AltaMira Press
Pages: 162
Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-0-7591-1006-9 • Hardback • May 2008 • $109.00 • (£84.00)
978-0-7591-1007-6 • Paperback • October 2008 • $48.00 • (£37.00)
978-0-7591-1313-8 • eBook • May 2008 • $45.50 • (£35.00)
Constance Wise teaches religious studies, women's studies, and philosophy at the University of Colorado, Denver, the University of Northern Colorado, and Metropolitan College of Denver. She has practiced Feminist Wicca for thirty years and is co-founder and leader of two Feminist Wiccan groups in Denver.
Chapter 1 Introduction: Finding What is Hidden
Chapter 2 Discovering the Hidden in Two Circles
Chapter 3 History and Anthropology: Resisting Historical and Gender Essentialism
Chapter 4 Epistemology and Ethics: Occult Knowledge and Moral Decisions
Chapter 5 Cosmology and Thealogy: The Web, the Goddess, and Magic
Creatively, Constance Wise discovers unexpected cogency in extraordinary religious practices. She uses process philosophy and personal narrative to unfold the richness implicit in an emerging form of American religious naturalism.
— William Dean, professor emeritus, Iliff School of Theology
Process thought has played a role in the development of Christian feminist theology. Alongside those feminists who have undertaken to revise Christian teaching and reform Christian practice so as to end the exclusion of women, there are others who believe they can work to overcome the myriad tentacles of patriarchy more effectively from outside the deeply patriarchal Abrahamic traditions. Constance Wise has found her home in feminist Wicca. Now, like Carol Christ, Wise finds in the conceptuality developed in the process tradition a fruitful way of articulating the insights and experience of Wicca.
— John B.Cobb, Jr., CLAREMONT SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY
An intriguing synthesis of Goddess spirituality and process thought.
— Carol P. Christ, author of She Who Changes