AltaMira Press
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978-0-7591-1002-1 • Hardback • March 2009 • $128.00 • (£98.00)
978-0-7591-1003-8 • Paperback • November 2010 • $60.00 • (£46.00)
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Kristy S. Coleman is an adjunct professor at San Jose State University.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Circle of Aradia Dianic Witches: Organization and Herstory
Chapter 2: The Dianic Religion: Philosophy, Thealogy, Ethics, and Practice
Chapter 3: In Their Own Words: Circle of Aradia and the Goddess
Chapter 4: The Dianic Seasonal Rituals
Chapter 5: Luce Irigaray's Le Féminin
Chapter 6: Ritual Efficacy and Symbolic Alternatives
Chapter 7: Problems and Potentials: Circle of Aradia Dianic Rites
Chapter 8: Power: Dianic Theory and Practice
Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
This is a fascinating book. Kristy Coleman's work brings a scholarly and critical eye to the contemporary goddess movement in America. Her research is thorough, well organized, and well written. Grounded in critical theory, she provides exactly what is most needed in the field of goddess studies while demonstrating the relevance of goddess studies to the study of religion....
— Margaret R. Miles
Re-riting Woman persuasively argues that changing language and ideas is not enough. Kristy Coleman evocatively describes the rituals of a women's religious movement and provides an accessible discussion of the philosophy of Luce Irigaray. She showsthe reader that the active celebration of women's lives as sacred, valuable, and good in regular and transformative rites is both revolutionary and liberating....
— Graham Harvey
Scholars in gender studies, anthropology, religious studies, and other fields will gain valuable insight from Kristy Coleman?s detailed analysis of the Circle of Aradia Dianic Wiccans, its complex dynamics, and its beliefs. Her careful ethnography clearlyexplains Luce Irigaray?s challenging concept of the feminine divine. She reveals not only the woman-empowering, anti-patriarchal process of rituals such as Beltane, but the tension and transformation in the organization itself....
— Dorothy D. Wills, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
In this detailed and nuanced ethnographic study, Kristy S. Coleman guides her readers through French feminist theory to the lived experience of seasonal rituals in Dianic Witchcraft, exploring along the way both the potential and the constraints of a religion that has cast the divine as female....
— Sarah Pike, California State University, Chico
An intriguing study of the convergence of American feminist Goddess spirituality and French feminist theory.....
— Carol P. Christ