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Ancient spiritual traditions - Goddess, Celtic, African, Hindu, Buddhist, Catholic, Greek Orthodox - are being revived and remade by women who create amazing altarpieces. Kay Turner has been exploring the subject of women's altars for over 20 years. She has found them in the studios of artists in Detroit, New…
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This is a beautiful book about women’s home altars, from the traditional to the “wildly revisionist.” Kay Turner was the editor of the most exquisite journal of the Women’s Spirituality movement in the 1970s, Lady-Unique-Inclination-of-the-Night. Here she presents an aesthetic, historical, and perceptive exploration of women’s home altars as a place apart, an expression of intimate connection with the divine, human, and natural realms. Kay Turner sees women’s altars as a continuation of the practice in matrifocal, prepatriarchal cultures, such as the altars of Çatal Hüyük (5th millennium BCE) and those depicted on Minoan seal rings centuries later. A…
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