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Starhawk

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Starhawk (born Miriam Simos on June 17, 1951) is an American writer, teacher and activist. [1]

62 relations: Anne Hill, Anti-globalization movement, Antioch University (San Francisco), Bachelor of Arts, Beliefnet, Bisexuality, California Institute of Integral Studies, Carol Patrice Christ, Christina Hoff Sommers, Code Pink, Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans, Diane Baker, Dianic Wicca, Direct action, Dreaming the Dark, Ecofeminism, Environmental movement, Feminism, Feminist theology, Feri Tradition, Film, Full Circle (1993 film), Goddess movement, Goddess Remembered, Guided meditation, Harper (publisher), Holy Names University, Jews, John F. Kennedy University, M. Macha Nightmare, Marija Gimbutas, Matthew Fox (priest), Modern Paganism, Newsweek, Nonviolence, Peace movement, Psychology, Reclaiming (Neopaganism), Saint Paul, Minnesota, Samhain, Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards, San Francisco Bay Area, Secondary school, Sexual fluidity, Social work, Sonoma, California, Spiral dance, The Burning Times, The Fifth Sacred Thing, The Spiral Dance, ..., The Washington Post, Unitarian Universalism, Unitarian Universalist Association, United for Peace and Justice, University of California, Los Angeles, Venice, Los Angeles, Victor Henry Anderson, Watkins Books, Wheel of the Year, Wicca, Witchcraft, Zsuzsanna Budapest. Expand index (12 more) »

Anne Hill

Anne Hill is the most prominent hill on Radian Ridge in the Royal Society Range of Victoria Land.

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Anti-globalization movement

The anti-globalization movement, or counter-globalisation movement, is a social movement critical of economic globalization.

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Antioch University (San Francisco)

Antioch University West - San Francisco (AUW) was located in San Francisco, California.

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Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts (BA or AB, from the Latin baccalaureus artium or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, sciences, or both.

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Beliefnet

Beliefnet is a lifestyle website providing feature editorial content around the topics of inspiration, spirituality, health, wellness, love and family, news and entertainment.

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Bisexuality

Bisexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or sexual behavior toward both males and females, or romantic or sexual attraction to people of any sex or gender identity; this latter aspect is sometimes alternatively termed pansexuality. The term bisexuality is mainly used in the context of human attraction to denote romantic or sexual feelings toward both men and women, and the concept is one of the three main classifications of sexual orientation along with heterosexuality and homosexuality, all of which exist on the heterosexual–homosexual continuum.

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California Institute of Integral Studies

California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) is a private, non-profit university founded in 1968 and based in San Francisco, California.

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Carol Patrice Christ

Carol Patrice Christ (born 1945) is a feminist historian, theologian, author, and foremother of the Goddess movement.

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Christina Hoff Sommers

Christina Marie Hoff Sommers (born September 28, 1950) is an American author, philosopher specialising in ethics, and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a conservative think tank.

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Code Pink

Code Pink: Women for Peace is an internationally active NGO that describes itself as a "grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end U.S.-funded wars and occupations, to challenge militarism globally and to redirect our resources into health care, education, green jobs and other life-affirming activities".

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Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans

The Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans (CUUPS) is an association of Unitarian Universalists who identify with the precepts of classical or contemporary Paganism: celebrating the sacred circle of life and guiding people to live in harmony with the rhythms of nature.

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Diane Baker

Diane Carol Baker (born February 25, 1938) is an American actress, producer and educator who has appeared in motion pictures and on television since 1959.

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Dianic Wicca

Dianic Wicca, also known as Dianic Witchcraft, and, to some also as "Dianism," "Dianic Feminist Witchcraft," or simply "Feminist Witchcraft"' is a neopagan religion of female-centered goddess ritual and tradition.

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Direct action

Direct action occurs when a group takes an action which is intended to reveal an existing problem, highlight an alternative, or demonstrate a possible solution to a social issue.

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Dreaming the Dark

Dreaming the Dark: Magic, Sex, and Politics is a 1982 book by Starhawk about magic, spirituality, politics, ethics, and sex.

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Ecofeminism

The term Ecofeminism is used to describe a feminist approach to understanding ecology.

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Environmental movement

The environmental movement (sometimes referred to as the ecology movement), also including conservation and green politics, is a diverse scientific, social, and political movement for addressing environmental issues.

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Feminism

Feminism is a range of political movements, ideologies, and social movements that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve political, economic, personal, and social equality of sexes.

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Feminist theology

Feminist theology is a movement found in several religions, including Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, and New Thought, to reconsider the traditions, practices, scriptures, and theologies of those religions from a feminist perspective.

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Feri Tradition

The Feri Tradition is an initiatory tradition of modern Pagan Witchcraft.

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Film

A film, also called a movie, motion picture, moving pícture, theatrical film, or photoplay, is a series of still images that, when shown on a screen, create the illusion of moving images.

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Full Circle (1993 film)

Full Circle is a 1993 Canadian documentary, third and last of the National Film Board of Canada's Women and Spirituality series, focusing on women's spirituality in the Western World at the end of the 20th century, the Goddess movement and feminist Wicca new religious movements, as the preceding Goddess Remembered and The Burning Times featuring neopagan activist Starhawk.

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Goddess movement

The Goddess movement includes spiritual beliefs or practices (chiefly neopagan) which has emerged predominantly in North America, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand in the 1970s.

