The sky father is a recurring theme in pagan and neopagan mythology. The sky father is the complement of the earth mother and appears in some creation myths, many of which are European or ancient Near Eastern. Other cultures have quite different myths; Egyptian mythology features a sky mother and an earthly dying and reviving god of vegetation. Shinto gives precedence to a sun goddess. A sky father also relates to a solar deity, a god identified with the sun. In Maori mythology, Ranginui was the sky father. In this story, the sky father and earth moth ...

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• Sky father - History of the concept

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Yeshey Tsogyel (rhymes with "may say so well"), also known in the Nyingma tradition as the Great Bliss Queen, is a mythical red skinned deity or figure of enlightenment (dakini) in Tibetan Buddhism. She is said to have lived from 757 to 817, and is most identified with the factual wife of Emperor Tri-song-day-tsen (740 - c. 798) who invited Padmasambhava to Tibet: From the mouth of a lotus was born The swift goddess, heroic liberator Who went forth in human form Amid the snowy mountains of Tibet. (Jigmay Lingpa quoted by Dro-drup-chen III ...

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• Yeshe Tsogyal - Source

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Youth voice is a fairly common neologism to refers to the distinct ideas, opinions, attitudes, knowledge, and actions of young people as a collective body. Youth voice - Background. The term "youth voice" is often intended to group together a diversity of perspectives and experiences, regardless of backgrounds, identities, and cultural differences. Alternately, the plural forms of either word are usually intended to recognize plurality and diversity of experience, as in youths voice or youth voice ...

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• Youth voice - Background
• Youth voice - Applications
• Youth voice - Criticism

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This entry discusses how the Abrahamic faiths of Judaism, Christianity and Islam deal with God and gender. It includes both traditional religious views, and modern views of these faiths, especially as to how modern feminism has influenced the theology of these religions. For the discussion of the topic in Hinduism, see Hindu views on God and gender. Monotheists hold a belief in one God as a fundamental religious principle. In Judaism and Islam, God is believed to be sexless, but has been traditionally referr ...

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• God and gender - God in the Hebrew Bible
• God and gender - Jewish views of God and gender
• God and gender - Christian views of God and gender
• God and gender - Mormon views
• God and gender - Translating the names of God into English
• God and gender - Third person pronouns: He She or It?
• God and gender - Mankind and Humankind
• God and gender - New translation solutions
• God and gender - Criticism of feminine reconstructions of theology
• God and gender - Bibliography

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In 1993 Charlotte Caron's definition of thealogy as "reflection on the divine in feminine and feminist terms" appeared in "To Make and Make Again" (quoted from Russell & Clarkson 1996). By this time the concept had gained considerable (though conventionally marginal) status, broadly analogous to Ruether's view of radical feminist theology as opposed to reformist feminist theology. Thealogy - Melissa Raphael's view. In 1997 Melissa Raphael wrote "Thealogy & Embodiment" which put the usage firmly on ...

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Thealogy, Thealogy - First uses, Thealogy - First? usages, Thealogy - Second? usage, Thealogy - Bonewits again, Thealogy - Growing usage by Carol Christ and Ursula King, Thealogy - Further expansion of thealogy by Starr* Saffa, Thealogy - Definition by Charlotte Caron, Thealogy - Melissa Raphael's view, Thealogy - Three interpretations of thealogy, Thealogy - Thealogy as Goddess spirituality, Thealogy - Broad interpretation of thealogy Caron, Thealogy - A challenge to androcentrism, Thealogy - Linguistic twiddling

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Many feminists and pro-feminists believe that it is inappropriate for men to call themselves "feminists". This argument takes a variety of forms, including the following: Feminism is a movement and a body of ideas developed by, for and about women. Men can never fully know what it is like to be a woman. By calling themselves feminists, men run the quot;, spiritual and "mythopoetic" men, and "men's rights" and "fathers' rights" men. There is also internal disagreement within this "movement", for example with pro-feminist me-wing and socialist ...

