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Goddess movement, the Glossary

The Goddess movement is a revivalistic Neopagan religious movement which includes spiritual beliefs and practices that emerged predominantly in the Western world (North America, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand) during the 1970s.^[1]

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Abrahamic religions

The Abrahamic religions are a grouping of three of the major religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) together due to their historical coexistence and competition; it refers to Abraham, a figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, the Christian Bible, and the Quran, and is used to show similarities between these religions and put them in contrast to Indian religions, Iranian religions, and the East Asian religions (though other religions and belief systems may refer to Abraham as well).

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Activism

Activism (or advocacy) consists of efforts to promote, impede, direct or intervene in social, political, economic or environmental reform with the desire to make changes in society toward a perceived greater good.

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Agriculture

Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry for food and non-food products.

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Amsterdam

Amsterdam (literally, "The Dam on the River Amstel") is the capital and most populated city of the Netherlands.

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Anti-nuclear movement

The anti-nuclear movement is a social movement that opposes various nuclear technologies.

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Archetype

The concept of an archetype appears in areas relating to behavior, historical psychology, and literary analysis.

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Astrology

Astrology is a range of divinatory practices, recognized as pseudoscientific since the 18th century, that propose that information about human affairs and terrestrial events may be discerned by studying the apparent positions of celestial objects.

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Athena

Athena or Athene, often given the epithet Pallas, is an ancient Greek goddess associated with wisdom, warfare, and handicraft who was later syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Babalon

Babalon (also known as the Scarlet Woman, Great Mother or Mother of Abominations) is a goddess found in the occult system of Thelema, which was established in 1904 with the writing of The Book of the Law by English author and occultist Aleister Crowley.

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Bertha Eckstein-Diener

Bertha Eckstein-Diener (18 March 1874, Vienna – 20 February 1948, Geneva), also known by her American pseudonym as Helen Diner, was an Austrian writer, travel journalist, feminist historian and intellectual.

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Bill Moyers

Bill Moyers (born Billy Don Moyers; June 5, 1934) is an American journalist and political commentator.

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Carol P. Christ

Carol Patrice Christ (December 20, 1945 – July 14, 2021) was a feminist historian, thealogian, author, and foremother of the Goddess movement.

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Celtic mythology

Celtic mythology is the body of myths belonging to the Celtic peoples.

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Changing of the Gods

Changing of the Gods: Feminism and the End of Traditional Religions is a non-fiction book written by a psychologist of religion and a feminist theologian Naomi Goldenberg.

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Charge of the Goddess

The Charge of the Goddess (or Charge of the Star Goddess) is an inspirational text often used in the neopagan religion of Wicca.

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Chichester

Chichester is a cathedral city and civil parish in West Sussex, England.

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Christianity

Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz

The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz (Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz anno 1459) is a German book edited in 1616 in Strasbourg.

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Climate change

In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.

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Cosmology

Cosmology is a branch of physics and metaphysics dealing with the nature of the universe, the cosmos.

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Creation myth

A creation myth or cosmogonic myth is a type of cosmogony, a symbolic narrative of how the world began and how people first came to inhabit it.

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Crone

In folklore, a crone is an old woman who may be characterized as disagreeable, malicious, or sinister in manner, often with magical or supernatural associations that can make her either helpful or obstructive.

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Deity

A deity or god is a supernatural being considered to be sacred and worthy of worship due to having authority over the universe, nature or human life.

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Demeter

In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Demeter (Attic: Δημήτηρ Dēmḗtēr; Doric: Δαμάτηρ Dāmā́tēr) is the Olympian goddess of the harvest and agriculture, presiding over crops, grains, food, and the fertility of the earth.

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Demon

A demon is a malevolent supernatural entity.

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Diana (mythology)

Diana is a goddess in Roman and Hellenistic religion, primarily considered a patroness of the countryside and nature, hunters, wildlife, childbirth, crossroads, the night, and the Moon.

