She Who Changes

Re-imagining the Divine in the World

Carol P. Christ (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2004 | 2004 ed.
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-4039-6083-2 (ISBN)

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Can we re-imagine divine power as deeply related to the changing world? Can we re-imagine the creation of the world as an on-going process of co-creation in which every individual from particles of atoms to human beings plays a part? Can we re-imagine Goddess/God as the most relational of all relational beings? Can we re-imagine the world as the body of Goddess/God? If we can, then we can understand the deeper meaning of female images of divine power, including Goddess, God-She, Sophia and Shekhina. Many traditional understandings of divine power begin with thinly disguised rejections of the female body and connection to the natural world. Women theologians from Jewish, Christian, Goddess and other traditions are re-imagining divine and human power as embodied, embedded in a changing world and deeply related to all beings in the web of life. Drawing on the work of process philosopher Charles Hartshorne, Carol P. Christ offers intellectual foundations for deeply held feelings about the meanings of female images of divine power. This book is addressed to everyone who has ever wondered about the implications of re-imagining God as female.

CAROL P. CHRIST (Ph.D. Yale, 1974) is a pioneer in the study of Women and Religion and in the Goddess and Women's Spirituality movements. The anthologies Womanspirit Rising (1979) and Weaving the Visions (1989) which she co-edited with Judith Plaskow transformed the way religion is understood and taught in North America. Her first book Diving Deep and Surfacing (1980) changed women's lives and became a classic in the study of women and religion. Laugher of Aphrodite (1987) and Odyssey with the Goddess (1995) chart her spiritual and intellectual journey from God to Goddess; while Rebirth of the Goddess (1997) is the first feminist Goddess thealogy. In She Who Changes, CAROL P. CHRIST continues the work she began years ago of providing intellectual foundations for deeply held feelings about the meaning of changing life, the body, relationship, interconnection, and the need for female images of divine power. She has received several fellowships from the National Endowment from the Humanities and has taught at Pomona College, Harvard Divinity School, and Columbia University. In 1987 she resigned a tenured full professorship at San Jose State University to move to Greece, where she has recently become a citizen of her adopted country. She directs Ariadne Institute for the Study of Myth and Ritual, offering Goddess Pilgrimages to Crete and a Sacred Journey in Greece (www.goddessariadne.org). She has been active in feminist, peace, and environmental movements for decades.

Preface - Introduction - Problems with God - Change Is - Touch Is - Re-imagining Power - Life Is Meant to be Enjoyed - If We Find It Not within Ourselves - Reason for Hope - Feminist Spirituality in Process - Afterword: Re-imagining Symbols

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.1.2004
Zusatzinfo	biography
Verlagsort	Gordonsville
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-4039-6083-6 / 1403960836
ISBN-13	978-1-4039-6083-2 / 9781403960832
Zustand	Neuware