![]() Re-riting woman : Dianic Wicca and the feminine divine by Kristy S. A mix of academic and practical approaches, elite and popular sources, textual study and fieldwork, and British and American contexts, this book will be useful in women and religion classes, and should be owned by every college library."-Rachel Fall, Religious Studies Review This collection is strong through the caliber of the individual essays―on the roots of feminist spirituality, the painful discord between radical feminism and paganism, the social composition of women spirit communities, the lives of Wiccan high priestesses, and hands-on ritual directives the authors also complement and even contradict one another, with some describing goddesses as patriarchally constructed and others finding them healing. ![]() "This volume is a readable, useful, and methodologically varied collection of thirteen original essays on Western 'daughters of the goddess'―'Witches, neo-pagans, pagans, goddesses, goddess women, spiritual feminists, Gaians, members of the Fellowship of Isis, druids, and none of these.' The first ten chapters present current research on feminist spiritualities the last three describe some of their teachings. ![]()
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