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Casting the Circle: A Women's Book of Ritual
by Diane Stein
from Crossing Press

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• If You Have Never Done Circle
  If you have never participated in a cirle ritual. This book is full of info on what to expect.

• Wonderful book on Dianic Wicce
  I can't believe some of the reviews here. Diane Stein is a Dianic Witch. That's a woman-only tradition and we are usually well versed in Herstory, which is an entire field of study separate from the lies your teachers tell you. She needn't cite evidence of the ancient matriarchies because we've all read them. That isn't what this book is about. There are other sources - Elizabeth Gould Davis, Barbara G. Walker, Marija Gimbutas to name a few - for that.
  Nor is the goal of this book to include men, or... more info

• Eh.
  I bought this book hoping for something new, a fresh perspective on Goddess Spirituality. I guess I got it, though it wasn't anything like what I thought. The author's statements are not shown to be backed up by any research, and her tiresome use of slashes is bugging me. She speaks often of consequence, and doesn't really explain the term as she is using it. She speaks at the reader, not to you, and she sounds like she is writing a documentary on women's lives. She makes very generalized statements that... more info

• a useful reference
  This would be a useful reference to add to your bookshelf. The author makes many claims without listing any source material, and I could certainly wish for more information on some of her historical statements ("women invented...") but I fortunately did not buy the book as a history reference for civilization.

  This book is a useful reference for Dianic, or feminyst Wicca. It nicely summarizes the (less extreme) views of Dianic Wicca, concentrating on the Goddess alone, but without neccesarily denigrating... more info

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