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Patricia currently co-editing 'Testing the Boundaries: Self, Faith, Interpretation and Changing Trends in Religious Studies'
Books
Literature of the Sacred Feminine: Great Mother Archetypes and the Re-emergence of the Goddess in Western Traditions
published by VDM Verlag Oct 2009
ABSTRACT
Extant evidence of the Great Mother Goddess dates back to 35, 000 B.C.E. It appears that, over time, the Feminine Divine was reshaped and renamed through myth, art, and ritual to fulfill each society’s need, to fit its own self-image and religious schema. Nearly obliterated as the Great Creatrix before the turn of the Common Era, She is being reclaimed from the collective unconscious through the prominence of Goddess archetypes in a previously unclassified contemporary, literary genre emerging from the United States: Sacred Feminine literature. Readers, en mass, are responding to these stories as chronicles of feminine mythology and spirituality, connecting them to the time when the Goddess prevailed in daily life and ritual. A thought-provoking blend of literary, psychological, historical and theological elements make this text useful to those studying in the disciplines of: thealogy, literature and theology, sociology, feminist archetypal theory, women's studies and interdisciplinary work.
LikeTesting the Boundaries: Self, Faith, Interpretation and Changing Trends in Religious Studies
co-edited with Samuel Tongue; to be published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing Ltd, 2010
This book aims to map out some of the pressure points at which current academic research in religious and theological studies is positioned, engaging others in dialogue and emphasising a similar interdisciplinary ethic as scholars continue to move beyond the traditional boundaries of their own disciplines. For religious and theological studies, this involves an awareness of the historical, psychological and political dimensions of the field, the presuppositions inherent within these traditions, and how to signal approaches that shape this material in new and different ways, often utilising methods from other disciplinary procedures. This book brings together new and more established voices for the first time, engaging one another in conversation and covering a wide range of material, bound together by the common aim of communicating how religious and theological studies are changing under new paradigms of global relationship. With this in mind, the work contained herein shuttles between broader questions of religious and cultural traditions with their accompanying notions of orthodoxy, and the personal selfhoods that are structured, critiqued and emigrate across these religious and theological borderlines.
Communicating Change: Representing Self and Community in a Technological World
Co-Edited with Samuel Tongue; published by eSharp
This special issue of eSharp is a synthesis of thought comprised from the most intriguing and provocative perspectives of ‘Self’ as perceived through the lens of an array of academic disciplines arising from the 7th Annual GSAH Conference ‘Communicating Change: Weaving the Web into the Future’ hosted by the Graduate School of Arts and Humanities, University of Glasgow, 8th-10th June 2009.
As Sam so eloquently states in the introduction:
As human subjects we are eternally interested in ourselves. However, and what a collection such as this amply demonstrates, we can only imagine ourselves in relation to others and that this is a process that always takes place through means of communication that in themselves also provide spaces for conflict or opportunities for productive, ‘knowing’, change....
A major theme running through all of these papers is the use of technology as a means of representing ‘selves’, sometimes emphasising the creative and utopian possibilities of this representation, as Marcevska and Kelly explore; at others, demonstrating that social and economic power and control are always at work in deploying representative media, as Jiang, Ferguson, Sallabank, Kong and Rayment attest. What the authors all agree on is that ongoing communication is necessary if we and others are to be made aware of the regimes of signification that operate when we step onto the changing stage in the ‘theatre of selves’.
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