Journey Towards the Goddess
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14948614 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alison Leonard (0000-0001-5098-7139, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 11-35 |
| Publication date | 2003-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Theology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0966-7350 • E-ISSN: 1745-5189 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/096673500301200102 |
| OpenAlex | W1964348438 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Journey Towards the Goddess' is a personal narrative tracing the writer's path from the space left by a Christian faith that has become irrelevant, through a series of earth-based, feminine-orientated experiences and brief spiritual encounters with non-human life forms and with the non-physical world, towards an openness to the divine feminine in its pre-Christian and post-Christian guises. Citing Quaker sources (the author is a convinced and practising Quaker) as well as Starhawk, the anthropologist Felicitas Goodman and feminist theologians such as Mary Condren and Beverly Wildung Harrison, she arrives at a conviction that goddess theology is not only valid but may be an essential component of a morally responsible spiritual outlook in the twenty-first century. The author is a poet and fic tion writer, and has also written two books that offer the non-judgmental life narrative as a way of spiritual understanding
Aesthetics · Art · Christian faith · Conviction · Faith · Literature · Narrative · Openness to experience · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Theology · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics · Religious studies · Social Psychology · Theological Perspectives and Practices
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2009 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |