Category: Gender & sexuality
Lynn Gottlieb
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
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.
Religions for Peace European Women of Faith Network
Religions for Peace European Women of Faith Network is a organization and network of European women of various faiths who work to promote peace, understanding and spiritual values. Its offices are based in Glasgow, Scotland.
Women’s Spirituality Forum
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.
Zsuzsanna Budapest
Zsuzsanna Budapest — more commonly known as Z Budapest — is one of the founders of the revival of Earth-based, women-focused spirituality movement of the 1960s and 1970s. She is the author of more than a dozen books on women’s spirituality and Earth-based religions and teaches in San Francisco.
Elizabeth Dreyer
Elizabeth Dreyer is a professor of religious studies at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Conn. She is the editor of a series of books, Called to Holiness: Spirituality for Catholic Women.
Kate Shulamit Fagan
Kate Shulamit Fagan is a spiritual director who runs a Jewish women’s spirituality group in St. Petersburg, Fla. Contact via her website.
Mara Lynn Keller
Mara Lynn Keller is a professor of women’s spirituality at California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. She is an expert on goddesses — both ancient and new — and says she is “interested in promoting dialogue between Goddess people and God people.”