Institute for Thealogy & Deasophy

Constance Wise
PhD

Constance Wise has been a practicing Feminist Wiccan for thirty years and co-founded two Feminist Wiccan covens in Denver. She raised her two children as Wiccans and as adults they are still occasional practitioners. She teaches religious studies, women's studies, and philosophy at the Metropolitan State College of Denver and other area colleges. Dr. Wise regularly gives "Have altar will travel" introductions to Paganism to colleges and high school classes. Her primary scholarly interest is promoting positive acceptance of religious pluralism; for her next project she will explore process thought as a possible philosophical foundation for understanding the worship of different deities among the diverse religions in the United States, a phenomenon she calls "America's polytheism." Her doctorate in Theology and Religious Studies is from the Joint PhD Program of Iliff School of Theology and the University of Denver.

Publications

Hidden Circles in the Web: Feminist Wicca, Occult Knowledge, and Process Thought in the Alta Mira Pagan Studies Series, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2008.
"Power in the Sacred Circle: A Metaphysics for Feminist Wicca Based on Process Thought," Ph.D. diss., The Iliff School of Theology and the University of Denver, 2003.
"An Alternative to Gender Essentialism Based on Process Thought," Process Studies, Vol. 34.2, Fall-Winter 2005.
"A Process Epistemology for Wiccan Occult Knowledge," The Pomegranate: International Journal of Pagan Studies, Vol. 6.2, November 2004.