Cynthia Eller

Cynthia Lorraine Eller (born 1958) is an American philosopher and religious scholar . She teaches as a professor at the private Claremont Graduate University in California. Her research and publications focus on women and religion and new religious movements in North America, especially feminist spirituality.

Life

After studying philosophy and social ethics , Cynthia Eller received her PhD in 1988 from the University of Southern California with a dissertation on Conscientious Objectors and the Second World War: Moral and Religious Arguments in Support of Pacifism . ( Conscientious Objection and World War II: Moral and Religious Arguments in Support of Pacifism ). She taught at Princeton , at Bethany Theological Seminary, Yale Divinity School at Yale University, and from 2013 as Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Montclair State University, before accepting a professorship at Claremont Graduate University's School of Religion in 2016 . Since 2016 she has also served as editor-in-chief of the journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR).

Her book Living In The Lap Of Goddess , first published in 1993, is considered the first comprehensive study of the feminist spiritual movement in the USA.

Fonts

• Conscientious Objectors and the Second World War: Moral and Religious Arguments in Support of Pacifism. Praeger Publishing, California 1991, ISBN 978-0-275-93805-5
• Living In The Lap Of Goddess. The Feminist Spirituality Movement in America. First edition, Crossroad, New York 1993, ISBN 0-8245-1245-6
• The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory - Why an Invented Past Won't Give Women a Future. Beacon Press, Boston 2000, ISBN 978-0-8245-1245-3
• Gentlemen and Amazons. The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory, 1861-1900. University of California Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-520-26676-6 ( JSTOR )
• Am IA Woman? A Skeptic's Guide to Gender Beacon Press, Boston 2018, ISBN 978-0-8070-7509-8

Web links

• Cynthia Eller, faculty member of the School of Religion at Claremont Graduate University
• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ USC Digital Library (accessed January 17, 2019)
2. ↑ Cynthia Eller Appointed JAAR Editor , American Academy of Religion website (accessed January 17, 2019)
3. ↑ W. Michael Ashcraft: A Historical Introduction to the Study of New Religious Movements , Routledge, 2018, ISBN 978-1-138-05988-7 ( restricted view )