General Bibliography
This bibliography lists general texts on goddess religion as well as theoretical
works that have established and expanded the field of Goddess Studies. In
addition, important works focused on specific figures or cultures are noted.
For primary sources and for general works on mythology, see the appropriate
cultural section.
General, Theoretical and Comparative Works
Adams, Carol J. Ecofeminism and the sacred. New York: Continuum,
1993.
Atkinson, Clarissa, Constance H. Buchanan and Margaret R. Miles, eds.
Immaculate and Powerful: The Female in Sacred Image and Social
Reality. Harvard Women in Religion Series. Boston: Beacon Press,
1985.
Austen, Hallie Iglehart. Heart of the Goddess. Berkeley, CA; Wingbow
Press,
1990.
Barber, Elizabeth Wayland. Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years.
Women,
Cloth and Society in Early Times. New York: W.W. Norton, 1994.
Baring, Anne and Jules Cashford. The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of
an
Image. New York, NY: Viking Arkana, 1991.
Benard, Elisabeth and Beverly Moon. Goddesses Who Rule. New York:
Oxford University Press, 2000.
Berger, Pamela. The Goddess Obscured: Transformation of the Grain
Protectress
from Goddess to Saint. Boston: Beacon Press, 1985.
Biaggi, Cristina, ed. In the Footsteps of the Goddess. Manchester, CT:
Knowledge, Ideas and Trends, 2000.
Billington, Sandra, and Miranda Green, editors. The Concept of the
Goddess.
London: Routledge, 1996.
Bolen, Jean Shinoda. Goddesses in Everywoman: A New Psychology of
Women.
San Francisco, CA: Harper & Row, 1984
Borgeaud, Philippe. Mother of the Gods: From Cybele to the Virgin Mary.
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
Cameron, Averil and Amelie Kuhrt, eds. Images of Women in Antiquity.
London: Routledge, 1993.
Campbell, Joseph and Charles Musès. In All Her Names: Explorations of
the
Feminine in Divinity. San Francisco, CA: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991.
Christ, Carol P., and Judith Plascow. Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist
Reader
in Religion. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.
Christ, Carol. Rebirth of the Goddess: Finding Meaning in Feminist
Spirituality.
Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1997.
—She Who Changes: re-imagining the divine in the world. New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2003.
Craighead, Meinrad. The Mother's Songs: Images of God the Mother. NY:
Paulist Press, 1986.
Crawford, O. G. S. The Eye Goddess. London : Phoenix House, 1957.
Daly, Mary. Beyond God the Father. Boston: Beacon Press, 1973.
Devlin-Glass, Frances and Lyn McCredden. Feminist Poetics of the Sacred:
Creative Suspicions. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Dexter, Miriam Robbins. Whence the Goddesses: A Sourcebook. New York:
Pergamon Press, 1990.
Downing, Christine. The Goddess: Mythological Images of the Feminine.
New
York: Crossroad, 1981.
Dunn-Mascetti, Manuela. The Song of Eve: Mythology and Symbols of the
Goddess. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990.
Eck, Diana L. and Jain, Devaki. Speaking of Faith: Global Perspectives on
Women, Religion & Social Change. Philadelphia: New Society
Publishers, 1987.
Eisler, Riane. The Chalice and the Blade. Cambridge, MA: Harper & Row,
1987.
Falk, Nancy, and Rita Gross, eds. Unspoken Worlds: Women's Religious
Lives
in Non-Western Cultures. San Francisco, CA: Harper & Row, 1980.
Frazer, James George. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion.
New
York: Macmillan 1922.
Frymer-Kensey, Tikva. In the Wake of the Goddesses: Women, Culture and the
Biblical Transformation of Pagan Myth. New York: Fawcett Columbine,
1992.
Gadon, Elinor. The Once and Future Goddess. New York: HarperCollins,
1989.
Galland, China. Longing for Darkness: T¯ar¯a and the Black Madonna, A
TenYear Journey. New York: Viking Press, 1990.
Getty, Adele. Goddess: Mother of Living Nature. New York: Thames and
Hudson, 1990.
Gimbutas, Marija. The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe. Berkeley CA:
University of California, 1982.
— The Language of the Goddess: Unearthing the Hidden Symbols of
Western
Civilization. San Francisco CA: Harper & Row, 1989.
— The Civilization of the Goddess. San Francisco, CA:
HarperSanFrancisco,
1991.
Goldenberg, Naomi R. Changing of the Gods: Feminism and the End of
Traditional Religions. Boston: Beacon Press, 1979.
Goodison, Lucy and Christine Morris, Christine. Ancient Goddesses: The
Myths and the Evidence. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin
Press, 1998.
Göttner-Abendroth, Heide. The Dancing Goddess. Boston: Beacon Press,
1991.
Graham, Lanier. Goddesses in Art. New York: Artabras, 1997.
Graves, Robert. The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth.
New
York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1948.
Griffin, Wendy, ed. Daughters of the Goddess. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira
Press, 2000.
Harrison, Jane Ellen. Ancient Art and Ritual. NY: Henry Holt, 1913.
Harding, M. Esther. Woman's mysteries, Ancient and Modern. New York:
Putnam, 1972.
Harvey, Andrew and Anne Baring. The Divine Feminine: Exploring the
Feminine Face of God throughout the World. Berkeley, CA : Conari
Press, 1996.
Husain, Shahrukh. The Goddess: Power, Sexuality, and the Feminine
Divine.
Ann Arbor MI: University of Michigan Press, 2003.
Hutton, Ronald. The Triumph of the Moon. New York: Oxford University Press,
1999.
James, E. O. The Cult of the Mother-Goddess; an Archaeological and
Documentary
Study. London: Thames and Hudson, 1959.
Johnson, Buffie. Lady of the Beasts : Ancient Images of the Goddess and Her
Sacred Animals. San Francisco, CA: Harper & Row, 1988
Kerényi, Karl. Goddesses of Sun and Moon. Dallas, TX: Spring
Publications,
1979.
King, Karen L., ed, Women and Goddess Traditions in Antiquity and Today.
Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1997.
King, Ursula. Women in the World’s Religions, Past and Present. New York
Paragon House, 1987.
Kinsley, David R. The Goddesses’ Mirror: Visions of the Divine from East and
West. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1989.
Knapp, Bettina. Women in Myth. Albany, NY: State University of New York
Press, 1997.
Larrington, Carolyne. The Feminist Companion to Mythology. London: Pandora,
1992.
Leland, Charles. The Gospel of the Witches. Phoenix Publishing, 1990.
Leeming, David Adams and Jake Page. Goddess: Myths of the Female
Divine.
New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
Lerner, Gerda. The Creation of Patriarchy. New York: Oxford University Press,
1986.
Long, Asphodel. In A Chariot Drawn by Lions: the Search for the Female in
Deity.
Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1993.
Markale, Jean. The Great Goddess: Reverence of the Divine Feminine from
the
Paleolithic to the Present. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 1999
Marler, Joan, ed. From the Realm of the Ancestors. Manchester, Connecticut:
Knowledge, Ideas and Trends, 1997.
Matossian, Mary. “In the Beginning, God was a Woman.” Journal of Social
History, Vol 6, No. 3 (Spring 1973), p. 325-343.
McCrickard, Janet. Eclipse of the Sun. Glastonbury: Gothic Image, 1994.
Monaghan, Patricia. O Mother Sun: A New View of the Cosmic Feminine.
Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press, 1994.
Motz, Lotte. The Faces of the Goddess. New York: Oxford University Press,
1997.
Murray, Margaret Alice. The God of the Witches. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1970.
Neumann, Eric. The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype. Princeton,
NJ:
Princeton University Press, 1972.