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Dianic Wicca

Dianic Wicca, also known as Dianic Witchcraft, and, to some also as "Dianism," "Dianic Feminist Witchcraft," or simply "Feminist Witchcraft"' is a modern pagan goddess tradition focused on female experience and empowerment. Goddess movement and Dianic Wicca are 1970s in modern paganism and feminist spirituality.

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Divination

Divination is the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of an occultic ritual or practice.

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Dominator culture

Dominator culture refers to a model of society where fear and force maintain rigid understandings of power and superiority within a hierarchical structure.

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Doreen Valiente

Doreen Edith Dominy Valiente (4 January 1922 – 1 September 1999) was an English Wiccan who was responsible for writing much of the early religious liturgy within the tradition of Gardnerian Wicca.

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Eclecticism

Eclecticism is a conceptual approach that does not hold rigidly to a single paradigm or set of assumptions, but instead draws upon multiple theories, styles, or ideas to gain complementary insights into a subject, or applies different theories in particular cases.

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Ecofeminism

Ecofeminism is a branch of feminism and political ecology. Goddess movement and Ecofeminism are feminism and history.

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Egyptian hieroglyphs

Egyptian hieroglyphs were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt for writing the Egyptian language.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Cady; November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century.

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Elizabeth Gould Davis

Elizabeth Gould Davis (June 23, 1910 – July 30, 1974) was an American librarian who wrote a feminist book called The First Sex.

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Empowerment

Empowerment is the degree of autonomy and self-determination in people and in communities.

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Eternal feminine

The eternal feminine, a concept first introduced by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe at the end of his play Faust (1832), is a transcendental ideality of the feminine or womanly abstracted from the attributes, traits and behaviors of a large number of women and female figures.

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Femininity

Femininity (also called womanliness) is a set of attributes, behaviors, and roles generally associated with women and girls.

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Feminism

Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes.

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Feminist theology

Feminist theology is a movement found in several religions, including Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism, Neopaganism, Baháʼí Faith, Judaism, Islam, Christianity and New Thought, to reconsider the traditions, practices, scriptures, and theologies of those religions from a feminist perspective.

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Feminist Theology (journal)

Feminist Theology is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers four times a year in the field of Theology.

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First-wave feminism

First-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity and thought that occurred during the 19th and early 20th century throughout the Western world. Goddess movement and First-wave feminism are feminism and history.

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Gaia

In Greek mythology, Gaia (Γαῖα|, a poetic form of, meaning 'land' or 'earth'),,,. also spelled Gaea, is the personification of Earth.

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Gaia hypothesis

The Gaia hypothesis, also known as the Gaia theory, Gaia paradigm, or the Gaia principle, proposes that living organisms interact with their inorganic surroundings on Earth to form a synergistic and self-regulating, complex system that helps to maintain and perpetuate the conditions for life on the planet.

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Gender

Gender includes the social, psychological, cultural and behavioral aspects of being a man, woman, or other gender identity.

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Gerald Gardner

Gerald Brosseau Gardner (13 June 1884 – 12 February 1964), also known by the craft name Scire, was an English Wiccan, author, and amateur anthropologist and archaeologist.

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Globalization

Globalization, or globalisation (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), is the process of interaction and integration among people, companies, and governments worldwide.

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Goddess

A goddess is a female deity.

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Grammatical gender

In linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not related to the real-world qualities of the entities denoted by those nouns.

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Great Goddess hypothesis

The Great Goddess hypothesis theorizes that, in Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, and/or Neolithic Europe and Western Asia and North Africa, a singular, monotheistic female deity was worshipped. Goddess movement and Great Goddess hypothesis are matriarchy.

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Greco-Roman mysteries

Mystery religions, mystery cults, sacred mysteries or simply mysteries, were religious schools of the Greco-Roman world for which participation was reserved to initiates (mystai).

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Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology into the broader designation of classical mythology.

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Gynocentrism

Gynocentrism is a dominant or exclusive focus on women in theory or practice. Goddess movement and Gynocentrism are matriarchy.

