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	Internet Book of Shadows: The Goddess Movement (Denver Post)
		Even driving the highway, you'll notice discreet bumper-stickers like "Goddess Bless." In Goddess spirituality, the cycles of nature are worshipped and celebrated -- winter, spring, summer and autumn -- and are viewed as metaphors for birth, growth, fading and death.
		The Goddess movement is "attracting a wide range of people," explains Starhawk, who was raised Jewish, "from a middle-aged women who have lived very conventional lives to young, punk anarchists." Lois Yackley, 49, a Denver elementary-school teacher and member of Rebecca's Goddess group, sees her involvement as an outgrowth of her mental health.
		So the Goddess is becoming more prevalent." Robyn, who also was raised Jewish and now practices in the Wiccan tradition, adds that, "Women are looking for their power.
	www.sacred-texts.com /bos/bos536.htm (1030 words)

	Goddess Unmasked (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		If something as improbable as the Goddess movement can experience such striking success, we must acknowledge that large numbers of people are ready to turn away from established patterns of life and thought and embrace truly radical alternatives.
		The goddess movement is the only new religion which has made sexuality and gender politics, two of the dominant social concerns of the late twentieth century, central to its very existence and claims.
		In 1950, no one had heard of Goddess spirituality; now, as we approach the end of the millennium, the Goddess is being proclaimed and celebrated in important sectors of modern society, and she shows no sign of retreating to her previous state of obscurity.
	www.boundless.org /1999/departments/pages/a0000032.html (2612 words)

	BBC - Religion & Ethics - Goddess movement
		On the altar was a statue of a goddess known as Gliten, with dolphins on her dress.
		The Goddess is said to be present in all creation, in trees and flowers, streams and lakes, the sun and the earth.
		For me the Goddess is identified with the Earth, not just in the sense of the ground, but the Earth as the planet Earth, as the whole living being that we're part of, which itself is part of a whole living Universe.
	www.bbc.co.uk /religion/religions/paganism/subdivisions/goddess.shtml (1313 words)

	Goddess
		Many enthusiasts of the recent "Great Goddess" movement are looking to archaeology in the hopes that it will provide validation to their theories of what they would consider a former religious and societal utopia.
		The leading pioneer of the goddess movement is the archaeologist Marija Gimbutas, who has spent thirty years studying patterns and symbols of cult objects and also developed the field she refers to as "archeomythology," which embodies the fields of archaeology, comparative mythology, and folklore.
		The Goddess as a symbol of death is represented as an owl as represented in Hungary and Lemnos by owl-shaped burial urns with umbilical cords or human vulva dating back to 3000 B.C. Death can also be seen in the form of the stiff nude.
	uts.cc.utexas.edu /~gloria/Goddess.html (2888 words)

	Goddess Worship
		The goddess is embraced by witchcraft, radical feminism, the occult, and the liberal church.
		The symbolism of the Goddess is not a parallel structure to the symbolism of God the Father.
		Whether the individual seeks the goddess through witchcraft, the feminist movement, the New Age, or the liberal church, he or she is beginning a quest to understand and discover the "higher self." The higher self, often referred to as the "god self," is believed to be pure truth, deep wisdom.
	www.leaderu.com /orgs/probe/docs/goddess.html (2689 words)

	DailyOM - Goddess Movement
		But as politics evolved, these goddesses were forgotten or relegated to positions as wives or concubines, and their energy was lost to time.
		Goddess spirituality is diverse, incorporating both the loving and the terrible, the dark and the light, the maiden and the crone.
		But each seeker in the goddess movement is encouraged to find their own personal goddess, and to recapture the potent energy embodied by feminine spirituality in order to experience first hand a greater personal fulfillment and to discover the goddess within.
	www.dailyom.com /articles/2005/341.html (434 words)

	The Scholars and the Goddess (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Wicca, sometimes known as the Goddess movement, Goddess spirituality, or the Craft, appears to be the fastest-growing religion in America.
		By the early 1900s scholars generally agreed that the great goddess and earth mother had reigned supreme in ancient Mediterranean religions, and was toppled only when ethnic groups devoted to father gods conquered her devotees.
		If the ancients did not literally worship a mother goddess, perhaps they worshipped her in a metaphoric way, by recognizing the special female capacity for bearing and nourishing new life—a capacity to which we might attach the word "goddess" even if prehistoric peoples did not.
	www.godspy.com /culture/The-Scholars-and-the-Goddess.cfm (3426 words)

