Starhawk
Starhawk (* 1951 in the USA; actually Miriam Simos ) is a writer of feminist , Wicca- oriented non-fiction books.
Life
Miriam Simos studied psychology at Antioch University West in San Francisco with an MA degree. While still at university, she received the Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award in 1973 for her novel A Weight of Gold .
She began to deal with neo-paganism and Wicca and became part of these movements. She has published several non-fiction books on the goddess religion. The best known is The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess , which appeared in 1979 (German: The Witch Cult as the Ur-Religion of the Great Goddess ). The book became a classic of Wicca and spiritual feminism.
From 1993 to 1996 she was a lecturer at the Institute for Culture and Creation Spirituality at Holy Names College in Oakland . She is also an ecofeminist and peace activist and a popular speaker for lectures and workshops . In the USA she is considered to be the main representative of pagan or spiritual anarchism , which is not supposed to be resistant, but to de-escalate.
Starhawk now lives partially in San Francisco . There she offers courses, workshops and public rituals in the Wicca tradition together with the Reclaiming collective . Her second home is her 10 acre ranch in Sonoma County .
Works
Books
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The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess (1979, further editions 1989 and 1999)
- German: The witch cult as the original religion of the great goddess
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Dreaming the Dark: Magic, Sex, and Politics (1982, 1988, 1997)
- German: Wild forces, sex and magic for a fulfilled world , Goldmann, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-442-12169-8 .
- Truth or Dare: Encounters with Power, Authority and Mystery (1987)
- The Pagan Book of Living and Dying (1997) (not the sole author, but a contribution to this anthology)
- Circle Round: Raising Children in the Goddess Tradition (1998)
- The fifth secret (1993)
- Walking to Mercury (1997)
- with Hilary Valentine: The twelve wild swans, a journey into the realm of magic. Rituals - Exercises - Training (Original title: The Twelve Wild Swans , translated by Susanne Reichert), Bauer, Freiburg im Breisgau 2001, ISBN 3-7626-0845-8 .
- The power of the great goddess
- Change the world with witchcraft
media
She served as a scientific advisor on the creation of the films Goddess Remembered and The Burning Times , directed by Donna Read and produced by the National Film Board of Canada . She co-wrote the third film in the series ( Full Circle ). She also contributed to the film Signs Out of Time: The Story of Archaeologist Marija Gimbutas .
Awards
- Media Alliance Meritorious Achievement Award for Truth or Dare: Encounters with Power, Authority and Mystery .
- 1994 Lambda Award for Gay Science Fiction for The Fifth Secret .
literature
- Gabriel Kuhn: Pagan Anarchism . In: “New Anarchism” in the USA. Seattle and the aftermath. Unrast Verlag, Münster 2008, ISBN 978-3-89771-474-8 , pp. 120–126.
Web links
- Literature by and about Starhawk in the catalog of the German National Library
- Starhawks homepage
- Some texts translated into German by Starhawk
- Homepage of Reclaiming
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Starhawk |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Simos, Miriam (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | United States |