The Beauty of Womansplaining: The Authoritative Speech of Devi in India, in the World

The nature and significance of the Hindu Divine Mother in embodied thealogical perspective

“…In the late 1970s the term thealogy was coined by Naomi Goldenberg to distinguish feminist theorizing about modern Goddess-centred witchcraft or Wicca from most other theology, which had become preoccupied with ‘Christian god-talk’ (Goldenberg (1979), 96). Since then, the remit of thealogy has expanded to encompass ‘reflections on the meaning of Goddess’ in multiple traditions (Christ (1987), ix), including those originating in South Asia (Sherma (2011), 1–2; Mukhopadhyay (2020), 6 et passim ). The attention of certain feminists has been attracted by Hindu goddesses in large part because of the presence among these deities of decidedly powerful and independent figures.…”