User talk:RuquiaRubaiet/sandbox

Peer Review
Hey! Interesting article. I just have a few suggestions that I think might make your article a bit stronger. I think that there is a need for a bit more information in the biography section, but I think you might want to create different sections too. A 'Major Works' section might be useful, where you can put some more information about Carol P. Christ's work and themes. I think it also could be useful to talk about how influential her work was/is. Is it popular? Is the movement popular? How have other scholars responded to her work? It seems as though "Why Women Need The Goddess" is her most influential work, you could even create a subsection specifically devoted to that work. Explain it in a little more detail and talk about how other people have read it. There is a quote in your sandbox about religion. If you expand on that, that could be another major theme to talk about! Feminist theology is very interesting, and you could link Carol P. Christ to that in relation to other feminist theologists. I'm also curious about how you would link her to the History of Feminism page? Good work so far! KhaliaN (talk) 00:46, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

Peer Review 2
Hi, It looks like you've found some great sources to strengthen this article. There are a couple of sections that I think would be really important to add. First, I would love to see some more information about the key arguments/theories that came out of her essays, or perhaps some themes she covers. Why was her work important? Was she the first one to make these arguments?

I agree with the first reviewer that it would be great to see more about the influence she has had, and I think the first reviewer provided some great prompts for that. And what is the purpose of her pilgrimages? Is this a way of empowering women? Could it be considered feminist activism?

I think it's a little strange that she was born in 1945, but her biography starts in 1978. What were some early experiences that might have influenced her, or inspired her? What is her educational background?

There is a sentence in the original article that talks about her anthologies representing diverse feminist, religious perspectives. I wonder if this suggests any intersectionality to her work, or advocacy to represent diverse (and maybe marginalized) voices.

I hope that gives you a good starting point, good luck! Teagan999 (talk) 06:38, 7 November 2019 (UTC)

Instructor Feedback. Note: This article has received three peer reviews.
You made a good start but there is lots more to do. You were one of the people who had the disadvantage of having to start before hearing my own lecture – not that I can devote that much time to Christ, since I am trying to cover the whole movement of religious feminism in the 1970s USA. But here is some more material on Christ that you can use for the article. She is one of the world’s most influential THEALOGIANS (note the “A” – instead of the usual theologians, the term usually used for talking about a God who is imagined as male; Christ imagines Goddess as female). You can find accessible and useful information about theology at: https://www.encyclopedia.com/environment/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/thealogy Not everyone writes about Christ in terms of thealogy though. Here are some recent things about her work and ideas (that you can cite) that talk about theology: RAPHAEL, MELISSA. 2017. “Reflections on Theology from an Anglo-Jewish Feminist Perspective.” Tikkun (Duke University Press) 32 (4): 58–61. https://search-ebscohost-com.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lfh&AN=127122588&site=eds-live&scope=site. Also see this interview with Christ: “Interview with Carol P. Christ.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion (Indiana University Press) 33, no. 1 (Spring 2017): 137–52. doi:10.2979/jfemistudreli.33.1.12. Both of these were spurred by a book she co-wrote with Judith Plaskow – they have worked together a lot and you should make sure to link them together (that is link their Wikipedia articles). These things should also help with the biographical information that some of your peer reviewers are asking for. Then there is also this: Messina-Dysert, Gina. “Women and Blogging: An Exercise in the Thealogy of Carol Christ.” Journal of Religion & Popular Culture 23, no. 2 (July 2011): 155–65. doi:10.3138/jrpc.23.2.155. You can use those things to talk about how important she is. It’s true that the “why women need the goddess” article is hugely influential. The original publication is: Carol Christ, "Why Women Need the Goddess," Heresies 5 (1978) – and it might even be worth saying something about the journal in which it appeared, namely Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics which was put out by the Heresies Collective, New York City, 1977 – 1992. Michelle Meagher (in Women’s and Gender Studies) is a specialist on and has written various articles about the collective and the journal and it might not be going too far afield to look at some of that, because one of the main reasons the Christ article became so well known in the first place is that it was published in that journal. Make sure to link to the Heresies article in Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heresies:_A_Feminist_Publication_on_Art_and_Politics). This article was so important that she published a 25 years after reconsideration in which she doubled down on and expanded her arguments: Carol Christ, "Why Women, Men and Other Living Things Still Need the Goddess” Feminist Theology 20 (2012): 242 - 255. You will notice that someone named Gimbutas is there as a link at the bottom of Christ’s page. That is really important. The reference is to Marija Gimbutas (1921 - 1994), an archeologist of the Paleolithic and Neolithic (c.6500 - 4000 BCE) in the Balkans/SE Europe and Asia Minor and author of Gods and Goddesses of Old Europe (1974 - reissued 1982 as Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe), The Language of the Goddess (1989) and The Civilization of the Goddess (1991). Christ bases most of her own ideas about the history of Goddess worship on the work of Gimbutas. For a very long time most scholars and academics considered those ideas to be highly suspect, but recently there has been a shift towards acceptance of Gimbutas and therefore of Christ. This December 2017 audio broadcast with Carol Christ and others describes in a clear synthetic way the arguments of Marija Gimbutas (https://www.blogtalkradio.com/voicesofthesacredfeminine/2017/12/28/marija-gimbutas-vindicated-wcarol-christ-miriam-dexter#.WjAeCYufBpM.facebook) and also gives you an excellent sense of Christ. I don’t think there is a link to the Ariadne Institute, which is run by Christ from her home in Greece, and which specializes in Goddess-centered sacred tours and pilgrimages. It’s a nice idea from De Seguin that the tours themselves might be a form of feminist activism. They should be discussed. Here is the website (https://www.goddessariadne.org/).--FeliceLifshitz (talk) 01:46, 14 November 2019 (UTC)FeliceLifshitz