Nicholson, Shirley J. The Goddess Re-awakening: the feminine principle
today.
Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Pub. House, 1989.
Noble, Vicki. The Double Goddess: Women Sharing Power. Rochester,
VT: Bear
& Co., 2003.
Ochs, Carol. Behind the Sex of God: Toward a New Consciousness
Transcending
Matriarchy and Patriarchy. Boston: Beacon Press, 1977.
O’Flaherty, Wendy Doniger. Women, Androgynes, and Other Mythical
Beasts.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.
Obeyesekere, Gananath. Medusa’s Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and
Religious Experience. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.
Olson, Carl. The Book of the Goddess, Past and Present: An Introduction to Her
Religion. New York: Crossroad, 1983.
Orenstein, Gloria Feman. The Reflowering of the Goddess. New York:
Pergamon
Press, 1990.
Paper, Jordan. Through the Earth Darkly: Female Spirituality in Comparative
Perspective. New York: Continuum, 1997.
Paris, Ginette. Pagan Meditations: The Worlds of Aphrodite, Artemis, and
Hestia. Dallas, TX: Spring Publications, 1986.
Perera, Sylvia Brinton. Descent to the Goddess: A Way of Initiation for
Women.
Toronto: Inner City Books, 1981.
Pomeroy, Sarah, ed. Women’s History and Ancient History. Chapel Hill,
N.C.:
University of North Carolina Press, 1991.
Pratt, Annis. Dancing with Goddesses: Archetypes, Poetry, and
Empowerment.
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1994.
Preston, James. Mother Worship: Theme and Variations. Chapel Hill, NC: The
University of North Carolina Press, 1982.
Puhvel, Jaan. Comparative Mythology. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins
University
Press, 1987.
Qualls-Corbetter, Nancy. The Sacred Prostitute: Eternal Aspect of the
Feminine.
Toronto: Inner City Books, 1982.
Ranck, Shirley Ann. Cakes for the Queen of Heaven. Boston, MA:
Department
of Religious Education, Unitarian Universalist Association, 1986.
Raphael, Melissa. Introducing Thealogy: Discourse on the Goddess.
Cleveland,
Ohio: Pilgrim Press, 2000
Redmond, Lane. When the Drummers were Women: A Spiritual History of
Rhythm.
NY: Three Rivers Press, 1997.
Rosenberg, Donna. Folklore, Myths and Legends: A World Perspective.
Lincolnwood, IL: NTC Publishing Group, 1997.
Ruether, Rosemary Radford. Goddesses and the Divine Feminine: a Western
Religious History. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005.
Sax, Boria. The Serpent and the Swan: The Animal Bride in Folklore and
Literature.
Blacksburg, VA: McDonald and Woodward, 1998.
Shlain, Leonard. The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between
Word
and Image. New York: Penguin, 1999.
Sjöö, Monica and Barbara Mor. The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering
the
Religion of the Earth. San Francisco : Harper & Row, 1987. Spretnak, Charlene, ed. The Politics of Women's Spirituality. Garden City,
NY: Anchor Books, 1982.
— States of Grace: The Recovery of Meaning in the Postmodern Age. San
Francisco:
Harper, 1993.
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. The Woman's Bible. Boston: Northeastern University
Press, 1993.
Starhawk. The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great
Goddess. San Francisco, CA: HarperSanFrancisco, 1999.
Stone, Merlin. When God Was a Woman. New York: Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich, 1978.
Straffon, Cheryl. The Earth Goddess: Celtic and Pagan Legacy of the
Landscape.
London: Blandford, 1997.
Stuckey, Johanna. Feminist Spirituality: An Introduction to Feminist Theology in
Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Feminist Goddess Worship. Toronto:
Centre for Feminist Research, 1998.
Tedlock, Barbara. The Woman in the Shaman’s Body: Reclaiming the
Feminine in
Religion and Medicine. New York: Bantam Books, 2005.
