Monday, December 31, 2018

The Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions


I want to announce a truly monumental work, the Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions, published recently  this year by ABC-Clio Publishersand edited by Susan de-Gaia Ph.d.  So many important Voices speak to the Re-Emergence of the Divine Feminine in our world.  It was my privilege to have a small inclusion in the Encyclopedia as well.  There is a hard copy and an EBook as well.  Congratulations to all who participated in this important project, and most especially to Susan de-Gaia for her monumental dedication 
in creating it.
Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions: 
Faith and Culture Across History

 Susan de-Gaia, Editor




Author-Subject List (PARTIAL ONLY)





Headword
Author Category
Contributors
Priestesses and Oracular Women
AFRICAN RELIGIONS
Dashu, Max;
Yoruba Religion
AFRICAN RELIGIONS
Finley, Mackenzie;
Body Art
AFRICAN RELIGIONS
Hahn, Allison;
Life Cycle Ceremonies
AFRICAN RELIGIONS
Hahn, Allison;
Rastafari
AFRICAN RELIGIONS
Hahn, Allison;
Candomble
AFRICAN RELIGIONS
Oleszkiewicz, Malgorzata;
African Religions in Diaspora
AFRICAN RELIGIONS
Razak, Arisika;
Art in Africa
AFRICAN RELIGIONS
Razak, Arisika;
Female Genital Mutilation
AFRICAN RELIGIONS
Team, Victoria;
Sibyls
Ancient Religions
Atkinson, Kenneth;
Diana
Ancient Religions
Bonar, Chance;
Homosexuality
Ancient Religions
Bonar, Chance;
Sappho
Ancient Religions
Christ, Carol;
Shamans in East Asia
Ancient Religions
Dashu, Max;
Hypatia
Ancient Religions
Dr. Vivianne Crowley Ph.D.: SW1
Inanna
Ancient Religions
Foust, Kristan: UTA;
Athena
Ancient Religions
Foust, Kristan;
Daily Lives of Women-Greek Roman
Ancient Religions
Foust, Kristan;
Egyptian Religion
Ancient Religions
Foust, Kristan;
Marriage, Ancient Greek and Roman Religions
Ancient Religions
Foust, Kristan;
Pre-Greek Goddesses in the Greek Pantheon
Ancient Religions
Haarmann, Harald: Inst of Archa
Priestesses and Their Staff in Ancient Greece
Ancient Religions
Haarmann, Harald: Inst of Archa
Sun Goddess
Ancient Religions
Haarmann, Harald: Inst of Archa
Delphic Oracle
Ancient Religions
Kerley, Gary;
Gorgon Medusa
Ancient Religions
Marler, Joan;
Eleusinian Mysteries, Greek and Roman Religio
Ancient Religions
Shipley, Morgan;
Gaea
Ancient Religions
Shipley, Morgan;
Mesopotamian Religion
Ancient Religions
Therese Rodin;
Ninhursaga
Ancient Religions
Therese Rodin;
Writers and Poets, Ancient Mesopotamian
Ancient Religions
Therese Rodin;
Religious Leadership, Ancient Roman Religions
Ancient Religions
Webb, Lewis;
Baha'i_Education
BAHA'I
Crosson, Selena;
Gender Roles
BAHA'I
Eschevarria, Lynn;
Divine Feminine
BAHA'I
Maneck, Susan: 39212;
Tahirih
BAHA'I
Maneck, Susan: 39212;
Women in Baha'i Scriptures
BAHA'I
Maneck, Susan: 39212;
Nuns, Theravada
BUDDHISM
Amore, Roy C.: University of Win
Therigatha
BUDDHISM
Amore, Roy C.: University of Win
Women in Early Buddhism
BUDDHISM
Amore, Roy C.: University of Win
Abortion
BUDDHISM
Bechtold, Brigitte;
Bodhisattvas
BUDDHISM
Bechtold, Brigitte;
Engaged Buddhism
BUDDHISM
Bechtold, Brigitte;
Gender Roles
BUDDHISM
Bechtold, Brigitte;
Ordination
BUDDHISM
Bechtold, Brigitte;
Nichiren
BUDDHISM
Cavaliere, Paola;

