She Rises: What… Goddess Feminism, Activism and Spirituality? Volume 3 (Main Book)
(See She Rises Volume 1 and She Rises Volume 2)
Editors Deanne Quarrie, D.Min., Christine Courtade Hirsch, Ph.D., Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Ph.D.
Publication Date August 15, 2019
ISBN 9781090361004
Pages 409
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She Rises: What… Goddess Feminism, Activism and Spirituality? Volume 3 (Sectional Booklet, which contains three chapters on poetry, art and ritual from the main book)
ISBN 9781537490892
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Description She Rises: What… Goddess Feminism, Activism and Spirituality? is the third volume in the She Rises trilogy after She Rises: Why Goddess Feminism, Activism and Spirituality? Volume 1 (2015) and She Rises: Why Goddess Feminism, Activism and Spirituality? Volume 2 (2016). The present volume continues on the path prepared by the two earlier volumes and takes the Goddess feminist activist movement to a new horizon. Creativity and connectivity are the hallmarks of this volume. Our 59 authors have tailored the question, What… Goddess Feminism, Activism and Spirituality? to convey their insights and to address the importance and urgency of Goddess feminist activism amidst the current crises on the global context that affects all beings within the very eco-system. We in this volume collectively embrace a capacity of connectivity with other sisters and brothers across borders. Our message is that Goddess feminist activists are healing, nurturing and transforming ourselves and the world. We are born stronger. We are ever more grounded, committed, daring, creative, and fiercely focused. We are the trees that are crisscrossed at the root! This book presents a loom that interweaves colorful tapestries of insights, experiences, visions, research articles, poems, artworks, rituals, plays and creative activities across disciplinary boundaries. Our readers may sense a phenomenon through this book.
59 Authors:
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Check out some of what our Authors say:
Activism begins in the chambers of our own hearts, cultivating the seeds of self-love and self-appreciation. To be strong we must cultivate love for ourselves. — CINDY MORRIS
Relinquishing the old self is an identified task in the grief process ––unique to each individual––for the mother and anyone who has lost a loved one. -– Diane Martin, Ph.D.
How do we reclaim our body’s truth: the TRUTH of our bodies as Divine? — REV. DIANNA RITOLA
Being in alignment with the Goddess, in a simple and direct way, is to be attuned with nature, with its rhythms and its manifestations. The moon’s energy, for instance, can be a vital resource for our own. — NORIS BINET
When you find your spiritual home, that place where things feel right and uncomfortably perfect, it changes you and everything around you: your worldview, your view of yourself, your view of those around you, your view of those who used to be around. — ANGELA KUNSCHMANN
The Goddess, our Divine Mother, is the eternal midwife, guardian, and healer. She is the guide through life’s transitions. — BELINDA K. LASHEA
I feel big changes coming. Not Apocalyptic earth changes, though climate change is definitely real, but societal ones – the Goddess is about to shuffle Her cards and things are about to be rearranged, redefined, and we’re going to build it stronger this time around. — MORGAINE SWANN
I say “yes” to writing, telling the truth, embracing the Goddess, claiming our freedom as women, working for causes we believe in, and being our authentic selves beyond the realm of those cultural or regional expectations that limit us. — ELLEN J. PERRY
A feminist spirituality must necessarily be a spirituality of “we,” not “me.” — HEARTH MOON RISING
We must also come to realize that with anger and divisive backlash between men and women we will get nowhere in solving our current predicament, as men as well as women are suffering the consequences of the patriarchal structures on which we are basing our lives. — AMINA RODRIGUEZ
So my encounter with Mary Magdalene has awakened in me a desire to know the truth. It has awakened in me a sense of justice. It has awakened me to the fact that greater social powers, often disguised as the ‘leaders’ of society, manipulate the truth to their advantage, that they want some of us to be disempowered. — JOANNA KUJAWA, Ph.D.
