Try googling “feminist Spirituality” (googling a subject matter is often my point of entry, as you might have realized, if you read any of my other entries), “mainstream” feminist spirituality is often connected with some version of essentialist feminism – aka women are so cool because_____(fill in the blank with something about nurturing, the earth or the moon, and you get the point).
While, I consider myself fiercely feminist, and I attempting spirituality, I have not yet found a feminist spirituality that is “egalitarian,” at its core, or even thinking along that line (feminist for me as philosophy of radical egalitarianism). Calling god the something earthy, like the “wind” or the “spirit” instead of “he” is not what I am referring to, such changes are too easy, because, while attempting to posit a genderless god, old school good is just glossed over with “hippy” names.
An “egalitarian” spirituality ought to deconstruct the very notion of god, because god “the wind” exists in hierarchal relationship with the earth just as god “the king.”
Back to google my Oracle – a search for “egalitarian spirituality” is evens less likely to yield fruits. As expected it boils down to either “love the earth” religion or “everyone is right” religion, which is not what I am saying on either count.
After parting ways with Orthodox Judaism, and going “egal,” I’d love to take “egal” to the next level, and wonder what it would look like to have an “egal” spirituality.
1. how is wind in heirarchy wiht the earth? dont they just coexist?
2. how about the idea of an “immanent” rather than “transcendent” god (this is a big part of reconstructionist theology. basically, god is part of the fabric of he world, rather than a puppetmaster over it.
Good Point! I guess my point about the naming switching was – that you are still doing an act of “worship” and how do you make sense of worship in a non-hierarchical model? – a question that may not make sense, and a question I do not have an answer to.