Definitions

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  • noun The study of or reflection upon the feminine divine from a feminist viewpoint.

Etymologies

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From Ancient Greek θεά (thea, "goddess") +‎ -logy.

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Examples

  • Does this also exclude all goddess worshipers since “theology” is often distinguished, in goddess circles, from “thealogy”?

    Limitations of the First Amendment | Mind on Fire 2010

  • I've been berating myself for years now for sliding out of regular ritual, and just writing and reading about thealogy.

    News from the House of Sticks - 2009

  • I've been berating myself for years now for sliding out of regular ritual, and just writing and reading about thealogy.

    News from the House of Sticks - 2009

  • Again, I'm talking about women's ability to develop philosophical systems of thought, to create thealogy, and to produce the incredible works of scholarship that is the great lesbian radical feminist renaissance.

    Women's Space 2008

  • a research center dedicated to charting and further developing the fields of thealogy, deasophy, and their relationship to feminist theory and praxis.

    UUpdates - All updates 2010

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