{"id":415,"date":"2005-04-20T14:28:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-20T14:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=415"},"modified":"2005-04-20T14:28:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-20T14:28:00","slug":"415","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=415","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

“Goddess of the North”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Plans are underway to create a huge goddess figure<\/a> next to a northern British highway. Ironically, the material to scupt her will be the overburden (“mining spoil”) removed from an open-pit coal mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Goddess of the North” Plans are underway to create a huge goddess figure next to a northern British highway. 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Clifton","date":"December 27, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"First, although this is not directly about \"the Goddess movement,\" I want to point out the blogging that Aidan Kelly has been doing, particularly about the history of contemporary Paganism in America, at his Patheos blog, Including Paganism. Another resource is Dancing with Gaia, a video subtitled \"Earth Energy, Sacred\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"American religion\"","block_context":{"text":"American religion","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=american-religion"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gaiadancing.com\/images\/gaia_dancing_dvdcopySm.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7356,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7356","url_meta":{"origin":415,"position":4},"title":"Quick, Download this Paper Now","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"July 26, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Israeli scholar of Paganism has published a paper on \"Connecting British Wicca with Radical Feminism and Goddess Spirituality during the 1970s and 1980s: The Case Study of Monica Sj\u00f6\u00f6\" in the Journal of Contemporary Religion. It is currently available as a free download. Here is the abstract: This article attempts\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Britain\"","block_context":{"text":"Britain","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=britain"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11666,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11666","url_meta":{"origin":415,"position":5},"title":"The Morrigan, Therapy, and Female Self-Narration on Social Media","author":"Chas S. 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