	The Goddess and the Church
		The goddess, or Great Mother, has existed since the beginning of time...it is out of the primordial depths of her womb that the Universe and all life is born.
		The goddess is embraced by witchcraft, feminism, the occult, and the liberal church.
		The serpent was a symbol of the goddess worshipers.
	www.leaderu.com /orgs/probe/docs/godd-chu.html (2965 words)

	James Furman
		Nevertheless, movement II is in two distinct parts with an interlude which leads to a close of plaintive music similar to that of the introduction.
		The third movement, Incantation, is a "spell that is sung in a magic ritual." This spell is first depicted with a twelve-tone melody which is interrupted gently with a staccato figure in the lower register.
		Movement I is a through-composed Fantasy which foreshadows stylistic gestures used in the second and third movements.
	www.candlewood.net /furman/p3.html (2202 words)

	The Role of Feminism In The New Age Movement & Goddess Religion
		It has been proposed that the new religious movement toward goddess worship is the result of the feminist movement.
		The opportunity to become leaders or even founders of their own religious movements is the source of the attraction for many women to cults (Stark and Bainbridge, 1985).
		It is my opinion that the empowerment of the feminist movement gave women the opportunity to seek out alternate and less “main stream” forms of spirituality, rather than this spiritual movement being the result of a “femi-nazi” mentality.
	www.goddessmoon.org /Women/RoleofFeminism.shtml (2312 words)

	White Goddess
		Even the possibility of turning from the concept of God to the concept of Goddess or Goddesses is a mind and heart shaking process for many women since it allows them to enter the area of the divine as normative beings, rather than as inferior or subordinate adjuncts to the male.
		This is the most fundamental attraction of the Goddess movement to women, and while Graves was certainly not the first to write about the goddess or goddesses, his work hit the imagination of women in the sixties and seventies as the early movement as getting into its stride.
		These were taken up by the popular movement, since they fitted well into the frame provided by Graves and his predecessors; but coming from an eminent archaeologist they gave rise to particular irritation by the archaeologists, historians and prehistorians at the use being made of their disciplines.
	www.asphodel-long.com /html/white_goddess.html (3436 words)

	The Embodied Goddess
		The Goddess Movement and feminist witchcraft are routinely criticized as being "white women's movements," and while Caucasians are in the majority, the criticism is not valid among the core members in the two groups I studied.
		This was a Goddess who was a virgin in Goldenberg's (1979) sense of being independent of her lovers, not one who was necessarily by nature sexually inactive, a definition popular with feminist witches.
		Another area for study involves the differences in the Goddess Movement between essentialists, who believe there are universal and specific feminine and masculine qualities rooted in biology, and social constructionists, who argue that gender roles and distinctions are artificial, that they are socially constructed and imposed.
	www.csulb.edu /~wgriffin/publications/embodied.html (6396 words)

	herchurch
		The Lutheran Feminist/Womanist Movement exists to celebrate the feminine persona of God/dess and dimensions of the sacred as expressed in faith, worship, learning, mutual care, and acts of justice.
		God/dess of struggle and blessing, we thank you that you are so willing to meet us in love here and now, as you meet our mothers and fathers, partners and lovers, siblings and children, friends and strangers on their faith journeys, as you entered our human life in Jesus Christ-Sophia.
		It is precisely because she is not distant that the goddess needs to be recognized as a part of God.” Unless and until the God we have known can (also) be called “Goddess,” the specter of the male God will still be with us...
	www.herchurch.org (881 words)

	Goddess Worship - Christian Information
		The revival of the goddess promises to bring a blunting of distinction between male and female while affirming bisexuality, lesbianism, homosexuality, and androgyny.
		They are primed to move on to the goddess and have nothing within to resist this movement.
		Goddess worship and the "sacred feminine" have become the new watch words for a growing number of young women.
	www.christianinformation.org /article.asp?artID=96 (2484 words)