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Hathor

Hathor (lit, Ἁθώρ, ϩⲁⲑⲱⲣ, Meroitic) was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion who played a wide variety of roles.

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Hecate

Hecate is a goddess in ancient Greek religion and mythology, most often shown holding a pair of torches, a key, or snakes, or accompanied by dogs, and in later periods depicted as three-formed or triple-bodied.

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Heide Göttner-Abendroth

Heide Göttner-Abendroth (born February 8, 1941, in Langewiesen, Germany) is a German feminist advocating matriarchy studies (also modern matriarchal studies), focusing on the study of matriarchal or matrilineal societies. Goddess movement and Heide Göttner-Abendroth are matriarchy.

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Henotheism

Henotheism is the worship of a single, supreme god that does not deny the existence or possible existence of other deities--> that may be worshipped.

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Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics

HERESIES: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics was a feminist journal that was produced from 1977 to 1993 by the New York–based Heresies Collective.

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Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (Ordo Hermeticus Aurorae Aureae), more commonly the Golden Dawn (Aurora Aurea), was a secret society devoted to the study and practice of occult Hermeticism and metaphysics during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Hermeticism

Hermeticism or Hermetism is a philosophical and religious system based on the purported teachings of Hermes Trismegistus (a Hellenistic conflation of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth).

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Hindus

Hindus (also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma.

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Horned God

The Horned God is one of the two primary deities found in Wicca and some related forms of Neopaganism.

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Horus

Horus, also known as Hor, in Ancient Egyptian, is one of the most significant ancient Egyptian deities who served many functions, most notably as the god of kingship, healing, protection, the sun, and the sky.

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Ian Hodder

Ian Richard Hodder (born 23 November 1948, in Bristol) is a British archaeologist and pioneer of postprocessualist theory in archaeology that first took root among his students and in his own work between 1980 and 1990.

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Idiosyncrasy

An idiosyncrasy is a unique feature of something.

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Immanence

The doctrine or theory of immanence holds that the divine encompasses or is manifested in the material world.

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Inanna

Inanna is the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of love, war, and fertility.

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Isis

Isis was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world.

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Jacqueline "Jackie" Lee Kennedy Onassis (July 28, 1929 – May 19, 1994) was an American writer, book editor, and socialite who served as the first lady of the United States from 1961 to 1963, as the wife of former president John F. Kennedy.

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James George Frazer

Sir James George Frazer (1 January 1854 – 7 May 1941) was a Scottish social anthropologist and folkloristJosephson-Storm (2017), Chapter 5.

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James Mellaart

James Mellaart FBA (14 November 1925 – 29 July 2012) was an English archaeologist and author who is noted for his discovery of the Neolithic settlement of Çatalhöyük in Turkey. Goddess movement and James Mellaart are matriarchy.

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Janet Farrar

Janet Farrar (born Janet Owen on 24 June 1950) is a British teacher and author of books on Wicca and Neopaganism.

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Jean Shinoda Bolen

Jean Shinoda Bolen (born June 29, 1936) is an American psychiatrist, Jungian analyst and author.

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Jews

The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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Johann Jakob Bachofen

Johann Jakob Bachofen (22 December 1815 – 25 November 1887) was a Swiss antiquarian, jurist, philologist, anthropologist, and professor of Roman law at the University of Basel from 1841 to 1844. Goddess movement and Johann Jakob Bachofen are matriarchy.

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John Benjamins Publishing Company

John Benjamins Publishing Company is an independent academic publisher in social sciences and humanities with its head office in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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Joseph Campbell

Joseph John Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987) was an American writer.

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Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion

The Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (JSSR) is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell in the United States under the auspices of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, dedicated to publishing scholarly articles in the social sciences, including psychology, sociology, and anthropology, devoted to the study of religion.

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Kali

Kali (काली), also called Kalika, is a major Hindu goddess associated with time, change, creation, power, destruction and death in Shaktism.

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Keynote

A keynote in public speaking is a talk that establishes a main underlying theme.