Zen BUDDHISM

Dance of Tara BUDDHISM

Feminine Virtues BUDDHISM

Lay Women in Theravada Buddhism BUDDHISM

Buddhism in America BUDDHISM

Pajapati BUDDHISM

Sacred Texts on Women BUDDHISM

Tea Ceremony BUDDHISM

Mahayana BUDDHISM

Women's Buddhist Networks BUDDHISM

Soka Gakkai BUDDHISM

Guan Yin BUDDHISM

Funeral Practices BUDDHISM

Dance BUDDHISM

Female Divinities BUDDHISM

Prajnaparamita BUDDHISM

Tara BUDDHISM

Tantra BUDDHISM

Julian of Norwich CHRISTIANITY

Chastity CHRISTIANITY

Monastic Life CHRISTIANITY

Christianity in America CHRISTIANITY

African American Women CHRISTIANITY

Christianity in Latin America CHRISTIANITY

Abortion CHRISTIANITY

Clothing CHRISTIANITY

Mormonism CHRISTIANITY

Homosexuality in Early to Early Modern Christia CHRISTIANITY

Mother of God CHRISTIANITY

Women in Early Christianity (1 to 300) CHRISTIANITY

Abbesses CHRISTIANITY

Education CHRISTIANITY

Pilgrimage CHRISTIANITY

Women in the Reformation CHRISTIANITY

Mary Magdalene CHRISTIANITY

Mystics CHRISTIANITY

Hildegard of Bingen CHRISTIANITY

Relationship and Social Models in Scripture CHRISTIANITY

and Archaeology

Sophia CHRISTIANITY

Missionaries CHRISTIANITY

Charity CHRISTIANITY

Medieval Women Monastics CHRISTIANITY

Roman Catholic Women Religious CHRISTIANITY

Polygamy CHRISTIANITY

Christianity in Africa CHRISTIANITY

Interfaith Dialogue, Post 9/11 CHRISTIANITY
Cavaliere, Paola;

de Gaia, Susan; Moses, Phyllis; Engelmajer, Pascale; Engelmajer, Pascale;

Foulks, Beverly;

Lee, Kenneth;

Lee, Kenneth;

Lee, Kenneth;

Lehrer, Tyler;

Lehrer, Tyler;

Morris, James;

Ms. Emily B. Simpson; Remoiville, Julie; Shaw, Miranda; Shaw, Miranda; Shaw, Miranda; Shaw, Miranda;

Shaw, Miranda; Lee, Kenneth: C Allen, Amanda;

Amanda Haste;

Amanda Haste;

Auguste, Nicol;

Bailey, Emily; Bartel, Rebecca; Bechtold, Brigitte; Bohleke, Karin;

Burns, William Earl (aka - Burns, Carroll, Charles;

Clark, Patricia;

Coltri, Marzia;

Crown, Nick;

Crown, Nick;

Crown, Nick; Darlage, Adam; de Gaia, Susan;

de Gaia, Susan; Haste, Amanda; Dr. Vivianne Crowley Ph.D.: SW1 Eisler, Riane;

Evans, Kathryn;

Gabryszewska, Maria;

Ganim, Carole;

Ganim, Carole;

Ganim, Carole;

Gullota, Daniel;

Hahn, Allison;

Haney, Marsha;

