Goddess worship
Appearance
Goddess worship may refer to:
Historical and polytheistic traditions
[edit]- Worship of goddesses in polytheistic religions, such as:
Living movements and religious traditions
[edit]- Goddess movement, a modern spiritual movement rooted in feminist theology and Neopaganism
- Shaktism, a major tradition of Hinduism that venerates the divine feminine as the supreme being
- Thelema, a spiritual philosophy that venerates Nuit, goddess of infinite space and stars, as the central divine principle
- Wicca, a contemporary Pagan religion that often includes worship of a goddess, either as part of a duotheistic pair or polytheistically
- Dianic Wicca, a feminist tradition within Wicca that focuses exclusively on the worship of the Goddess
Scholarly theoriess
[edit]- Great Goddess hypothesis, a scholarly theory proposing a widespread prehistoric worship of a singular goddess