Tyloch, Witold, ed. Current Progress in the Methodology of the Science of
Religions. Warsaw: Polish Scientific Publishers, 1984.
Weigle, Marta. Spiders and Spinsters. Albuquerque: University of New
Mexico Press, 1985.
— Creation and Procreation: Feminist Reflections on Mythologies of
Cosmogony and Parturition. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press, 1989.
Whitmont, Edward. Return of the Goddess. New York: Crossroad, 1982.
Wolff, Toni. “Structural forms of the feminine psyche.” Zurich: C.G. Jung
Institute, 1956.
Woodman, Marion and Elinor Dickson. Dancing in the Flames: The Dark
Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness. Boston, MA:
Shambhala, 1996.
Works on Specific Cultures or Goddesses
Allen, Michael. The Cult of Kumari: Virgin Worship in Nepal. Kathmandu,
Nepal: Institute of Nepal and Asian Studies, 1975.
Allen, Paula Gunn. The sacred hoop: recovering the feminine in American
Indian
traditions. Boston: Beacon Press, 1986.
Amadiume, Ifi. Afrikan Matriarchal Foundation. London: Karnak House, 1987.
Anderson, Jorgen. The Witch on the Wall: Medieval Erotic Sculpture in the
British Islands. London: George Allen & Unwin.
Anderson, Sarah M. with Karen Swenson. Cold Counsel: Women in Old
Norse
Literature and Mythology. New York: Routledge, 2002.
Awaikta, Marilou. Selu: Seeking the Corn-Mother’s Wisdom. Golden, CO:
Fulcrum
Publishing, 1993.
Bal, Mieke. Lethal Love: Feminist Literary Readings of Biblical Love Stories.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.
Benko, S. The Virgin Goddess: Studies in the Pagan and Christian Roots of
Mariology. Leiden: E.J.Brill, 2004.
Berndt, Ronald. Kunapipi: A Study of an Australian Aboriginal Religious Cult.
New York: International Universities Press, 1951.
Blacker, Carmen. The Catalpa Bow: A Study of Shamanistic Practices in Japan.
London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd, 1982.
Blundell, Sue and Margaret Williamson. The Sacred and the Feminine in Ancient
Greece. New York: Routledge, 1998.
Bottigheimer, Ruth B. Grimms’ Bad Girls and Bold Boys: The Moral and
Social
Vision of the Tales. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987.
Brenneman, Walter and Mary Brenneman. Crossing the Circle at the Holy
Wells of Ireland. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1995.
Brenner, Athalya and Carole Fontaine, eds. A Feminist Companion to
Reading
the Bible: Approaches, Methods and Strategies. Sheffield: Sheffield
Academic Press, 1997.
Briggs, K. M. The Fairies in Tradition and Literature. London: Routledge &
Kegan Paul, 1967.
Brown, Karen McCarthy. Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2001.
Buday, Korélia. The Earth has given birth to the sky: Female spirituality in
the
Hungarian folk religion. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2004.
Cahill, Suzanne E. Transcendence and Divine Passion: The Queen Mother of
the West
in Medieval China. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993.
Caldwell, Sarah. Oh Terrifying Mother: Sexuality, Violence and the Worship
of
the Goddess K¯a˛li. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Campbell, June. Traveler in Space: In Search of Female Identity in Tibetan
Buddhism. London: Athlone Press, 1996.
Cantarella, Eva. Pandora’s Daughters: The Role and Status of Women in
Greek
and Roman Antiquity. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1987.
Castillo, Ana. Goddess of the Americas/La Diosa de las Américas: Writings
on the
Virgin of Guadalupe. New York: Riverhead Books, 1996.
Clark, Rosalind. The Great Queens: Irish Goddesses from the Morrígan to
Cathleen ní Houlihan. Irish Literary Studies 34. Gerrards Cross:
Colin Smythe, 1991.
Colegrave, Sukie. The Spirit of the Valley: The Masculine and Feminine in
Human Consciousness. Los Angeles: J.P.Tarcher, Inc, 1979.
