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S/HE: An International Journal of Goddess Studies (Volume 5 Number 1, 2026)

Published by Mago Books

June 2026

ISSN 2693-9363

A total of 170 pages

Citation: S/HE: An International Journal of Goddess Studies Volume 5 Number 1 (2026)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION

POETRY

“Trapped Flesh” by Leonore Wilson

“Persephone” by Leonore Wilson

“Looking for Hekate” by Marna Hauk

ESSAYS

“The Goddess as Regeneratrix in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Era” by Helen Benigni, Ph.D.

“Goddesses in Comparison: Shekhinah, Kali, and the Woman of the Apocalypse” by Mary Ann Beavis Ph.D.

“Goddess Spirituality and Matrifocal Families: Empowering Women and Reducing Systemic Patriarchal Oppressions” by Blythe A. Collier, Ph.D.

“Grail Imagery and the Heroine’s Journey in Princess Mononoke: Sacred Symbolism in an Anime Classic” by Mary Ann Beavis Ph.D.

PROGRAMMATIC ESSAY

“Why the World Needs Creatrix Studies?” by Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Ph.D.

BOOK REVIEWS

“Grace Ji-Sun Kim, When God Became White: Dismantling Whiteness for a More Just Christianity,” reviewed by Bernon Lee

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Mago Academy’s Creatrix Studies Programs

CONTRIBUTORS

PURCHASE AND CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS


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S/HE: An International Journal of Goddess Studies (Volume 4 Number 1-2, 2025)

Published by Mago Books

November 20 2025

ISSN 2693-9363

A total of 141 pages

Citation: S/HE: An International Journal of Goddess Studies Volume 4 Number 1-2 (2025)


Table of Contents

EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION

POETRY AND ART

“Message from Mother” by Carol Lynn Pearson

“Children of Our Dreams, We Are With You” by Carolyn Lee Boyd

“Penthesilea” by Susan Hawthorne

 “Art and Crafting as an Invocation to the Goddess” by Andrea Redmond

ARTICLES

“Enchantment, Vitality and Agency: A Posthuman Autoethnographic Critique of the Willendorf Goddess” by Clare Lesley Hughes, Ph.D.

“Sister Water: An Eco-thealogical Reflection on Animism in the Bible” by Mary Ann Beavis, Ph.D.

“Decolonizing Alevism: Reclaiming Sha, the Eternal Mother — A Gendered Indigenous Perspective on Femininity, Divinity, and the Sacred Cycle of Alevi Faith” by Dilşa Deniz, Ph.D.

BOOK REVIEWS

“Lila Moore’s Screen Dance as a Rite of Passage” reviewed by Helen Benigni, Ph.D.

“Carla Ionescu’s She Who Endures: The Cult and Iconography of Artemis of Ephesus,” reviewed by Kaarina Kailo, Ph.D.

“Kaarina Kailo, Sauna Culture, Sweat and Spirituality: On the Architectonics and Cosmology of Sacred Space” reviewed by Elizabeth Ann Bartlett, Ph.D.

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Mago Academy’s Creatrix Studies Program

Call for Papers for the 2026 S/HE Divine Studies Conference

CONTRIBUTORS

PURCHASE AND CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS


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S/HE is accepting reviews of scholarly books in the field of Goddess Studies. Books must have been published approximately within the last 3 years. Authors may solicit book reviews of recent publications from qualified arm’s-length reviewers. At this time, authors are asked to provide copies of their relevant publications in electronic form; likewise, publishers may submit books for review in electronic form.

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Mission Statement

S/HE: An International Journal of Goddess Studies is a web-based, peer-reviewed international scholarly journal committed to the academic exploration, analysis and interpretation, from a range of disciplinary perspectives, of Goddesses and the Female Divine in all religions, traditions, and cultures, to be ancient, historical, or contemporary. The journal is a multi-disciplinary forum for the publication of feminist scholarship in Goddess Studies and for discussion, comparison, and dialogue among scholars of differing feminist perspectives. 



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