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Pro-feminism, Pro-feminism - Core beliefs, Pro-feminism - Development, Pro-feminism - Pro-feminism compared to feminism, Pro-feminism - Homosexuality, Pro-feminism - Bibliography

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September Six - Lynne Kanavel Whitesides. Lynne Kanavel Whitesides is a feminist noted for speaking on the "Mother in Heaven." Whitesides was the first of the group to experience church discipline. She was disfellowshipped September 14. Whitesides has not returned to activity in the church again as of 2004. Reports state that she has pursued a personal spiritual growth by searching for a more feminine conception of God.

September Six, September Six - Church measures against the September Six, September Six - Short Biographies, September Six - Lynne Kanavel Whitesides, September Six - Avraham Gileadi, September Six - Paul Toscano, September Six - Maxine Hanks, September Six - Lavina Fielding Anderson, September Six - D. Michael Quinn, September Six - Causes, September Six - Reaction, September Six - Bibliography

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DIANIC FEMINIST WICCA: A Wiccan tradition started by Ann Forfreedom that includes both female and male practitioners , solo practitioners, mixed covens and all female covens. Dianic Feminist Wiccans must have a Priestess present for a Circle ritual to be held and encourages practitioners to be involved in feminist and humanist issues. Groups work either skyclad or robed.

(See also: DIANIC FEMINIST WICCA, Magickal Traditions, Magickal Paths, Paganism, Pagan Dictionary)

Tahirih Thealogy The basic Definition of TheAlogy as opposed to Theology means viewing the world incorporating the Female lens which to a great extent in the past has been omitted in Theology. Tahirih TheAlogy is religion beyond religion, politics beyond politics, and spiritual feminism beyond feminism in that it recognizes the Cosmic Christ Spirit in every individual and sets out the pattern of balance for the Sixth Cycle of h ...

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Thealogy, Thealogy - First uses, Thealogy - First? usages, Thealogy - Second? usage, Thealogy - Bonewits again, Thealogy - Growing usage by Carol Christ and Ursula King, Thealogy - Further expansion of thealogy by Starr* Saffa, Thealogy - Definition by Charlotte Caron, Thealogy - Melissa Raphael's view, Thealogy - Three interpretations of thealogy, Thealogy - Thealogy as Goddess spirituality, Thealogy - Broad interpretation of thealogy Caron, Thealogy - A challenge to androcentrism, Thealogy - Linguistic twiddling

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There are perhaps three distinct interpretations of thealogy, and they are evident in the briefing above. Christ, King and Raphael focus thealogy specifically on Goddess spirituality. Caron defines a broader field of a female worldview of the sacred. Goldenberg's neologism as a political stance that marks the androcentrism of historical theology permeates the other two and raises its own issues. ...

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Thealogy, Thealogy - First uses, Thealogy - First? usages, Thealogy - Second? usage, Thealogy - Bonewits again, Thealogy - Growing usage by Carol Christ and Ursula King, Thealogy - Further expansion of thealogy by Starr* Saffa, Thealogy - Definition by Charlotte Caron, Thealogy - Melissa Raphael's view, Thealogy - Three interpretations of thealogy, Thealogy - Thealogy as Goddess spirituality, Thealogy - Broad interpretation of thealogy Caron, Thealogy - A challenge to androcentrism, Thealogy - Linguistic twiddling

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Inclusive spirituality in the West initially gained ground in 19th century, when North American first-wave feminists such as Matilda Joslyn Gage introduced the idea of female Deity, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton published The Women's Bible. Their contemporary, the Swiss Joseph Jakob Bachofen, increased the attention given in Europe to prehistoric matriarchal Goddess cultures. However this information lay dormant in the North America and much of Europe until second-wave feminism. In addition to Bachofen, second-wave feminists who became interested in the history of religion also referred to the work of H ...

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Goddess movement, Goddess movement - Terminology, Goddess movement - Background, Goddess movement - Use of Mythological Materials, Goddess movement - Wicca or Wicce, Goddess movement - Thealogy, Goddess movement - One or Many?, Goddess movement - Within or Without?, Goddess movement - Ethics, Goddess movement - Prehistoric Cultures, Goddess movement - Earth As Goddess

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Liberation Theology

A movement that attempts to unite theology with social and religious concerns about oppression.

