Patricia Monaghan
Writer, Author
1946 – 2012
Who was Patricia Monaghan?
Patricia Monaghan was a poet, a writer, a spiritual activist, and an influential figure in the contemporary women's spirituality movement. Monaghan wrote over 20 books on a range of topics including Goddess spirituality, earth spirituality, Celtic mythology, the landscape of Ireland, and techniques of meditation. In 1979, she published the first encyclopedia of female divinities, a book which has remained steadily in print since then and was republished in 2009 in a two volume set as The Encyclopedia of Goddesses and Heroines. She was a mentor to many scholars and writers including biologist Cristina Eisenberg, poet Annie Finch, theologian Charlene Spretnak, and anthropologist Dawn Work-MaKinne, and was the founding member of the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology, which brought together artists, scholars, and researchers of women-centered mythology and Goddess spirituality for the first time in a national academic organization.
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- Born
- Feb 15, 1946
- Spouses
- Robert Shea
( - 1994/03/10) - Michael McDermott
( - 2012/11/11)
- Robert Shea
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Minnesota
- Died
- Nov 11, 2012
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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