Category: Member Library

ASWM Scholar Salon with Vanessa Johnson: "Telling the stories and legends of African Goddesses rejects patriarchy as the central power of spirituality and shifts traditional male bound forms of spiritual discourse."

ASWM Scholar Salon with Dr Heide Goettner-Abendroth about her new book which covers recent archaeological finds and scholarship to present a picture of the earliest cultural epochs, which were decisively formed by the inventions of women, by motherhood and maternal values.

Following the devastating fires in Lāhainā, Maui, there has been a call for a restoration of the sacred lands of Mokuʻula, once the seat of Hawaiian government and home to the great akua moʻo (reptilian water deity) Kihawahine. The study of Kihawahine’s life, afterlife, and multiple body forms—giant lizard, white dog, spider—invites deep examination of Hawaiian history, religion, politics, culture, art, and language.

Dr. Kaarina Kailo compares variants of the story of the Woman Who Married a Bear to show clearly how the attitude towards mother and bear worship has changed in the shift from pre-christian to Christian and patriarchal cultures.