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Kurgan hypothesis

The Kurgan hypothesis (also known as the Kurgan theory, Kurgan model, or steppe theory) is the most widely accepted proposal to identify the Proto-Indo-European homeland from which the Indo-European languages spread out throughout Europe and parts of Asia.

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Lakshmi

Lakshmi (sometimes spelled Laxmi) also known as Shri, is one of the principal goddesses in Hinduism.

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Leadership

Leadership, both as a research area and as a practical skill, encompasses the ability of an individual, group, or organization to "", influence, or guide other individuals, teams, or entire organizations.

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Madonna (art)

In art, a Madonna is a representation of Mary, either alone or with her child Jesus.

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Magic (supernatural)

Magic is an ancient practice rooted in rituals, spiritual divinations, and/or cultural lineage—with an intention to invoke, manipulate, or otherwise manifest supernatural forces, beings, or entities in the natural world.

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Margaret Murray

Margaret Alice Murray (13 July 1863 – 13 November 1963) was an Anglo-Indian Egyptologist, archaeologist, anthropologist, historian, and folklorist.

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Marian devotions

Marian devotions are external pious practices directed to the person of Mary, mother of Jesus, by members of certain Christian traditions.

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Marija Gimbutas

Marija Gimbutas (Marija Birutė Alseikaitė-Gimbutienė,; January 23, 1921 – February 2, 1994) was a Lithuanian archaeologist and anthropologist known for her research into the Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of "Old Europe" and for her Kurgan hypothesis, which located the Proto-Indo-European homeland in the Pontic Steppe. Goddess movement and Marija Gimbutas are matriarchy.

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Mary Daly

Mary Daly (October 16, 1928 – January 3, 2010) was an American radical feminist philosopher and theologian.

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Mary Esther Harding

Mary Esther Harding (1888–1971) was a British-American Jungian analyst who was the first significant Jungian psychoanalyst in the United States.

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Mary Magdalene

Mary Magdalene (sometimes called Mary of Magdala, or simply the Magdalene or the Madeleine) was a woman who, according to the four canonical gospels, traveled with Jesus as one of his followers and was a witness to his crucifixion and resurrection.

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Mary, mother of Jesus

Mary was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of Jesus.

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Matilda Joslyn Gage

Matilda Joslyn Gage (Joslyn; March 24, 1826 – March 18, 1898) was an American writer and activist.

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Matriarchy

Matriarchy is a social system in which positions of responsibility, dominance and privilege are held by women. Goddess movement and Matriarchy are feminism and history.

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Matrifocal family

A matrifocal family structure is one where mothers head families and fathers play a less important role in the home and in bringing up children.

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Matrilineality

Matrilineality is the tracing of kinship through the female line. Goddess movement and Matrilineality are matriarchy.

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Max Dashu

Maxine Hammond Dashu (born 1950), known professionally as Max Dashu, is an American feminist historian, author, and artist.

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Merlin Stone

Merlin Stone (born Marilyn Jacobson; September 27, 1931 – February 23, 2011) was an American author, artist and academic. Goddess movement and Merlin Stone are feminist spirituality and matriarchy.

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Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent.

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Modern paganism

Modern paganism, also known as contemporary paganism and neopaganism, spans a range of new religious movements variously influenced by the beliefs of pre-modern peoples across Europe, North Africa, and the Near East.

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Monica Sjöö

Monica Sjöö (31 December 1938 – 8 August 2005) was a Swedish-born British-based painter, writer and radical anarcho/ eco-feminist who was an early exponent of the Goddess movement.

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Monism

Monism attributes oneness or singleness to a concept, such as to existence.

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Monotheism

Monotheism is the belief that one god is the only deity.

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Mother goddess

A mother goddess is a major goddess characterized as a mother or progenitor, either as an embodiment of motherhood and fertility or fulfilling the cosmological role of a creator- and/or destroyer-figure, typically associated the Earth, sky, and/or the life-giving bounties thereof in a maternal relation with humanity or other gods. Goddess movement and mother goddess are feminist spirituality.

