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Mara Lynn Keller, PhD (Philosophy, Yale University), is Professor Emerita of Philosophy, Religion, and Women's Spirituality at the California Institute of Integral Studies.  She is a feminist philosopher, Goddess thealogian, specialist on the Eleusinian Mysteries of Demeter and Persephone,  and the author of numerous articles and book chapters  on the Eleusinian Mysteries, Matricultural Crete, and Women’s Spirituality. These include "The Ritual Path of Initiation into the Eleusinian Mysteries," "Ancient Crete of the Earth Mother Goddess: Sacred Arts and Communal Ritual;" "Goddesses around the World," "Violence against Women and Children in Religious Scriptures and in the Home," "Women's Spirituality and Higher Education," “Holy Lady Wisdom, in Anatolia, Land of the Mothers,” and “Divine Mistress of Nature, Plant, and Animals: An Ecofeminist Perspective.” She believes that "The Freedom of Religion to worship Goddess is a social justice issue!" -- a message she delivered to the Parliament of the World's Religions at the Women's Plenary in 2015. As Program Director of Women's Spirituality at CIIS from 1998-2008, she co-produced dozens of special events, including conferences, concerts, and art exhibitions featuring women's sacred arts and scholarship, including a joint art exhibition with CERES Gallery in New York on Ineffable/Woman: A Bi-Coastal Conversation, and Women’s Spirituality Sacred Journeys to many countries. She is committed to embodied spirituality and multicultural eco-social justice. 

Mara's CV

• Goddesses Around the World
• The Eleusinian Mysteries of Demeter and Persephone
• Goddess Spirituality
• Implications of Sacred Pleasure for Philosophy
• Demeter and Persephone
• The Myriad Faces, Marvelous Powers, and Thealogy of Greek Goddesses
• Partnership-in-motion: Rosen Method Movement
• Women's Spirituality and Higher Education 
• Rosen Method Bodywork - Spiritual Dimensions
• Divine Mistresses of Nature, Plants, and Animals in Ancient Greece: A Spiritual Ecofeminist Perspective
• Violence Against Women and Children in Religious Scriptures and in the Home
• The Ritual Path of Initiation Into the Eleusian Mysteries
• Crete of the Mother Goddess: Communal Rituals and Sacred Art
• The Interface of Archaelogy and Mythology: A Philosophical Evaluation of the Gimbutas Paradigm
• "Front Porch": Mara Keller and Carol Christ in Conversation
• "Marion Rosen at 97" -- an interview by Mara Keller and Sara Webb
• Archaeomythology as Academic Field and Methodology: Bridging Science and Religion, Empiricism and Spirituality
• Bringing Goddess Worshipping Cultures of Prehistoric Europe Alive - A Conversation with Mary Mackey

Professor Emerita and WSE co-founder Mara Keller and WSE chair Annette Williams were interviewed for KPFA’s radio program Women’s Magazine by the show’s founder and producer Lisa Dettmer. Women’s Magazine is a weekly hour of programming that presents and discusses women’s lives and issues globally and locally from a radical, multiracial, feminist, mujerist, womanist perspective. Listen to the interview. (2022)

Professor Mara Keller delivers Parliament Keynote Address: Freedom of Religion to Worship Goddess is a Social Justice Issue!

“An Emerging Paradigm” with Charlene Spretnak and Susan Moulton. Language of the Goddess: From the Realm of the Ancestors. Women’s Spirituality, CIIS, conference.

Mara Lynn Keller, Interview in “Foremothers of Women’s Spirituality and their Living Wisdom for Today.” Women’s Spirituality Online Resource Center. Interviews by Vajra MA. 2018.

Mara Keller and Donna Reed speak about the film "Signs Out of Time: The Story of Archaeologist Marija Gimbutas" with Sandy Miranda on her KPFA show, "Women, Spirit, and Peace" (December 29, 2003).