It finds expressions among blacks, feminists, Asians, Hispanics, and Native Americans, but it is most closely identified with the shift toward Marxism among Roman Catholic theologians and priests in Latin America. Most traditional doctrines of Christianity are de-emphasized or reinterpreted.

Jesus and the Bible are defined and interpreted in light of a class struggle, with the gospel seen as a radical call to activism (or even revolution) promoting political and social answers usually in the form of classic Communism.

(See also: Liberation Theology, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

Liberation Theology

A movement that attempts to unite theology with social and religious concerns about oppression.

It finds expressions among blacks, feminists, Asians, Hispanics, and Native Americans, but it is most closely identified with the shift toward Marxism among Roman Catholic theologians and priests in Latin America. Most traditional doctrines of Christianity are de-emphasized or reinterpreted.

Jesus and the Bible are defined and interpreted in light of a class struggle, with the gospel seen as a radical call to activism (or even revolution) promoting political and social answers usually in the form of classic Communism.

(See also: Liberation Theology, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

Joss Whedon - Feminism. Whedon identifies himself as a feminist, and feminist themes are common in his work. The most obvious example is the apparently weak teenage girl who is actually extremely strong and powerful, seen in Buffy, Firefly, and Serenity. Feminist scholars have examined Whedon's work, with both positive and negative assessments: see Buffy the Vampire Slayer and social issues. For his part, Whedon credits his mother as the inspiration for his feminist worldview. When Roseanne Barr asked him how he could wri ...

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Joss Whedon, Joss Whedon - Television work, Joss Whedon - Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Joss Whedon - Angel, Joss Whedon - Firefly, Joss Whedon - Movies, Joss Whedon - Comic books, Joss Whedon - Common themes and motifs in Whedon's writing, Joss Whedon - Feminism, Joss Whedon - Dialogue, Joss Whedon - Death, Joss Whedon - Spiritual and philosophical beliefs, Joss Whedon - Quotes

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Thealogy - First? usages. In "The Druid Chronicles (Evolved)," privately published in 1976, Isaac Bonewits used "thealogian" to refer to a Wiccan author (Aidan Kelly, aka "C. Taliesin Edwards," who may have given him the term or vice versa) and "theilogy" (defined as "the study of more than one God"). Bonewits also used "theilogy" (and possibly "thealogy," since he thinks he coined them at the same time) in the pages of the widely-distributed "Gnostic ...

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Thealogy, Thealogy - First uses, Thealogy - First? usages, Thealogy - Second? usage, Thealogy - Bonewits again, Thealogy - Growing usage by Carol Christ and Ursula King, Thealogy - Further expansion of thealogy by Starr* Saffa, Thealogy - Definition by Charlotte Caron, Thealogy - Melissa Raphael's view, Thealogy - Three interpretations of thealogy, Thealogy - Thealogy as Goddess spirituality, Thealogy - Broad interpretation of thealogy Caron, Thealogy - A challenge to androcentrism, Thealogy - Linguistic twiddling

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The feminist movement, and the increasing social status of women in modern society, have led to women's sexuality as being reassessed as a subject in its own right. During the 1970s and 1980s, in the wake of the sexual revolution, numerous feminist writers started to address the question of female sexuality from their own female perspective, rather than allowing female sexuality to be defined in terms of largely male studies. Writers such as Germaine Greer, Simone de Beauvoir and Camille Paglia were particularly influential in t ...

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Female sexuality, Female sexuality - Historical conceptions of female sexuality, Female sexuality - Modern studies of female sexuality, Female sexuality - Feminist concepts

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Feminist movement - Early Achievements. The Feminist Movement has effected many changes in Western society, including women's suffrage; broad employment for women at more equitable wages ("equal pay for equal work"); the right to initiate divorce proceedings and "no fault" divorce; the right of women to control their own bodies and medical decisions, including obtaining birth control devices and safe abortions; and many others. Some feminists would argue that there is still much to be done on these fronts, while ...

