Marguerite Rigoglioso [pronounced

REGAL-yo-zo], Ph.D., has delivered a James C. Loeb Classical lecture at Harvard University on The Cult of Divine Birth in Ancient Greece. She teaches on women and religion at Dominican University of California, the California Institute of Integral Studies, and the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. Her pioneering research on female deities and women’s religious leadership in the ancient Mediterranean world and beyond has appeared in anthologies and journals, including Feminist Theology, The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, Societies of Peace, She Is Everywhere, Trivia, and the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, where her paper on the cult of Demeter and Persephone in Sicily received an honorable mention for the New Scholar Award.  She is also the editor of Where to Publish Articles on Women’s Studies, Feminist Religious Studies, and Feminist/Womanist Topics.

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Presentations by Marguerite Rigoglioso, Ph.D.

The following presentations may be tailored to anywhere from half-hour to two-hour time slots, including discussion. Most have accompanying powerpoint or slide images. For more information on any title, or to book a presentation, email info@cultofdivinebirth.com.

• The cult of divine birth in Ancient Greece

• Oracular priestesses of Dodona and Delphi

• The priestess in ancient Greece

• Bees, priestesses, and prophecy in Graeco-Roman antiquity

• The African, matriarchal, Amazonian roots of Athena

• Athena and miraculous birth at the foundation of Athens

• Hera, Zeus, Heracles, Io, and miraculous birth

• Artemis, the nymphs, and virgin birth

• The Pleiades and prophecy in Graeco-Roman antiquity

• Mary: Dedicated priestess of virgin birth

• Women's sacred use of psychotropic substances in antiquity

• The science of parthenogenesis

• In search of the Libyan Amazons: Evidence from history, archaeology, and ethnography

• The cult of Demeter and Persephone in Sicily

• The rape of the lake:  The goddess and ecofeminist history of Lake Pergusa, Sicily

• The history of the Goddess from "prehistory" to the present

• Matriarchy: A social paradigm of peace and sustainability

• The Divine Feminine in Judaism and Christianity

• Mary Magdalene: Priestess or prostitute?

• The Virgin Mary: Goddess of the West

• Holy Sophia: Goddess of wisdom

• The history of the labyrinth as sacred female symbol

• The sacred yoni: The history of the vagina/vulva/womb as female symbol of empowerment

• The history of the women's spirituality movement

• The esoteric thought of Matilda Joslyn Gage

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