Institute for Thealogy & Deasophy

The Institute for Thealogy and Deasophy will post information related to recent and past articles that relate to thealogy and deasophy, as well as books and book reviews that concern feminist spirituality. If you would like more information on related links to other scholarly or religious organizations, conferences, and other scholarly periodicals that focus on the meaning of the Goddess(es) or general Goddess spirituality, please click on "Links."

Articles

The following book and journal articles are recommended for anyone interested in the discourses of thealogy, deasophy, and feminist spirituality:

Athlaus-Reid, M. (2005). From the Goddess to Queer Theology: The State We Are In Now. Feminist Theology: The Journal of the Britain & Ireland School of Feminist Theology, 13(2).

Christ, C. (2002). Feminist Re-Imaginings of the Divine and Hartshorne's God: One and the Same? Feminist Theology: The Journal of the Britain & Ireland School of Feminist Theology. 11(1).

Christ, C. (2004). Whose History Are We Writing? Reading Feminist Texts with a Hermeneutics of Suspicion. Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion. 20(2).

Christ, C. (2005). Musings on the Goddess and Her Cultural Despisers: Provoked by Naomi Goldenberg. Feminist Theology: The Journal of the Britain & Ireland School of Feminist Theology. 13(2).

Christ, C. (2005) Does Feminism Need A Metaphysic? Towards a Process Paradigm. Feminist Theology: The Journal of the Britain & Ireland School of Feminist Theology (13)3.

Christ, C. & Rountree, K. (2006). Humanity in the Web of Life. Environmental Ethics. 28(2).

Christ, C. (2007). Theological and Political Implications of Re-Imagining the Divine as Female. Political Theology. 8(1)

Clack, B. (1999). Thealogy and Theology: Mutually Exclusive or Creatively Interdependent? Feminist Theology: The Journal of the Britain & Ireland School of Feminist Theology. No. 21

Clack, B. (1999). The Many-Named Queen of All: Thealogy and the Concept of the Goddess. In D. Sawyer & D. Collier (Eds). Is There a Future For Feminist Theology? Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.

Culpepper, E. (1987). Contemporary Goddess Thealogy: A Sympathetic Critique. In C. Atkinson, C. Buchanan, & M. Miles. (Eds). Shaping New Vision: Gender and Values in American Culture. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press.

Culpepper, E. (1997). Missing Goddesses, Missing Women: Reflections of a Middle-Aged Woman. In K. King (Ed) Women and the Goddess Traditions: In Antiquity and Today. Minneapolis, Fortress Press.

deCosta, J. (2002). Can Apophatic Theology Be Applied to Goddessing as Well as to God? Feminist Theology: The Journal of the Britain & Ireland School of Feminist Theology 11(1).

deCosta, J. (2003). To Explore Whether the Concept of 'Dark' as Expressed in Theology Can Be Reconciled in Any Way to the 'Dark' of Thealogy. Feminist Theology: The Journal of the Britain & Ireland School of Feminist Theology 12(1).

deCosta, J. (2006). From Feminist Theologian to Feminist Thealogian: The Life and Work of Carol P.Christ. Feminist Theology: The Journal of the Britain & Ireland School of Feminist Theology. 14(3).

Mantin, R. (2001). Can Goddesses Travel with Nomads and Cyborgs?: Feminist Thealogies in a Postmodern Context. Feminist Theology: The Journal of the Britain & Ireland School of Feminist Theology. No. 26.

Maeda, D. (1997). The Other Woman: Irreducible Alterity in Feminist Thealogies. Religion 27(2).

Mantin, R. (2004). Thealogies in Process: Re-searching and Theorizing Spiritualities, Subjectivities, and Goddess-talk. In G. Harvey. (Ed). Researching Paganisms. Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press.

McPhillips, K. (1998). Ritual, Bodies, & Thealogy: Some Questions. Feminist Theology: The Journal of the Britain & Ireland School of Feminist Theology No 18.

Goldenberg, N. (1990). The Return of the Goddess: Psychoanalytic Reflections on the Shift from Theology to Thealogy. In Goldenberg, N. Resurrecting the Body: Feminism , Religion, & Pscyhoanalysis. New York: Crossroad

Goldenberg, N. (2004). Witches and Words. Feminist Theology: The Journal of the Britain & Ireland School of Feminist Theology 12(2).

Gross, R. (1997). Some Buddhist Perspectives on the Goddess. In K. King (Ed) Women and the Goddess Traditions: In Antiquity and Today. Minneapolis, Fortress Press.

Raphael, M. (1997). Thealogy, Redemption, and the Call of the Wild. Feminist Theology: The Journal of the Britain & Ireland School of Feminist Theology No. 15.

Sands, K. (1992). Uses of the Thea(o)logian. Sex and Theodicy in Religious Feminism. Journal of Religious Studies in Feminism. 8(1).

Vincett, G. (2009). Goddess Feminist Ritual Practices and Thealogy. Matrifocus. 8(2)

Books

The following books are recommended for anyone interested in the discourses of thealogy, deasophy, and feminist spirituality:

Caron, C. (1993). To Make and Make Again: Feminist Ritual Thealogy. New York: Crossroads

Christ, C. & Plaskow, J. (Eds). (1992). Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion. San Francisco: Harper Collins Publishers

Christ, C. (1997). The Rebirth of the Goddess: Finding Meaning in Feminist Spirituality. New York: Routledge

Christ, C. (2003). She Who Changes: Re-Imagining the Divine in the World. New York: Palgrave Macmillan

Paper, J. (2005). The Deities Are Many: A Polytheistic Theology. New York: State University of New York Press.

Raphael, M. (2000). Introducing Thealogy: Discourses on the Goddess. Cleveland: Pilgrim Press

Raphael, M. (1996). Thealogy and Embodiment: The Post-Patriarchal Reconstruction of Female Sacrality. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.

Ranck, S.A. (1995). Cakes for the Queen of Heaven: An Exploration of Women's Power Past, Present, and Future. Chicago: Delphi Press.

Reid-Bowen, P. (2007). Goddess as Nature: Towards a Philosophical Thealogy. Burlington: Ashgate PRess

Reid, S. (Ed). (2006). Between the Worlds: Readings in Contemporary Neopaganism. Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press Inc.

Stuckey, J. (1998). Feminist Spirituality: An Introduction to Feminist Theology in Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Feminist Goddess Worship. Toronto: Center for Feminist Research at York University

Wise, C. (2008). Hidden Oracles in the Web: Feminist Wicca, Occult Knowledge, and Process Thought. Lanham: AltaMira Press