Rebirth of the Goddess: Finding Meaning in Feminist Spirituality
Christ (Odyssey with the Goddess, LJ 3/1/95) manages to combine heart and intellect in her latest work, melding personal experience with goddess studies and her scholarship. She discusses who the goddess is, what her history is, why there is resistance to her, and what she means. Christ is sensitive to different meanings of the goddess?e.g., transcendent, immanent, nature personified, and indwelling presence?and shares her own perceptions, informed and changed by recent experiences living in Greece. Christ finds the goddess especially in life-giving and life-affirming processes integral to existence. The final chapter of her work articulates an ethos focused on affirmation of beauty, life, and love rather than on patriarchal domination, power, and violence. Highly recommended both for those who do not know goddess religion and for those who do.?Carolyn M. Craft, Longwood Coll., Farmville, Va.Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.