{"product_id":"christian-goddess-spirituality-mary-ann-beavis-9781138936881","title":"Christian Goddess Spirituality: Enchanting Christianity","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis monograph focuses on \"Christian Goddess Spirituality\" (CGS), the phenomenon of (mostly) women who combine Christianity and Goddess Spirituality, including Wicca\/Witchcraft. Mary Ann Beavis's study provides ethnographic data and analysis on the lived religious experience of CGS practitioners, drawing on interviews of over 100 women who self-identify as combining Christianity and Goddess spirituality. Although CGS also has implications for Goddess Spirituality and related traditions (e.g., Neopaganism, Wicca), here, CGS is considered primarily as a phenomenon within Christianity. However, the study also shows that the fusion of Christian and Goddess spiritualties has had an impact on non-Christian feminist spirituality, since Goddess-worshippers have often constructed Christianity as the diametrical opposite and enemy of the Goddess, to the point that some refuse to admit the possibility that CGS is a valid spiritual path, or that it is even possible. In addition, biblical, Jewish and Christian images of the divine such as Sophia, Shekhinah, the Virgin Mary, and even Mary Magdalene, have found their way into the \"Pagan\" Goddess pantheon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe main themes of the study include: overlaps and differences between Christian feminist theology and CGS; the routes to CGS for individual practitioners, and their beliefs, practices and experiences; proto-denominational classifications (\"spiritual paths\") within CGS; CGS thealogy (Christian discourse about the female divine); and the future of CGS in social scientific and ecclesiological context. \u003ci\u003eChristian Goddess Spirituality \u003c\/i\u003ewill be of interest to scholars of religion, especially those with interests in women and religion, feminist spiritualities, feminist theology\/thealogy, alternative spiritualities, New Religious Movements, and emergent Christianities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mary Ann Beavis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 113893688X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781138936881\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/02\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.60d","brand":"Mary Ann Beavis","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065381794047,"sku":"9781138936881","price":210.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a885f27d-6ce7-413c-916b-affa779c8f3a.jpg?v=1768674818","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/christian-goddess-spirituality-mary-ann-beavis-9781138936881","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}