I didn’t realise that this journey was going to be so messy, so distressing, and so rewarding, but I seemed to have been blessed by strong, outspoken and often more educated women – their education teaching us both that immersion in patriarchal institutional learning had its up sides and it down sides, just as the organic way of lived curiosity has its ups and down, too. — LOUISE HEWETT
I listen to inner guidance that also comes from the earth. The earth speaks within me. I touch and see and I know. Touching a tree, touching water, I know what I can’t put into words. Sometimes words come, or a sense of peace and intense love. Lately I’ve noticed the voice at my home, the hill on which we live centering on a beaver pond, belongs to the beavers, their presence and wisdom. I listen and learn. — TINA MINKOWITZ
Our intuition is our most potent and primal magic. It is our connection to our creative power, to our divine feminine essence, and to Spirit. — SUZETTE WEST
Can you sacrifice your material desires and replace these with the truest desire of your own soul – to be at one with our perfect Earth and with yourself by silently singing the poetry of your soothing love? — DEBORAH HOLLINS
This was a really exciting time for me as a teacher. My students were not only learning how to research, but how to question, which can be a harder skill to master. — ERICA HOLMES STARKS
I believe the unconscious speaks in images and when we participate in a ritual, using symbols, pictures, colors, elements, and gestures, we are alerting the unconscious that we want to change our patterns of behavior and elicit its co-operation. We are stating in a non-language format what we want to set in motion. — JYOTI WIND
Although the existence of a male principle is necessary for the continuation of life, its dominant position is checked by the female principle, demonstrating the superiority of the womb – the mother principle. — DEEPAK SHIMKHADA
Many women want a vision of deity that affirms who they are at this very moment as opposed to some ultimate reality that transcends gender. — KAREN NELSON VILLANUEVA, Ph.D.
Once we recognize that we are sacred beings and one with our Source, as well as everything else around us, the connections begin to grow. We take ourselves out into nature. We learn to really “see” what is around us. We learn that everything can speak to us, tell us what we need to know, if we listen. We study our past, digging deeply into our ancestors’ spiritual past, wanting to know who their gods and goddesses were, and we actively engage with them in our own lives. — Deanne Quarrie, D. Min.
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Editors
Deanne Quarrie, D. Min.
Deanne Quarrie. D. Min. has served as a Priestess of the Goddess for thirty years. She is the author of five books and the founder of the Apple Branch – A Dianic Tradition where she teaches courses in Feminist Dianic Witchcraft, Northern European Witchcraft and Druidism. She is the founder of Global Goddess, a worldwide organization which began in 2002 and is open to all women who honor some form of the female divine and where they love to say, “Goddess Women helping women worldwide.” She publishes the Global Goddess Oracle which has been published online since 2003.
Christine Courtade Hirsch, Ph. D.
Department of Communication Studies, SUNY Oswego
Chris is an associate professor in the department of Communication Studies at a state school. Her undergraduate degree was in English and Communication Arts, her MA in Organizational Communication, and her PhD in Rhetoric, where she studied feminism, domestic violence, and how stories make arguments and change society. She is, heart and soul, a teacher, which means she is a lifelong learner, anxious to learn about the Craft.
Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Ph.D.
Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Ph.D. is scholar, activist, and advocate of Magoism, anciently originated tradition that venerates Mago as the Great Goddess. She earned her MA and Ph.D. in Religion with emphasis on Feminist Studies from Claremont Graduate University, CA. She also studied toward an MA degree in East Asian Studies at UCLA, CA. Hwang has taught for universities in California and Missouri, U.S.A. Since 2012, Dr. Hwang has founded and directed The Mago Work whose branches include the Return to Mago E-Magazine (http://magoism.net), Mago Academy (http://magoacademy.org), and Mago Books (https://www.magobooks.com). Together with Mago Sisters, she also founded Gynapedia (https://gynapedia.magoacademy.org) and Mago Pool Circle (https://mpc.magoacademy.org) to broaden The Mago Work. She co-edited and published She Rises: Why Goddess Feminism, Activism, and Spirituality? Volume 1 (Mago Books, 2015), She Rises: How Goddess Feminism, Activism and Spirituality? Volume 2 (Mago Books, 2016) as well as Celebrating Seasons of the Goddess (Mago Books, 2017). Also authored The Mago Way: Re-discovering Mago, the Great Goddess from East Asia (Mago Books, 2015).
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