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Van Dyke, Annette. "Feminist Curing Ceremonies: The Goddess in Contemporary Spiritual Traditions," University of Minnesota, June 1987.
Within contemporary feminism is a concern with spirituality as not only an integral part of feminism but also as a means to create change. This is a study of four threads of contemporary American women’s spirituality which use the Goddess of female principle as a focus and which seeks to “cure” or change the dominant Euro-American culture through varying kinds of “ceremonies.” Through the study of fiction, anthropological records, cognitive studies, etc., the author identifies these threads in Leslie Marmon Silko and Paula Gunn Allen’s Laguna Pueblo traditions, Alice Walker and Audre Lorde’s West African heritage, Starhawk’s Celtic pagan traditions, Sonia Johnson’s political activities and Anne Wilson Schaef’s psychotherapy.
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