An exciting look at the many faces of Goddess in America, from the indigenous and the imported, to the “rewritten” goddesses. Also covered: Goddess as perceived variously by American feminists, psychologists, shamans, Christians, and others. Highly informative and well written.Jerri Studebaker, author, "Switching to Goddess" and "Breaking the Mother Goose Code"
Ellen Evert Hopman, Archdruid of Tribe of the Oak, author of “A Legacy of Druids – Conversations with Druid Leaders of Britain, the USA and Canada”


The Goddess religion in contemporary America is a growing and very necessary spiritual movement in a country where there has never yet (as I write this) been a female head of state. Forty percent of American households are run by women who are the sole provider, yet women still make seventy nine cents for every dollar an American man makes. American women find themselves in a warrior society with a strong culture of guns and exploitation of the Earth, and are barely beginning to reclaim the status their ancestral mothers once enjoyed when Goddesses shared the dais with Gods.

Within these pages we learn of Native American Goddesses who teach the lessons of humility, self-sacrifice and connection to the Earth and her creatures. Also the awareness that the sacred feminine dwells within the soil and the Moon, meaning that abuse of the Earth is essentially the same thing as abuse of the Goddess.

We read about the spiritual plight of the immigrant; America has always been an immigrant society and American women who seek a Goddess must decide whether to adopt the native Goddesses of this land, invent a completely new path, or honor their own ancient lineage based on their distant DNA.

We hear from the Reconstructionists who urge us to speak to a Goddess in her own language, whatever it may be, because words have power and this is a way to honor a deity. We are cautioned to read primary sources, give back to the culture we are learning from, and make the effort to visit sacred sites connected to a particular Goddess, no matter how far away they might be.

We taste a bit of Voodoo, Minoan religion, Hebrew and Canaanite Goddess tradition. The Christian Divine Mother finds her place in these pages, as does Brighid; the Mary of the Gael.

We read of modern media Goddesses like Marilyn Monroe and Angelina Jolie, and see powerful Goddess archetypes within strong women such as Amelia Earhart, Harriet Tubman and Eleanor Roosevelt.

No sex-drunk nymphs enter these pages. The Goddess of the Witches and Druids emerges as a powerful eco-feminist. Her Priestesses are mature champions of social justice; healers and ritualists and weavers of radical change for their community.

This is a necessary book for the times we live in.
Karen Tate, author, "Goddess Calling" and "Voices of the Sacred Feminine"
Astute new voices with fresh vision carrying the torch forward for the Sacred Feminine. Excited by the rich diversity between two covers. Touches many of the bases.
Brendan Myers, author, "The Earth, The Gods and The Soul - A History of Pagan Philosophy"
In this book you'll find some of the most articulate and forward-thinking voices in the current generation of American Pagan writers. Writers in this volume like Daimler, Telyndru, and Moss, deserve to be as 'household' in the Pagan world as predecessors like Starhawk and Ravenwolf. With their serious yet loving look at where American Paganism came from and where it should be going, I have no doubt the contributors in this book will fruitfully influence the Paganism of the world.

Jhenah Telyndru is the Founder of the Sisterhood of Avalon and author of Avalon Within: A Sacred Journey of Myth, Mystery and Inner Wisdom and The Avalonian Oracle: Spiritual Wisdom from the Holy Isle

Morgan Daimler is a blogger, poet, teacher of esoteric subjects, witch, Druid, dedicant of Macha, and wandering priest/ess of Odin. She is the author of a number of books including the best-selling title The Morrigan and Irish Paganism

Elisheva Nesher is the current Shophet of AMHA, the Primitive Hebrew Assembly in the USA and an authority on Hebrew Goddesses

Byron Ballard is a Folklorist and authority on Appalachian Witchcraft and author of Asfidity and Mad-Stones and Staubs and Ditchwater

Dorothy Abrams is a Feminist Witch and co-founder of the Web PATH Center, a Pagan church and teaching center in New York USA. She is the author of Identity and the Quartered Circle

Laura Perry is a Pagan artist and storyteller with a special interest in the ancient Minoans. She is the author of Ariadne’s Thread, The Wiccan Wellness Book and Ancient Spellcraft

Hearth Moon Rising is an ordained Priestess in both the Dianic and Fellowship of ISIS traditions. She practices a nature-based magical craft. And is the author of Invoking Animal Magic

Trevor Greenfield(Editor) is the Publisher of Moon Books and the Editor of several Pagan anthologies including Naming the Goddess and Paganism 101