Anglican/Episcopalian Women Religious
CHRISTIANITY
Haste, Amanda;
Contemporary Women's Monasticism
CHRISTIANITY
Haste, Amanda;
Marriage, Divorce, Widowhood
CHRISTIANITY
Haste, Amanda;
Christianity in Europe
CHRISTIANITY
Magyar, Judit;
Orthodox Christianity
CHRISTIANITY
Magyar, Judit;
Christine de Pizan
CHRISTIANITY
McNary-Zak, Bernadette: Rhode
Stigmatics
CHRISTIANITY
Painter, Cassandra;
Apocrypha
CHRISTIANITY
Peek, Stephanie;
Art, Modern and Contemporary
CHRISTIANITY
Sachs, Hannah;
Fundamentalism
CHRISTIANITY
Sanders, Mary;
Ministers
CHRISTIANITY
Sanders, Mary;
Protestant Denominations
CHRISTIANITY
Sanders, Mary;
Fall, The
CHRISTIANITY
Shipley, Morgan;
Founders
CHRISTIANITY
Voorhees, Amy;
Middle Ages
CHRISTIANITY
Walter, Katherine: College at Bro
Saints
CHRISTIANITY
Walter, Katherine: College at Bro
Women Writers in Early and Medieval Christian CHRISTIANITY
Walter, Katherine: College at Bro
Sex and Gender
CHRISTIANITY
Walter, Katherine;
Widowhood
CHRISTIANITY
Walter, Katherine;
Cult of Female Chastity
CONFUCIANISM
Campbell, Josianne;
Feminine Virtues
CONFUCIANISM
Campbell, Josianne;
Classical Confucianism
CONFUCIANISM
Danner, Lukas;
Books for Women
CONFUCIANISM
de Gaia, Susan;
Filial Piety
CONFUCIANISM
Du, Yue;
Confucian Revivalism
CONFUCIANISM
McClenon, Julia: UCSB;
Motherhood
CONFUCIANISM
Remoiville, Julie;
Women's Changing Roles
CONFUCIANISM
Remoiville, Julie;
Healers
DAOISM
McClenon, Julia: UCSB;
Wu Wei
DAOISM
McClenon, Julia: UCSB;
Goddesses
DAOISM
Perreira, Todd;
Priestesses, Nuns, and Ordination
DAOISM
Perreira, Todd;
Daoism in China
DAOISM
Zhu, Liang;
Draupadi
HINDUISM
Agarwal, Komal;
Vedic Hinduism
HINDUISM
Agarwal, Komal;
Festivals
HINDUISM
Amazzone, Laura;
Pilgrimage
HINDUISM
Amazzone, Laura;
Shakti
HINDUISM
Amazzone, Laura;
Yoginis
HINDUISM
Amazzone, Laura;
Gurus and Saints
HINDUISM
Bhattacharyya, Monoloina;
Aditi
HINDUISM
Campbell, Josianne;
Caste
HINDUISM
Dandekar, Deepra: 12207;
Devadasis
HINDUISM
Dandekar, Deepra;
Household Shrines
HINDUISM
Dandekar, Deepra;
Ideals of Womanhood
HINDUISM
Dandekar, Deepra;
Durga and Kali
HINDUISM
Evans, Kathryn;
Fundamentalism
HINDUISM
Goulet, Nicole;
Renunciation
HINDUISM
Goulet, Nicole;

