SRS 1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Susan B. Anthony, Zsuzsanna Budapest, Combined Oral Contraceptive Pill

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: SRS 1110
• Professor: Shelley Rabinovitch

Document Summary

Lecture 7 - alternative magical religions i: goddess worship/feminist witchcraft. Self identified, what i call my religion. Started in us moved over to europe. No single definition, no single church, extremely independent, self-formed: aka very broad. During ww2 the men took off, women took their roles. Giving birth to hippies, black panthers, new civil rights change. 1960s use of birth control pills allowed. 1970s women able to do almost everything men do. Look for physical meanings, based the marking of feminism. Theory there were goddess worshipping places, rather than. Questioned norms of christianity, religious criticism in poetry. To be fully a person, was to sin. Ecstatic dance that created --> birth from goddess. Picked goddess diana (no man controls her) therefore call it. Dianic worship, dianic witchcraft does not mention god, believe men have no spirituality. Dianic witch comes from roman goddess diana (free, wise, married) feminist witchcraft makes it dynamic. Z budapest founded major movement of feminist witches.