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Motherpeace Tarot

The Motherpeace Tarot is a deck of tarot cards inspired by the Goddess movement and second-wave feminism. Goddess movement and Motherpeace Tarot are feminist spirituality.

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Naomi Goldenberg

Naomi Ruth Goldenberg is a professor at the University of Ottawa.

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National Film Board of Canada

The National Film Board of Canada (NFB; Office national du film du Canada (ONF)) is Canada's public film and digital media producer and distributor.

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Native American religions

Native American religions are the spiritual practices of the Native Americans in the United States.

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Neolithic Europe

The European Neolithic is the period from the arrival of Neolithic (New Stone Age) technology and the associated population of Early European Farmers in Europe, (the approximate time of the first farming societies in Greece) until –1700 BC (the beginning of Bronze Age Europe with the Nordic Bronze Age).

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New Age

New Age is a range of spiritual or religious practices and beliefs which rapidly grew in Western society during the early 1970s.

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New religious movement

A new religious movement (NRM), also known as alternative spirituality or a new religion, is a religious or spiritual group that has modern origins and is peripheral to its society's dominant religious culture.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Nile

The Nile (also known as the Nile River) is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa.

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North America

North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.

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Nut (goddess)

Nut (Nwt, Ⲛⲉ), also known by various other transcriptions, is the goddess of the sky, stars, cosmos, mothers, astronomy, and the universe in the ancient Egyptian religion.

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Occult

The occult (from occultus) is a category of esoteric or supernatural beliefs and practices which generally fall outside the scope of organized religion and science, encompassing phenomena involving a 'hidden' or 'secret' agency, such as magic and mysticism.

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Old Europe (archaeology)

Old Europe is a term coined by the Lithuanian archaeologist Marija Gimbutas to describe what she perceived as a relatively homogeneous pre-Indo-European Neolithic and Copper Age culture or civilisation in Southeast Europe, centred in the Lower Danube Valley.

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Panentheism

Panentheism ("all in God", from the Greek label, label and label) is the belief that the divine intersects every part of the universe and also extends beyond space and time.

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Pantheism

Pantheism is the philosophical and religious belief that reality, the universe, and nature are identical to divinity or a supreme entity.

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Patriarchy

Patriarchy is a social system in which positions of dominance and privilege are held by men.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Crystal City, Virginia.

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Peace movement

A peace movement is a social movement which seeks to achieve ideals such as the ending of a particular war (or wars) or minimizing inter-human violence in a particular place or situation.

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Persephone

In ancient Greek mythology and religion, Persephone (Persephónē), also called Kore (the maiden) or Cora, is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter.

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Politics

Politics is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status.

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Polytheism

Polytheism is the belief in or worship of more than one god.

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Prehistoric Europe

Prehistoric Europe refers to Europe before the start of written records, beginning in the Lower Paleolithic.

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Primus inter pares

Primus inter pares is a Latin phrase meaning first among equals.

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Process theology

Process theology is a type of theology developed from Alfred North Whitehead's (1861–1947) process philosophy, but most notably by Charles Hartshorne (1897–2000), John B. Cobb (b. 1925), and Eugene H. Peters (1929–1983).

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Ramprasad Sen

(1723/1718 – c. 1775) was a Hindu Shakta poet and saint of 18th-century Bengal.

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Riane Eisler

Riane Tennenhaus Eisler (born July 22, 1931) is an Austrian-born American systems scientist, futurist, attorney, and author who writes about the effect of gender and family politics historically on societies, and vice versa. Goddess movement and Riane Eisler are matriarchy.

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Robert Graves

Captain Robert von Ranke Graves (24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985) was an English poet, soldier, historical novelist and critic. Goddess movement and Robert Graves are matriarchy.

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Romanticism

Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century.

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Rosetta Stone

The Rosetta Stone is a stele of granodiorite inscribed with three versions of a decree issued in 196 BC during the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt, on behalf of King Ptolemy V Epiphanes.