Connelly, Joan Breton. Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient
Greece. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007.
Davidson, H. R. Ellis. Roles of the Northern Goddess. New York:
Routledge,
1998.
Dehejia, Vidya. Dev¯i: The Great Goddess; Female Divinity in South Asian
Art.
Washington, D.C.: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution,
1999.
Dever, William G. Did God Have a Wife? Archaeology and Folk Religion in
Ancient
Israel. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company,
2005.
Dioszegi, V., ed. Popular Beliefs and Folklore Traditions in Siberia.
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1968.
Dowden, Ken. Death and the Maiden: Girls’ Initiation Rites in Greek
Mythology.
London: Routledge, 1989.
Ellis, Normandi. Feasts of Light. Wheaton, IL: Quest Books, 1999.
Ellis, P. Berresford. Celtic Women: Women in Celtic Society and Literature.
Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1995.
Evans-Wentz, W.Y. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries. Gerrards Cross:
Colin
Smythe Humanities Press, 1911.
Foulston, Lynn. At the Feet of the Goddess: The Divine Feminine in Local
Hindu
Religion. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2002.
Friedrich, Paul. The Meaning of Aphrodite. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1978.
Gleason, Judith. Oya: In Praise of the Goddess. Boston: Shambhala, 1987.
Goodison, Lucy. Women, Death and the Sun: Symbolism of Regeneration in
Early
Aegean Religion. London: University of London Institute of Classical
Studies. Bulletin Supplement 53; 1989.
Grace, Patricia. Wahine Toa: Women of Maori Myth. Sydney: Collins, 1984.
Green, Miranda. Celtic Goddesses: Warriors, Virgins and Mothers. London:
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Hamilton, Roy W. The Art of Rice: Spirit and Sustenance in Asia. Los
Angeles,
CA: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 2003.
Harrison, Jane Ellen. Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion.
Princeton,
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Hawley, John Stratton and Donna M. Wulff. Dev¯i: Goddesses of India.
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Hiltebeitel, Alf and Kathleen M. Erndl. Is the Goddess a Feminist? The
Politics
of South Asian Goddesses. New York: New York University Press,
2000.
Hoppál, Mihály, and Juha Pentikäinen, ed. Northern Religions and Shamanism.
Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1992.
Hubbs, Joanna. Mother Russia: The Feminine Myth in Russian Culture.
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1993.
Jayakar, Pupul. The Earth Mother: Legends, Goddess and Ritual Arts of
India. San
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Jell-Bahlsen, Sabine. The Water Goddess in Igbo Cosmology: Ogbuide of
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Jesch, Judith. Women in the Viking Age. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell, 1991.
Kelly, Mary B. Goddess Embroideries of Eastern Europe. Winona, MN:
Northland
Press, 1989.
Keuls, Eva C. The Reign of the Phallus: Sexual Politics in Ancient Athens.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.
Larson, Jennifer. Greek Heroine Cults. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press,
1995.
Lefkowitz, Mary R. Women in Greek Myth. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins
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Lesko, Barbara S. The Great Goddesses of Egypt. Norman, OK: University
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Lubell, Winifred Milius. The Metamorphosis of Baubo: Myths of Woman’s
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Marinatos, Nannó. The Goddess and the Warrior: The Naked Goddess and
Mistress of Animals in Early Greek Religion. London: Routledge,
2000.
Markale, Jean. Women of the Celts. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions,
1986.
McDaniel, June. Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls: Popular Goddess Worship
in
West Bengal. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
McMahon, Joanne and Jack Roberts. The Sheela-na-Gigs of Ireland and
Britain:
The Divine Hag of the Christian Celts. Cork: Mercier Press, 2001.
Meagher, Robert Emmet. Helen: Myth, Legend and the Culture of
Misogyny.
New York: Continuum, 1995.
