Institute for Thealogy & Deasophy

Jaqueline DaCosta
MA

Jacqueline ('Jaki') daCosta is an actor, teacher and writer who runs occasional workshops in goddess studies and Wicca. She gained a first class degree in Study of Religions in 2000 and her Masters in Feminist Theology in 2004. She passionately believes that a deconstruction of monotheism and a reconstruction of goddess mythology are fundamental to the feminist dream of a post-patriarchal world. Her publications include:

"Daughter of the Goddess: Addressing the Roots of Spiritual Abuse" (in The Art of the Impossible ed. John-Francis Phipps Port Meadow Press 1992)
Menopausal Woman on the Run (Capall Bann Publishing1994)
"Can Apophatic Theology Be Applied to Goddessing as well as to God?" (Journal of Feminist Theology 2002)
"My Grandmothers Baked Cakes for the Queen of Heaven" (Wood and Water ed. Daniel Cohen Winter Solstice No.81 2002)
Hypatia of Alexandria (Wood and Water Spring 2003)
"To What Extent Can the 'Dark' of Theology be Reconciled With the 'Dark' of Thealogy?" (Journal of Feminist Theology September 2003)

Jacqueline has also written and performed her own one-woman show Lilith Rising, a humorous look at the absurdities of monotheism.