Devi
HINDUISM
Goulet, T. Nicole: Indiana Univer
Saraswati
HINDUISM
Goulet, T. Nicole: Indiana Univer
Sati
HINDUISM
John Capucci;
Tantra
HINDUISM
Kumar, Pawan;
Lakshmi
HINDUISM
Mitra, Semontee;
Marriage
HINDUISM
Mitra, Semontee;
Prakriti
HINDUISM
Mitra, Semontee;
Sacred Texts on Women
HINDUISM
Mitra, Semontee;
Radha and Gopi Girls
HINDUISM
MoChridhe, Race;
Dance
HINDUISM
Parveen, Rasheda;
Stage of Life Rituals
HINDUISM
Pillai, Rupa;
Matriliny
HINDUISM
Rath, Akshaya: National Inst of T
Bhakti
HINDUISM
Rath, Akshaya;
Arts (Native American)
INDIGENOUS RELIGIONS
Anton, Beata;
Ceremonies (Native American)
INDIGENOUS RELIGIONS
Anton, Beata;
Clothing (Native American)
INDIGENOUS RELIGIONS
Anton, Beata;
Marriage and Social Status (Native American)
INDIGENOUS RELIGIONS
Anton, Beata;
Sacred Spirits (Native American)
INDIGENOUS RELIGIONS
Anton, Beata;
Women Warriors (Native American
INDIGENOUS RELIGIONS
Dry, David;
Ancestors (Native American)
INDIGENOUS RELIGIONS
Evans, Kathryn;
Creation Stories (Native American)
INDIGENOUS RELIGIONS
Evans, Kathryn;
Nature (Native American)
INDIGENOUS RELIGIONS
Evans, Kathryn;
Sacred Place (Native American)
INDIGENOUS RELIGIONS
Evans, Kathryn;
Shamanism in Eurasian cultures
INDIGENOUS RELIGIONS
Haarmann, Harald: Inst of Archa
Shamans in Korea
INDIGENOUS RELIGIONS
Kendall, Laurel: American Museu
Matriarchies
INDIGENOUS RELIGIONS
Mann, Barbara: University of Tol
Activism (Native American)
INDIGENOUS RELIGIONS
Shipley, Morgan;
Medicine Women (Native American)
INDIGENOUS RELIGIONS
Shipley, Morgan;
Kinship (Native American)
INDIGENOUS RELIGIONS
Stover, Dale;
Islam in Africa
ISLAM
Acquah, Lady Jane: ljane26@gm
Hawwa
ISLAM
Agha-Jaffar, Tamara;
Maryam
ISLAM
Agha-Jaffar, Tamara;
Islam in America
ISLAM
Brandon, Alexandra;
Peacemaking
ISLAM
Fitriyah, Lailatul;
Honor
ISLAM
Helms, Barbara;
Saints, Sufi
ISLAM
Helms, Barbara;
Druze
ISLAM
Khaizran, Yusri;
Sufism
ISLAM
Khan, Shahida: National Institute
Ideal Woman
ISLAM
Lob, Elisabetta;
Education
ISLAM
Olomi, Ali;
Islam in the Middle East
ISLAM
Rahman, Farhana;
Polygamy
ISLAM
Rahman, Farhana;
Prophets Wives
ISLAM
Rahman, Farhana;
Purdah
ISLAM
Rahman, Farhana;
Qur'an and Hadith
ISLAM
Rahman, Farhana;
Feminism
ISLAM
Rannveig Jetne Haga;
Coverings
ISLAM
Tayyen, Sana;

Hagar
ISLAM
Tayyen, Sana;
Marriage and Divorce
ISLAM
Tayyen, Sana;
Pilgrimage
ISLAM
Tayyen, Sana;
Reform
ISLAM
Tayyen, Sana;
Shari'a
ISLAM
Tayyen, Sana;
Women's Organizations
ISLAM
Tayyen, Sana;
Female Genital Mutilation
ISLAM
Team, Victoria;
Islam in Europe
ISLAM
Teodorescu, Adriana;
Diaspora
ISLAM
Valentina Fedele;
Fatima
ISLAM
Valentina Fedele;
Jina
JAINISM
Clines, Gregory;
Monastics and Nuns
JAINISM
Clines, Gregory;
Lay Women
JAINISM
de Gaia, Susan;
Female Deities
JAINISM
Mitra, Semontee;
Ritual
JAINISM
Mukherjee, Asha;
Bat Mitzvah
JUDAISM
Adelman, Penina;
Ancient Judaism
JUDAISM
Atkinson, Kenneth: Univ of Nort
Salome Alexandra
JUDAISM
Atkinson, Kenneth;
Shabbat
JUDAISM
Balogh, Amy;
Feminist and Women's Movements
JUDAISM
Beitler, Ruth: U.S. Military Acade
Israel
JUDAISM
Beitler, Ruth: U.S. Military Acade
Marriage and Divorce
JUDAISM
Beitler, Ruth: U.S. Military Acade
Rosh Hodesh
JUDAISM
Berrin, Susan;
American Denominations 1850 to Present
JUDAISM
Breitzer, Susan Roth: susan.breit
Judaism in America
JUDAISM
Breitzer, Susan Roth: susan.breit
Women and Work
JUDAISM
Breitzer, Susan Roth: susan.breit
Modern and Contemporary Judaism
JUDAISM
Breitzer, Susan;
Festivals and Holy Days
JUDAISM
Fadden, John;
Hebrew Bible
JUDAISM
Fadden, John;
Rabbis
JUDAISM
Fadden, John;
Mitzvah
JUDAISM
Goldhaber-Gordon, Ilana;
Lilith
JUDAISM
Grenn, D'vorah: The Lilith Institu
Priestesses
JUDAISM
Grenn, Dvorah;
Goddesses
JUDAISM
Hammer, Jill;
Synagogue
JUDAISM
Mayne, Hannah;
Peacemaking
JUDAISM
Messina, Adele;
Performance
JUDAISM
Pascal, Julia;
Judaism in Europe
JUDAISM
Roos, Lena: Uppsala University;
Sephardic and Mizrachi Judaisms
JUDAISM
Roos, Lena: Uppsala University;
Education
JUDAISM
Roos, Lena;
Food
JUDAISM
Roos, Lena;
Sex and Gender
JUDAISM
Roos, Lena;
Shabbat
JUDAISM
Sachs, Hannah;
Holocaust
JUDAISM
Saidel, Rochelle;
Midrash
JUDAISM
Sasso, Sandy;
Hasidism
JUDAISM
Shipley, Morgan;
Kabbalah
JUDAISM
Shipley, Morgan;