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Rowman & Littlefield

Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an American independent academic publishing company founded in 1949.

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Rule of Three (Wicca)

The Rule of Three (also Three-fold Law or Law of Return) is a religious tenet held by some Wiccans, Neo-Pagans and occultists.

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Ruth Mountaingrove

Ruth Mountaingrove (February 21, 1923 – December 18, 2016) was an American radical lesbian feminist photographer, poet and musician, known for her photography documenting the lesbian land movement in Southern Oregon.

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Sage Publishing

Sage Publishing, formerly SAGE Publications, is an American independent academic publishing company, founded in 1965 in New York City by Sara Miller McCune and now based in the Newbury Park neighborhood of Thousand Oaks, California.

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Saint

In Christian belief, a saint is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of holiness, likeness, or closeness to God.

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Saint Peter

Saint Peter (died AD 64–68), also known as Peter the Apostle, Simon Peter, Simeon, Simon, or Cephas, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ and one of the first leaders of the early Christian Church.

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Saraswati

Saraswati (सरस्वती), also spelled as Sarasvati, is the Hindu goddess of knowledge, music, flowing water, abundance and wealth, art, speech, wisdom, and learning.

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Second-wave feminism

Second-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity that began in the early 1960s and lasted roughly two decades, ending with the feminist sex wars in the early 1980s and being replaced by third-wave feminism in the early 1990s. Goddess movement and Second-wave feminism are feminism and history.

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Secularism

Secularism is the principle of seeking to conduct human affairs based on naturalistic considerations, uninvolved with religion.

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Shaktism

Shaktism (translit-std) is a major Hindu denomination in which the godhead or metaphysical reality is considered metaphorically to be a woman.

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Shamanism

Shamanism or samanism is a religious practice that involves a practitioner (shaman or saman) interacting with the spirit world through altered states of consciousness, such as trance.

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Shekhinah

Shekhinah is the English transliteration of a Hebrew word meaning "dwelling" or "settling" and denotes the presence of God in a place.

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Society for the Scientific Study of Religion

The Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (founded in 1949) was formed to advance research in the social scientific perspective on religious institutions and experiences.

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Spiral dance

The spiral dance, also called the grapevine dance and the weaver’s dance, is a traditional group dance practiced in Neopaganism in the United States, especially in feminist Wicca and the associated "Reclaiming" movement.

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Spirituality

The meaning of spirituality has developed and expanded over time, and various meanings can be found alongside each other.

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Starhawk

Starhawk (born Miriam Simos on June 17, 1951) is an American feminist and author. Goddess movement and Starhawk are feminist spirituality.

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Stewart Farrar

Frank Stewart Farrar (28 June 1916 – 7 February 2000) was an English screenwriter, novelist and prominent figure in the Neopagan religion of Wicca, which he devoted much of his later life to propagating with the aid of his seventh wife, Janet Farrar, and then his friend Gavin Bone as well.

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Sylvia Brinton Perera

Sylvia Brinton Perera is an author and a Jungian analyst.

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The Atlantic

The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher.

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The Golden Bough

The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (retitled The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion in its second edition) is a wide-ranging, comparative study of mythology and religion, written by the Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer. Goddess movement and the Golden Bough are matriarchy.

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The Hebrew Goddess

The Hebrew Goddess is a 1967 book by Jewish historian and anthropologist Raphael Patai, in which the author argues that historically, the Jewish religion had elements of polytheism, especially the worship of goddesses and a cult of the mother goddess. Goddess movement and the Hebrew Goddess are matriarchy.

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The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory

The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory: Why An Invented Past Will Not Give Women a Future is a 2000 book by Cynthia Eller that seeks to deconstruct the theory of a prehistoric matriarchy. Goddess movement and the Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory are matriarchy.

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The Power of Myth

The Power of Myth is a book based on the 1988 PBS documentary Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth.

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The White Goddess

The White Goddess: a Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth is a book-length essay on the nature of poetic myth-making by the English writer Robert Graves. Goddess movement and the White Goddess are matriarchy.

