Fall 2012 WSE Newsletter - California Institute of Integral Studies

Recent and Upcoming PublishingsP. Conner, “Of Diana, Witches, and Fairies”; Dr.Tricia Grame, “Beyond The Symbol, VIII” and “Isis”;Dr. Helen Hwang, “Making the Gynocentric Case:Mago, the Great Goddess of East Asia, and HerTradition Magoism”; Dr. Anne Key, “The Stuff of Life:Clay Figurines and Priestesses in Mesoamerica”;Mary Beth Moser, PhD Candidate, “The Motherline:Laundry, Lunedi, and Women’s Lineage”; SandyMiranda Robinett, M.A., “Sardegnan Nuraghe”; andElisabeth Sikie, Ph.D. Candidate, “Descent”, “TantraWith Beloved Hades” and “Song to Demeter.”Adjunct Professor Carol P. Christ is working on abook with Judith Plaskow, tentatively titledGoddess and God After Feminism: Body,Nature, and Power. Her recent articles include:“Why Women, Men, and Other Living Things StillNeed the Goddess: Remembering and Reflecting afterThirty-five Years,” Feminist Theology (TwentiethAnniversary Edition) 20/1 (2012); “RememberingMerlin Stone,” Goddess Thealogy 1/1 (2011); “TheLast Dualism: Life and Death in Goddess FeministTheology,” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion27/1 (2011), 129-145. An interview with her waspublished in Goddess Thealogy 1/1 (2011). She blogsevery Monday on www.feminismandreligion.com .She has book reviews for Theology and Literature andan essay on Brigid in press. In May and June she ranfor the Greek national parliament on the Green Partyticket in Lesbos, and in July she submitted hundredsof pages of documentation to the EuropeanCommission in conjunction with a Complaint whichshe wrote concerning failure to enforceenvironmental laws in Lesbos.Anne Key (WSE PhD 2005), Managing Editor ofGoddess Ink, a press devoted to publishing works inWomen’s Spirituality, is pleased to announce therelease of our latest audio book. Heart of the Sun:An Anthology in Exaltation of Sekhmet hasover 20 contributors and features writings fromNormandi Ellis, Margaret Atwood, Nicki Scully,Barbara Hand Clow, Hank Wesselman, ChandraAlexandre, and Genevieve Vaughan, among others. Inaddition to the print version, the audio version is nowavailable for download or as a 4 volume CD set. Theaudio version features the voices of many of thewriters as well as professional readers. Goddess Inkalso has an audio version of my book, DesertPriestess: a memoir, recalling the three years Ispent as priestess to the Temple of Goddess SpiritualityDedicated to Sekhmet. We are planning to release anew anthology, Brigit: Sun of Womanhood, atImbolc 2013. This anthology, edited by PatriciaMonaghan and Michael McDermott, will featurewritings about Brigit from both sides of the Atlantic.Goddess Ink is always looking for new manuscripts andideas for books. See our manuscript submission processand contact information at www.goddess-ink.com .WS faculty Mara Lynn Keller has been able to devotemore of her time to writing recently. This past year shehas placed for publication the following articles:“Rejoicing in the Goddess Traditions of AncientGreece” forthcoming in Goddess Thealogy: AnInternational Journal for the Study of the DivineFeminine; “Marion Rosen at 97: Finding a NewLife Later in Life,” forthcoming in Poetics of AgingJournal; and “Goddess Spirituality” forthcoming inPsychology and Religion Encyclopedia (SpringerScience+Business Media). In addition, her papers andpresentations for the national conference of theAssociation for the Study of Women and Mythology inSan Francisco in May 2012, will be published in theforthcoming book of conference proceedings:“Demeter-Persephone-Hekate: Philosophicaland Psycho-spiritual Reflections on HonoringWomen at All Stages of Life;” “Sorceress:Mythic Archetype Of The Wise Woman HealerDuring The European Middle Ages;” “Goddessesaround the World: Praise Song and Litany;”“California Foremothers of the Women’sSpirituality Movement;” and “Archaeomythologyas Academic Field and Methodology: BridgingScience and Mysticism” (also forthcoming in theJournal of Archaeomythology). Women’sSpirituality Movement;” and “Archaeomythologyas Academic Field and Methodology: BridgingScience and Mysticism” (also forthcoming in theJournal of Archaeomythology).6