Tuesday, December 25, 2018

Pax Gaia



Pax Gaia (the Peace of Earth) is the most compelling challenge of our time. Geologian, Thomas Berry introduced this theme after 9/11 in an essay reflecting the urgent need to embrace a cosmology of truly comprehensive Gaian  peace. It is a peace that transcends Pax Romana (the peace of an empire) and Pax Humana (peace among humans). 

"We are called as an evolving humanity to the Great Work that engenders Pax Gaia. To this end we create and foster deep cultural therapies that address the deep cultural pathology of our time that has brought about such ecological damage."


 (Thomas Berry, Evening Thoughts, 2006) 
 
"Only now can we see with clarity that we live not so much in a cosmos (a place) as in a cosmogenesis (a process) -- scientific in its data, mythic in its form."  
~ The Universe Story by Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry  

The Winter Solstice was perhaps the earliest universal holy day, celebrated in different ways   throughout the world from the earliest days of human culture.  The Solstice is the ancient center of the Holiday Season and our New Year.   When language was young, when even the gods and goddesses had not yet taken human forms in the human imagination, but ran instead with deer in the forest, flew with the wings of crows, or were glimpsed nameless from the awed depths of every numinous pool, sensed as Presence in the womb depths of caves........ even then, the Return of the Light was a holy day, a day of celebration. 


Long ago ancestors lit fires to welcome the "shining god" who was the sun returning from mysterious underworld depths. They built stones or made circles or created doorways to be aligned with the sun's pathway. They lit fires as sympathetic magic, fires to light and imitate the Sun's passage (which is why we still light candles, and Christmas lights, today, although no one remembers.........)

Welcoming the Sun, they left offerings of food to show their gratitude, and invented songs or danced throughout the longest cold night, encouraging, helping the Sun on its  difficult journey to return to the world, and to the promise of new life.

I remember at this time of the Holy/Wholly/Holidays that holy days begin among our most ancient, instinctual roots, taproots that reach down, deeply entwined within the visible and invisible web of  Gaia's life

Planet Earth turns her face toward her star again, circling in brilliant orbit, bearing every evolving, responsive, living, infinitely intertwined be-ing within her fragile, exquisite azure skin on her long journey.   

Perhaps we sensed, as the sun rose on the Winter Solstice,  that pre-verbal, instinctual knowing, found hidden beneath the pages of any book written with five fingered hands, beneath each inscribed layer of words, signs, hieroglyphs, pictures in jet or ochre or sepia, luminous beneath the oldest pages.  A veneer peels away, revealing a pentimento, an ancient heartbeat, shared again with all beings that keep vigil on the long night of the winter Solstice, and celebrate the Return of the Light with many different religious traditions.  


I pledge allegiance

to the soil of Turtle Island,

and to the beings
who thereon dwell
one ecosystem in diversity
under the sun
With joyful
interpenetration for all.


Gary Snyder