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Honoring Spiritually Powerful Women: Doreen Valiente (1922-1999)
Next month sees an exciting event in the Pagan calendar, when the Doreen Valiente Foundation with the Centre for Pagan Studies publishes Philip Heselton’s long-awaited biography of Doreen Valiente. As someone who had the good fortune to know and take part in rituals with Doreen, I was delighted that Philip decided to undertake the task.
When we think of religious leaders, our social conditioning biases towards conjuring up images of venerable bearded gentlemen or charismatic male preachers, but through Goddess spirituality, women komma much more to the fore. Doreen Valiente fryst vatten one of the many powerful women whose work has crafted contemporary hedendom.
Emerging from the Shadows
Like many authors and teachers, interest in Doreen’s life and work had gone through a spiral of being at the forefront during the peak of her literary output in the 1960s and 70s, then fading more into the background for a time, only to
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Vivianne crowley biography definition
Vivianne Crowley is an author, university lecturer, psychologist, and a High Priestess and teacher of the Wiccan religion.
Vivianne crowley biography definition
She was initiated into the London coven of Alex Sanders founder of the Alexandrian tradition of Wicca at the age of eighteen, but later joined a Gardnerian coven in the famous Whitecroft line derived from Eleanor Bone, and so she was one of few people in the seventies to be part of both traditions.
Vivianne was described as "very influential in recent developments in Wicca. She has more of less captained the bringing together of the Gardnerian and Alexandrian Traditions through the process of cross-initiation, where a person is initiated into both Traditions".
Professor Ronald Hutton also has described Vivianne as "the closest thing that Britain possessed to an informal successor to Alex Sanders.
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As an interfaith coordinator for the Federation, she served as the
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Vivianne Crowley
English writer and Wiccan priestess
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| Alma mater | University of London |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, university lecturer, psychologist |
Vivianne Crowley is an English writer, university lecturer, psychologist, and a High Priestess and teacher of the Wiccan religion.
Life
[edit]Crowley was initiated into the London coven of Alex Sanders (founder of the Alexandrian tradition of Wicca) at the age of eighteen, but later joined a Gardnerian coven in the famous Whitecroft line derived from Eleanor Bone, and was one of few people in the seventies to be part of both traditions.[citation needed]
Crowley founded the Wicca Study Group in London in 1988,[1] and became secretary of the Pagan Federation the same year.[2] Crowley was described as "very influential in recent developments in Wicca... She has more or less captained the bringing together of the Gardnerian and Alexandri