I cannot politely say why I think it is that white, Western, and usually male anthropologists feel the need to insist — in the face…
Continue ReadingTo Tend and Befriend, part 1
It’s summertime for me now, and I’m gleefully starting my readings for Fall semester, which doesn’t start for another three or so months — this…
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Later edit: This bibliography has been seriously revised and updated due to professorial input. Check out the new version here. There! That’s all the…
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While Merchant never uses the word ecofeminism in her book, a decade later ecofeminist professors Irene Diamond and Gloria Feman Orenstein deliberately embrace it in…
Continue ReadingTwo by Carol Christ & one by Susan Sered
In 1998, ecofeminist thealogian Carol P. Christ’s Rebirth of the Goddess: Finding Meaning in Feminist Spirituality presents a living and embodied, woman-centered thealogy of Goddess…
Continue ReadingTwo male authors: on indigenous women & permaculture
In a thought-provoking example of Talamantez’ urging to learn from indigenous peoples, East Asian scholar and religious professor Jordan Paper’s 1997 Through the Earth Darkly…
Continue ReadingBrain-candy that isn’t
I read an awful lot of textbooks for classes. I’m fortunate in that most of them are fascinating, but there does come a point where…
Continue ReadingWomanspirit Rising; the Bride of Death; & the Sacred Hoop
Written in the same year, Life’s Daughter/Death’s Bride by Kathie Carlson is an elegant example of both remembering and re-membering primarily the mother and daughter…
Continue ReadingEmbodiment through dancing & drumming
Women’s appreciation of embodiment is not new — simply (deliberately?) forgotten in a more androcentric world. As it slowly re-emerges within society as well as…
Continue ReadingTwo books by Rosemary Radford Ruether
Next is American Christian feminist theologian-scholar Rosemary Radford Ruether’s 2005 Goddesses & the Divine Feminine: A Western Religious History. Ruether’s writing is clear and easy…
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