda to Sharakhai where, unbeknownst to her, others are searching for Nalamae as well. Çeda's quest to find her forces her into a terrible decision: work with the kings or risk Sharakhai's destruction. Whatever her decision, it won't be easy. Sharakhai is once more threatened by the forces of the neighboring kingdoms. As the powers of the desert vie for control of the city, Çeda, her allies, and the fallen kings must navigate the shifting fates before the city they love falls to the schemes of the desert gods.