	Paganism: The Goddess Movement and Feminist Spirituality
		In Goddess spirituality, the cycles of nature are worshipped and celebrated - winter, spring, summer and autumn - and are viewed as metaphors for birth, growth, fading and death.
		The Goddess movement is "attracting a wide range of people," explains Starhawk, who was raised Jewish, "from a middle-aged women who have lived very conventional lives to young, punk anarchists."
		Lois Yackley, 49, a Denver elementary-school teacher and member of Rebecca's Goddess group, sees her involvement as an outgrowth of her mental health.
	www.spiritualbookstore.com /Paganism_Goddess_Feminist_Spirituality.htm (1110 words)

	Amazon.com: Goddess Unmasked: The Rise of Neopagan Feminist Spirituality: Books: Philip G. Davis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		"Goddess Unmasked" is a readable and informative discussion of neopagan religious ideas, particularly those around the practice of "goddess worship." Goddess worship, nature worship, and the practice of "Wicca" (which has been in the news lately due to a controversy about Wiccans in the Army) are closely related concepts, as Philip Davis shows.
		But, as interesting as the treatment of the present-day goddess movement was to me, my favorite thing about the book is that it contains so many stories about eccentric geniuses, dreamers and scamsters from the last couple of centuries who have contributed in some way to the modern religious scene.
		What's missing in "Goddess Unmasked" is a study of the growing popularity of the worship of Mary, and the throngs that turn up to see apparitions in plate glass windows.
	www.amazon.com /Goddess-Unmasked-Neopagan-Feminist-Spirituality/dp/0965320898 (2921 words)

	Amazon.com: Daughters of the Goddess: Studies of Healing, Identity and Empowerment: Books: Wendy Griffin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		A collection of original essays examining the Goddess Movement in its many facets, Daughters of the Goddess explores the ways women have abandoned Western patriarchal religions and have embraced a spirituality based in a celebration of the Goddess and the female body as sacred text.
		A collection of original research and essays examining the Goddess Movement in its many facets, Daughters of the Goddess explores the ways women in the United States and Britain have abandoned the Western patriarchal religions and have embraced a spirituality based in a celebration of the Goddess and the female body as sacred text.
		In addition, Raphael does not see the calling and invoking of Goddess names as necessarily "worship," but rather a praxis movement that helps women "name, own, and realize" their power through the invocation of that which is archaic enough to be equally available for power and personalization by women.
	www.amazon.com /Daughters-Goddess-Studies-Identity-Empowerment/dp/0742503488 (1964 words)

	Apologetics research resources on religious cults and sects - Grace Ministries, Groothuis, Gender-Inclusive Bibles, Etc.
		The Mother Goddess -- whose three primary roles are mother, maiden, and crone -- is represented by and associated with the moon and its three phases: waxing, full, and waning.
		While goddess followers are generally resurrecting a female-centered form of pagan worship, the oft-used term "goddess movement" is something of a misnomer.
		The worshipping or invoking or experiencing of the Goddess (or goddesses), however she (or they) is conceived of by the worshipper.
	www.apologeticsindex.org /g00.html (2322 words)

	Goddessing: A Goddess / Pagan Blog
		My ministry consists of publishing MatriFocus Cross-Quarterly (a zine); developing Matrifocus [dot] Net to bring voices of the Goddess Movement to the blogosphere; teaching; peer counseling; dream interpretation; performing rites of passage and doing divination work for community members; Saturn and Chiron Return chart casting and interpretation; and web activism.
		Goddessing is a recent contribution to Goddess vocabulary, following on from Mary Daly's suggestion that Deity is too dynamic, too much in process, changing continually, to be a noun, and should better be spoken as a Verb (following Buckminster Fuller's "God is a verb").
		From the bottom half of the goddess' body, he created earth: streams flowing from her eyes became the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, her head became the mountains, and her "udder" formed the foothills, all geographical features familiar to the ancient Mesopotamians.
	www.goddessmystic.com /blog/2005/05/tiamat-primordial-goddess.html (1378 words)

