![]() She relates that the women visited caves, museums, and other special sites showcasing Crete’s matriarchal spiritual and cultural roots. In this memoir, Christ describes how she then came to a freeing sense of self-worth while leading her first “Goddess tour,” or female-only pilgrimage, throughout Crete. Christ, who then moved to Athens, soon coped with the death of her mother, struggled with writer’s block, and entered group therapy. While she initially felt blessed by a joyous new love affair, “the voice of my despair returned” after that relationship ended. Finding it “more and more difficult to return to a culture that sapped the life energy I felt so strongly in Greece,” the American academic, whose marriage had “suddenly ended,” eventually “resigned the tenured full professorship I had worked so hard to achieve” to live full time on the island. Teaching summer courses about Greek goddesses on Lesbos turned out to be life changing for Christ ( Goddess and the God in the World, 2016, etc.). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A feminist theologian shares her journey from despair to rebirth while leading her first “Goddess tour” in Greece in this revision of her 1995 memoir. ![]()
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