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The Witch-Cult in Western Europe

The Witch-Cult in Western Europe is a 1921 anthropological book by Margaret Murray, published at the height of the success of Frazer's Golden Bough. Certain university circles subsequently celebrated Margaret Murray as the expert on western witchcraft, though her theories were widely discredited.

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Thealogy

Thealogy views divine matters through feminine perspectives including but not limited to feminism. Goddess movement and Thealogy are feminist spirituality.

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Theodosius I

Theodosius I (Θεοδόσιος; 11 January 347 – 17 January 395), also called Theodosius the Great, was a Roman emperor from 379 to 395.

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Third-wave feminism

Third-wave feminism is a feminist movement that began in the early 1990s, prominent in the decades prior to the fourth wave. Goddess movement and Third-wave feminism are feminism and history.

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Traditional African religions

The beliefs and practices of African people are highly diverse, including various ethnic religions.

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Transcendence (religion)

In religion, transcendence is the aspect of existence that is completely independent of the material universe, beyond all known physical laws.

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Tree of life (Kabbalah)

The tree of life (ʿēṣ ḥayyim or label) is a diagram used in Rabbinical Judaism in kabbalah and other mystical traditions derived from it.

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Triple Goddess (Neopaganism)

The Triple Goddess is a deity or deity archetype revered in many Neopagan religious and spiritual traditions.

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Typology (archaeology)

In archaeology, a typology is the result of the classification of things according to their physical characteristics.

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University of California, Santa Cruz

The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California.

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Upper Paleolithic

The Upper Paleolithic (or Upper Palaeolithic) is the third and last subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age.

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Vedas

The Vedas are ancient Sanskrit texts of Hinduism. Above: A page from the ''Atharvaveda''. The Vedas are a large body of religious texts originating in ancient India.

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Walnut Creek, California

Walnut Creek is a city in Contra Costa County, California, United States, located in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, about east of the city of Oakland.

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Western esotericism

Western esotericism, also known as esotericism, esoterism, and sometimes the Western mystery tradition, is a term scholars use to classify a wide range of loosely related ideas and movements that developed within Western society.

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Western Europe

Western Europe is the western region of Europe.

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Western world

The Western world, also known as the West, primarily refers to various nations and states in the regions of Australasia, Western Europe, and Northern America; with some debate as to whether those in Eastern Europe and Latin America also constitute the West.

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Wicca

Wicca, also known as "The Craft", is a modern pagan, syncretic, earth-centered religion. Goddess movement and Wicca are modern pagan traditions.

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Wiccan Rede

The Wiccan Rede is a statement that provides the key moral system in the neopagan religion of Wicca and certain other related witchcraft-based faiths.

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Wiley-Blackwell

Wiley-Blackwell is an international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons.

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Witch-cult hypothesis

The witch-cult hypothesis is a discredited theory that the witch trials of the Early Modern period were an attempt to suppress a pagan religion that had survived the Christianization of Europe.

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Woman

A woman is an adult female human.

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WomanSpirit

WomanSpirit (Fall 1974 - Summer 1984) was a lesbian feminist quarterly founded by Ruth and Jean Mountaingrove and produced collectively near Wolf Creek, Oregon. Goddess movement and WomanSpirit are feminist spirituality.

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Women and Spirituality: The Goddess Trilogy

Women and Spirituality is a series of three documentaries focusing on women's spirituality in the Western World at the end of the 20th century and the Goddess movement.

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Worship

Worship is an act of religious devotion usually directed towards a For many, worship is not about an emotion, it is more about a recognition of a God.

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Zsuzsanna Budapest

Zsuzsanna Emese Mokcsay (born 1940) is a Hungarian-American writer, activist, playwright and songwriter living in America who writes about feminist spirituality and Dianic Wicca under the pen name Zsuzsanna Budapest or Z. Budapest. Goddess movement and Zsuzsanna Budapest are feminist spirituality.

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3

3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit.

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References

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