	Wimmin, Wiccans, and Goddess Worship
		The goddess movement, also called the women-spirit movement, apparently considers its first major gathering to have been a conference attended by about 1,200 women at the University of Massachusetts in late 1975...
		The connection between the environmental (back-to-nature) movement, the women's movement (the matriarchal cult), and witchcraft is undeniable, though many persons involved may be unaware of this.
		As a matter of fact, one of the manifestations of the mother goddess is the “Green One” or vegetation god—the corn spirit, the grain that is recut and planted; the seed that dies with every harvest and is reborn each spring (i.e., the ecological order).
	allanturner.com /ss09.html (5806 words)

	The Allure of the Goddess
		“The Goddess has now emerged from the dark moon phase of a long-term lunar cycle at a time when humanity is collectively passing through a dark phase in the precessional age solar cycle.
		Barbara Watterson, author of Gods of Ancient Egypt, notes that Isis was "known as ‘The Goddess of Many Names’ and indeed she is found as a form of every great female deity from Nut and Hathor to the Greek moon goddess Astarte." [p.
		"The importance of mother goddesses in the various mythologies of paganism is so evident that even a shallow description could easily fill entire volumes…The mother goddess received different names and external appearances, but, in substance, she was always the same.
	www.crossroad.to /articles2/05/teichrib/goddess.htm (1565 words)

	beliefnet: Are the 'ancient' rituals of the Goddess movement 20th-century creations? by Charlotte Allen
		Many come to Wicca after reading "The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess" (1979), a best-selling introduction to Wiccan teachings and rituals written by Starhawk (née Miriam Simos), a Witch (the term she prefers) from California.
		In 1998 Philip G. Davis, a professor of religion at the University of Prince Edward Island, published "Goddess Unmasked: The Rise of Neopagan Feminist Spirituality," which argued that Wicca was the creation of an English civil servant and amateur anthropologist named Gerald B. Gardner (1884-1964).
		Davis wrote that the origins of the Goddess movement lay in an interest among the German and French Romantics--mostly men--in natural forces, especially those linked with women.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/63/story_6307.html (1683 words)

	Goddessing
		The Cauldron of Events alone networks hundreds of Goddess gatherings throughout the European and American continents — and its standard of accuracy is perfectionist: articles, research, artwork, poems cover the interests of the Goddess-speaking world, making it a joy to read.
		Through Goddessing I get a sense of the global network across the planet — that we are all connected in what we do.
		The international dimensions of the Goddess movement are nowhere made more clear than in its welcome pages.
	www.goddessmandala.com /goddessing_magazine/goddessing_issues.html (746 words)

	Fitness the Goddess Way: Movement vs. Exercise - Exercise
		The "biggies" of the women's movement such as Gloria Steinem, today's best-selling authors and who's who of empowering women doing inspiring work were.
		During one of the panels on body-image, Jane Fonda, the American icon of fitness, who we all look at and wonder what it must be like to have such a "perfect" body, said it has taken her until age 61 to grow to love her body.
		Change and harmony, is the basis of yin and yang and of Tai Chi.The principles of yin and yang are reflected in the form the sequence of movements that make up the Tai Chi discipline.The form is actually a sequence of movements that flow continuously representing both change and harmony.
	yourconstitution.com /exercise/5471.php (2394 words)

	Om Sakthi Spiritual Movement
		Here you will find a spiritual movement which wants to help people get back in touch with their spiritual roots and offers a means for people of all religions to come together as equals and serve God and Humanity together.
		It is a philosophy which embraces all religions with the guidance of Goddess Adhiparasakthi.
		Also known as the Adhiparasakthi Movement, the purpose of the Movement is to bring Adhiparasakthi's message to the world and serve humanity through the work of our Guru and the devotees, or Sakthis.
	www.omsakthi.org (425 words)

	Abbotsford BC - Pole Dancing - Goddess Movement - thegoddessmovement.com
		Nothing has changed my body and how I view it as much as this movement.
		When I began studying this beautiful movement of sensual dance and pole work, I was five months pregnant with my amazing son, Aiden.
		I continued on after he was born and watched my body mold and change.
	www.thegoddessmovement.com (131 words)

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