Ancient Goddesses for Modern Times or New Goddesses from Ancient Times?
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/ijsnr.37402Keywords:
goddess worship, goddess feminism, popular literature, popular culture, ancient Crete, Robert Graves, Jacquetta Hawkes, Carol P. ChristAbstract
This paper deals with the way the goddess(es) of ancient Crete and Greece are imagined and reappropriated in the feminist spirituality movement. It offers an overview over the different metamorphoses of these ancient goddesses in the twentieth century, and takes a closer look at the goddess-related work of Carol P. Christ.
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