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Mara Lynn Keller (Ph.D., Philosophy,
Yale University, 1971) is Director of the
Women's Spirituality M.A. and Ph.D. programs
in Philosophy and Religion at CIIS. A wholistic
philosopher, thealogian, and international
lecturer, she is a scholar and ritualist
of the Eleusinian Mysteries of Demeter and
Persephone, and has published articles on
the Goddess civilization of ancient Crete,
the new field of archaeomythology, and Rosen
Method Bodywork and Movement. Formerly at
San Francisco State University, she co-founded
and directed the Global Peace Studies program
in addition to teaching philosophy and women's
studies.
In keeping with her goals of balancing
spirit, mind, and body, she is a Rosen Method
bodywork practitioner and movement teacher.
As an activist for peace and social justice
since the 1960's, Mara has organized and
advocated for civil rights, affirmative
action in higher education, women's reproductive
rights, the prevention of violence against
women and children, the formation of the
Green Party in California, and peace for
war-torn peoples around the world. Mara
has been a key organizer of several important
conferences, including the First International
Minoan Celebration of Partnership in Crete
(1992); Californians in Dialogue for
the Common Good, sponsored by the California
Council for the Humanities (1992); and From
the Realm of the Ancestors: Language of
the Goddess, sponsored by CIIS (1998);
and she co-produced the Jennifer Berezan
Ritual Concert, Returning to the Mother
of Us All, also sponsored by CIIS (2000).
In addition, she has led educational tours
for CIIS and the International Women's Studies
Institute in Greece and Turkey: Aegean
Women's Studies, Women Across the Millennia:
5000 Years of Women's Culture and History
in Greece, and Anatolia: Land of
the Mothers. She is the creator of the
Women's
Spirituality Journeys, and with other
CIIS faculty has co-led educational tours
to Greece, Turkey and other countries.
Articles by Mara Keller:
“The Eleusinian Mysteries of Demeter and Persephone: Fertility, Sexuality, and Rebirth.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Spring 1988, Vol.4, # 1, pp. 27-54.
Part I
Part II
"The Interface of Archaeology and
Mythology: A Philosophical Evaluation of
the Gimbutas Paradigm" (in two parts)
in Joan Marler, ed. From the Realm of
the Ancestors: An Anthology in Honor of
Marija Gimbutas (Manchester CT: Knowledge,
Ideas, Trends, Inc. 1997).
Part I
Part II
"Crete
of the Mother Goddess: Communal rituals
and sacred art" in ReVision:
Winter 1998; 20, 3; p. 12-16.
Goddesses
Around the World. Published by Common
Ground: Resources for Body, Mind and Spirit,
The Woman Issue, Issue 113, Fall 2002.
Women's
Spirituality Program
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