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a religious education curriculum in feminist thealogy for adults and older youth
by
Shirley Ann Ranck
Unitarian Universalist
Women & Religion
www.uuwr.org
The long-awaited update of the popular curriculum, Cakes for the Queen of Heaven, is here!
IN ANCIENT TIMES introduces participants to ancient Goddesses, weaving their stories together with major concerns of women today. The five-session adult religious education curriculum includes an introductory section featuring author Shirley's Ranck's "Statement of Feminist Thealogy," Elinor Artman's "Brief Herstory of Cakes," and Nancy Vedder-Shults, "Baking Cakes for the Queen of Heaven." The themes of the Session Plans are: The Sacred Female, In the Name of the Mother and the Daughter, Womanpower, The First Turning-From Goddess to God, and Reclaiming Women's Heritage of Peace." The resource section includes supplementary essays by a number of important authors, a listing of highly recommended materials, and the sheet music of songs by Carole Eagleheart and Ann Forfreedom for use with the curriculum. The curriculum also includes a CD-ROM with five Visual Programs to accompany the sessions, plus resource material for easy distribution to participants.
ON THE THRESHOLD, the six-session continuation of the course, continues our journey into the past to reclaim the stories of powerful women to be found in ancient Judaism and in early Christianity. We will also look at the global silencing and brutalization of women that accompanied the rise of patriarchal religion and society. Finally we will celebrate the exciting new world-view and thealogy that has emerged in our time, and explore the personal and social changes that may be suggested by that new world-view and thealogy. We will continue the complex process of telling a new story. Sessions are titled, "The Hebrew Goddess," "Sarah the Priestess," "The Apostle Mary," "The Virgin Mary," "Witchcraft," and "Future Fantasies."
In addition, you may order
Carole Etzler Eagleheart's CD "She Calls to Us," which contains many of the
songs in the curriculum. Sound samples are available at the UUWR online Store,
www.uuwr.org/store.htm.
All will be shipped by mail within the US and Canada. To read more about Cakes and talk with other facilitators, go to our Cakes BLOG.
UU Women & Religion, Publisher
Part I funded in part by the Fund for Unitarian Universalism and the UU Women's Federation
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UU W&R Treasurer, 3224 Timmons Lane, #165, Houston, TX 77027.
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5 sessions, $40
6 sessions, $40
The Original Cakes for the Queen of Heaven
A Ten-Session Adult Seminar in Feminist Thealogy*
by Rev. Shirley Ann Ranck
originally published June 1986
section of Religious Education
Unitarian Universalist Association
Boston, MA
now out of print
www.uua.org
* Thealogy is a term coined by religious scholar Naomi Goldenberg from thea, the Greek word for “goddess.”