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Goddess Remembered

Goddess Remembered is a 1989 Canadian documentary on the Goddess movement and feminist theories surrounding Goddess worship in Old European culture according to Marija Gimbutas, and Merlin Stone's When God Was a Woman.

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Guided meditation

Guided meditation is a process by which one or more participants meditate in response to the guidance provided by a trained practitioner or teacher, either in person or via a written text, sound recording, video, or audiovisual media comprising music or verbal instruction, or a combination of both.

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Harper (publisher)

Harper is an American publishing house, currently the flagship imprint of global publisher HarperCollins.

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Holy Names University

Holy Names University is a private, Roman Catholic university in Oakland, California.

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Jews

Jews (יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3, Israeli pronunciation) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and a nation, originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of the Ancient Near East.

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John F. Kennedy University

John F. Kennedy University is a nonprofit, private university located in Pleasant Hill, California, with satellite campuses in San Jose and Berkeley.

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M. Macha Nightmare

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Marija Gimbutas

Marija Gimbutas (Marija Gimbutienė; January 23, 1921 – February 2, 1994) was a Lithuanian-American archaeologist and anthropologist known for her research into the Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of "Old Europe" and for her Kurgan hypothesis, which located the Proto-Indo-European homeland in the Pontic Steppe.

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Matthew Fox (priest)

Matthew Fox (born Timothy James Fox in 1940) is an American priest and theologian.

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Modern Paganism

Modern Paganism, also known as Contemporary Paganism and Neopaganism, is a collective term for new religious movements influenced by or claiming to be derived from the various historical pagan beliefs of pre-modern Europe, North Africa and the Near East.

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Newsweek

Newsweek is an American weekly magazine founded in 1933.

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Nonviolence

Nonviolence is the personal practice of being harmless to self and others under every condition.

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Peace movement

A peace movement is a social movement that seeks to achieve ideals such as the ending of a particular war (or all wars), minimize inter-human violence in a particular place or type of situation, and is often linked to the goal of achieving world peace.

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Psychology

Psychology is the science of behavior and mind, including conscious and unconscious phenomena, as well as feeling and thought.

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Reclaiming (Neopaganism)

Reclaiming is an Wiccan traditional organization of feminist modern witchcraft, aiming to combine the Goddess movement with political activism (in the peace and anti-nuclear movements).

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Saint Paul, Minnesota

Saint Paul (abbreviated St. Paul) is the capital and second-most populous city of the U.S. state of Minnesota.

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Samhain

Samhain is a Gaelic festival marking the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter or the "darker half" of the year.

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Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards

The Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards are bestowed annually by the Samuel Goldwyn Foundation, which is funded by a trust established by the Goldwyn family.

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San Francisco Bay Area

The San Francisco Bay Area (popularly referred to as the Bay Area) is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco, San Pablo and Suisun estuaries in the northern part of the U.S. state of California.

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Secondary school

A secondary school is both an organization that provides secondary education and the building where this takes place.

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Sexual fluidity

Sexual fluidity is one or more changes in sexuality or sexual identity (sometimes known as sexual orientation identity).

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Social work

Social work is an academic discipline and profession that concerns itself with individuals, families, groups and communities in an effort to enhance social functioning and overall well-being.

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Sonoma, California

Sonoma is a city in Sonoma Valley, Sonoma County, California, United States, surrounding its historic town plaza, a remnant of the town's Mexican colonial past.

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Spiral dance

The spiral dance, also called the grapevine dance and the weaver’s dance, is a tradition group dance practiced in Neopaganism in the United States, especially in feminist Wicca and the associated "Reclaiming" movement.

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The Burning Times

The Burning Times is a 1990 Canadian documentary, presenting a feminist account of the Early Modern European witchcraft trials.

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The Fifth Sacred Thing

The Fifth Sacred Thing is a 1993 post-apocalyptic novel by Starhawk.

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The Spiral Dance

The Spiral Dance: a Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess is a best-selling book about Neopagan belief and practice written by Starhawk.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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Unitarian Universalism

Unitarian Universalism (UU) is a liberal religion characterized by a "free and responsible search for truth and meaning".

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Unitarian Universalist Association

Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) is a liberal religious association of Unitarian Universalist congregations.

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United for Peace and Justice

United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) is a coalition of more than 1,300, New York Civil Liberties Union.

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University of California, Los Angeles

The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public research university in the Westwood district of Los Angeles, United States.

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Venice, Los Angeles

Venice is a residential, commercial, and recreational beachfront neighborhood within Los Angeles, California.

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Victor Henry Anderson

Victor Henry Anderson (May 21, 1917 – September 20, 2001) was an American Wiccan priest and poet.

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Watkins Books

Watkins Books is London's oldest esoteric bookshop specializing in esotericism, mysticism, occultism, oriental religion and contemporary spirituality.

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Wheel of the Year

The Wheel of the Year is an annual cycle of seasonal festivals, observed by many modern Pagans.

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Wicca

Wicca, also termed Pagan Witchcraft, is a contemporary Pagan new religious movement.

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Witchcraft

Witchcraft or witchery broadly means the practice of and belief in magical skills and abilities exercised by solitary practitioners and groups.

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Zsuzsanna Budapest

Zsuzsanna Emese Mokcsay (born 30 January 1940 in Budapest, Hungary) is an American author, activist, journalist, playwright and songwriter of Hungarian origin who writes about feminist spirituality and Dianic Wicca under the pen name Zsuzsanna Budapest or Z. Budapest.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starhawk

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