Carol P. Christ is a feminist and eco-feminist and a pioneer in the Goddess movement. Her essay "Why Women Need the Goddess" delivered at the Great Goddess Re-emerging Conference in 1978 has been reprinted scores of times. She holds a Ph.D. from Yale in Religious Studies and is author of She Who Changes, Rebirth of the Goddess, Odyssey with the Goddess, Laughter of Aphrodite, and Diving Deep and Surfacing; she is co-editor of the widely used anthologies Womanspirit Rising and Weaving the Visions. She has taught at Harvard Divinity School, Pomona College, Columbia University, San Jose State, and California Institute of Integral Studies where she currently is Adjunct Professor offering courses over the internet in the Women's Spirituality Program. In 1987 she resigned a tenured postion and moved to Greece where she became a citizen in 2002. She is trying to save the wetlands of her beloved island working with Friends of Green Lesbos and World Wildlife Fund--Greece. Though Ariadne Institute she offers Goddess Pilgrimage tours to Crete twice a year.

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