Mellart, James. The Goddess from Anatolia. Four Volumes. Adenau, West
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Monaghan, Patricia. The Red-Haired Girl from the Bog. Novato, CA: New
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Mookerjee, Ajit. K¯al¯i: The Feminine Force. New York: Destiny Books,
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Moon, Sheila. A Magic Dwells: A Poetic and Psychological Study of the
Navaho
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Munn, Mark. The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia. A
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of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. Berkeley: University of California
Press, 2006.
Murphy, Joseph M. and Mei-Mei Sandford, editors. Osun Across the Waters:
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Indiana
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Mylonas, George E. Eleusis and the Eleusinian Mysteries. Princeton, NJ:
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Paper, Jordan. “The Persistence of Female Deities in Patriarchal China.”
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Patai, Raphael. The Hebrew Goddess (Third Enlarged Edition). Detroit: Wayne
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Pattanaik, Devdutt. The Goddess in India: The Five Faces of the Eternal
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Perandotto, John and J.P. Sullivan, editors. Women in the Ancient World:
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Persson, Axel W. The Religion of Greece in Prehistoric Times. Berkeley:
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Pintchman, Tracy, ed. The Rise of the Goddess in the Hindu Tradition.
Albany:
State University of New York Press, 1994.
Pocs, Eva. Fairies and Witches at the Boundary of South-Eastern and
Central
Europe. Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Finnica, 1989.
Powers, Marla N. Oglala Women: Myth, Ritual and Reality. Chicago: University
of
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Rabinowitz, Jacob. The Rotting Goddess: The Origin of the Witch in Classical
Antiquity. Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, 1998.
Reeder, Ellen, ed. Pandora: Women in Classical Greece. Princeton, NJ:
Princeton University Press, 1995.
Reichard, Gladys. Navaho Religion: A Study of Symbolism. Bollingen Series.
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Online Resources:
Texts and libraries
Sacred Texts. Texts on women and religion: www.sacred-texts.com
Stav Academy Library. European texts and tales: www.stavacademy.co.uk/
mimir
The Ancient Library. Classical texts: www.ancientlibrary.com
Perseus. Digital library: www.perseus.tufts.edu
Ancient Texts. Greek and Roman: www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/textindx.html
Ancient Egyptian Texts. Some with hieroglyphs: reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/
texts/index.html
Center for Preservation of Ancient Texts. Primarily Eastern Mediterranean:
cpart.byu.edu
Etana. Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives: www.etana.org
Papyrus to Digital. Ancient Greek texts: www.lib.uci.edu/libraries/exhibits/
tlg/index.php
Hanover Historical. Some sacred: history.hanover.edu/project.html
Internet Classics Archive. Mainly classical texts: classics.mit.edu
Academic and peer-reviewed journals
Folklore. European folklore: www.folklore.ee/Folklore/ksisu.htm
Magistra. Women’s spirituality: www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu/~dvess/
magistra.htm
Ochre. Women’s spirituality: www.ciis.edu/ochrejournal/
Internet Journal of Religions. With related journals: web.uni-marburg.de/
religionswissenschaft/journal/
Religious Studies Web Guide. Multiple journals: www.acs.ucalgary.ca/
~lipton/journals.html
Organizations
Åssociation for Study of Women and Mythology. Scholars and artists:
www.womenandmyth.org
Divine Balance. The feminine in Christianity: www.divine balance.org
Institute of Archeomythology. Connecting archaeology and myth:
www.archaeomythology.org
Nature and Culture. International society: www.religionandnature.com
Myth*ing Links. Thematically arranged: www.mythinglinks.org
Diotima. Women and gender in ancient world: www.stoa.org/diotima
SIEF. European folklore: www.siefhome.org
Traditional Cosmology Society. Cross-cultural: www.tradcos.co.uk/
Other Media Resources:
Women and Spirituality (films by Donna Read): Goddess Remembered, The
Burning Times, Full Circle.