Paul Cartledge is a professor at Clare College at Cambridge University in Cambridge, England. He is an expert on ancient Greece and has written extensively about the religious roots of the ancient Olympics.

Is there something intrinsically spiritual or religious in motherhood? In the feminine? How might this be a bridge between different faiths?

Cynthia Eller is a professor of religion at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, Calif., where she specializes in women and religion and New Religious Movements. She has written several books on women and religion in prehistory and contemporary feminism.

Miriam Robbins Dexter is a research scholar at the Center for the Study of Women at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is co-editor of Foremothers of the Women’s Spirituality Movement: Elders and Visionaries.

Vivianne Crowley is a council member of the Pagan Federation and a priestess of the Fellowship of Isis. She is the author of Wicca: A Comprehensive Guide to the Old Religion in the Modern World and A Woman’s Guide to the Earth Traditions: Exploring Wicca, Shamanism, Paganism and Celtic Spirituality. She was a professor of psychology of religion […]

Phyllis Curott is one of the world’s first public Wiccan priestesses. She is founder and president of the Temple of Ara, a shamanic Wiccan community. She lives on Long Island in New York and is the author of multiple books on Wicca and goddess spirituality, including Book of Shadows.    

Lynn Gottlieb is a rabbi and a feminist, as well as a “storyteller, percussionist, peace educator, writer, ceremonialist, community activist and clown.” She has participated in Jewitch meetings and retreats. Gottlieb is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Carol Christ is the founder of the Ariadne Institute for the Study of Myth and Ritual in Eugene, Ore. She is an expert on goddess-based religion and spirituality and frequently leads spiritual tours to Greece.

The Women’s Spirituality Forum in San Francisco is a nonprofit group focused on Earth-based and Dianic religions and spiritualities and women. Contact via founder Z Budapest.