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Feminist movement, Feminist movement - Achievements, Feminist movement - Early Achievements, Feminist movement - Effect on heterosexual relationships, Feminist movement - Effect on religion, Feminist movement - Effect on moral education, Feminist movement - History, Feminist movement - Prior to 1850, Feminist movement - In the 19th century, Feminist movement - In the 20th century, Feminist movement - Recent activities, Feminist movement - Notable historical feminists, Feminist movement - Relationship to other movements, Feminist movement - General, Feminist movement - History, Feminist movement - History

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Some forms of feminist theory question basic assumptions about gender, gender difference, and sexuality, including the category of "woman" itself as a holistic concept, further some are interested in questioning the male/female binary completely (offering instead a multiplicity of genders). Other forms of feminist theory take for granted the concept of "woman" and provide specific analyses and critiques of gender inequality, and most feminist social movements promote women's rights, interests, and issues. Feminism is not a single ideology. O ...

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Feminism, Feminism - Origins, Feminism - Feminism in many forms, Feminism - Subtypes of feminism, Feminism - Relationship to other movements, Feminism - Effects of feminism in the West, Feminism - Effects on civil rights, Feminism - Effect on language, Feminism - Effect on heterosexual relationships, Feminism - Effect on religion, Feminism - Effect on moral education, Feminism - Effects of feminism in the East, Feminism - Worldwide statistics, Feminism - Perspective: the nature of the modern movement, Feminism - Contemporary criticisms of feminism, Feminism - Famous feminists, Feminism - Books

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Feminism, in some forms and to varying degrees, has become generally accepted in Western society. However, the attention it has attracted, due to the social changes it has effected, has resulted in many dissenting voices. Criticism has come from within the movement, from non-feminists, from masculists, from social conservatives, and from scientists. Postcolonial feminists criticise Western forms of feminism, notably radical feminism and its most basic assumption, universalization of female experience. They argue that this assumption i ...

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Feminism, Feminism - Origins, Feminism - Feminism in many forms, Feminism - Subtypes of feminism, Feminism - Relationship to other movements, Feminism - Effects of feminism in the West, Feminism - Effects on civil rights, Feminism - Effect on language, Feminism - Effect on heterosexual relationships, Feminism - Effect on religion, Feminism - Effect on moral education, Feminism - Effects of feminism in the East, Feminism - Worldwide statistics, Feminism - Perspective: the nature of the modern movement, Feminism - Contemporary criticisms of feminism, Feminism - Famous feminists, Feminism - Books

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Feminism as a philosophy and movement in the modern sense may be usefully dated to The Enlightenment with such thinkers as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Marquis de Condorcet championing women's education. The first scientific society for women was founded in Middelburg, a city in the south of the Dutch republic, in 1785. Journals for women which focused on issues like science became popular during this period as well. Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) is one of the first works that c ...

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Feminism, Feminism - Origins, Feminism - Feminism in many forms, Feminism - Subtypes of feminism, Feminism - Relationship to other movements, Feminism - Effects of feminism in the West, Feminism - Effects on civil rights, Feminism - Effect on language, Feminism - Effect on heterosexual relationships, Feminism - Effect on religion, Feminism - Effect on moral education, Feminism - Effects of feminism in the East, Feminism - Worldwide statistics, Feminism - Perspective: the nature of the modern movement, Feminism - Contemporary criticisms of feminism, Feminism - Famous feminists, Feminism - Books

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An important distinction needs to be made between spirituality in religion and spirituality as opposed to religion. In recent years, spirituality in religion often carries connotations of the believer's faith being more personal, less dogmatic, more open to new ideas and myriad influences, and more pluralistic than the faiths of established religions. It also can connote the nature of a believer's personal relationship with God, as opposed to the general relationship ...

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Spirituality, Spirituality - The spiritual and the religious, Spirituality - Directed spirituality, Spirituality - Spirituality and personal well-being, Spirituality - The Spiritual and Science, Spirituality - Spiritual traditions and communities

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